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How to rediscover the joy of drawing | Psyche Guides

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is an artist, researcher, and educator. She is associate professor in art education at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has lectured and led workshops on art and cognition internationally, and wrote the book Drawing Thought: How Drawing Helps Us Observe, Discover and Invent (2022). is an artist, researcher, and educator. She is associate professor in art education at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has lectured and led workshops on art and cognition internationally, and wrote the book Drawing Thought: How Drawing Helps Us Observe, Discover and Invent (2022). Listen to this article 26 minute listen Picture a young child with a crayon or piece of chalk in hand and a blank surface in front of them: paper, a sidewalk or (perhaps unfortunately) a wall. Think of their pure joy at making their mark on the world. There is something inherently thrilling about tracing your gestures on a blank page and watching it become something. A curved line suggests a hil

Picture a young child with a crayon or piece of chalk in hand and a blank surface in front of them: paper, a sidewalk or (perhaps unfortunately) a wall. Think of their pure joy at making their mark on the world. There is something inherently thrilling about tracing your gestures on a blank page and watching it become something. A curved line suggests a hillside, a human profile or a bird in flight. A smudge turns a flat mark into a three-dimensional form. Most of us felt this as children: the simple pleasure of drawing, the sense that the hand could conjure. The good news is that this…

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