Heart-based right brain enrichment programs and early learning centers

By a Teacher

Six-year-old Kenny was a terrifically talented artist. He would race through his preschool writing and math workbooks so that he could spend hours and hours at the art table creating a single picture.

What he would finally produce was no less than a masterpiece. His attention to detail brought in aspects of shading, perspective and form that even adult artists struggle with.

Kenny spent a long time detailing faces, swords, clothing, daggers, roads, castles, coat of arm symbols, landscapes -- all the while telling an elaborate story with one picture.

When Kenny began PhotoEyeplay, he was excited. Here was an aspect of imagery that he had not yet experienced, and he loved it.

A few months later, when Kenny began to do the 3-D PhotoEyeplay imaging exercises, he surprised us with descriptions of what he saw in his mind, and how he could use this newfound ability.

He used 3-D imaging for shading. He would mentally picture his subject (a knight or a dragon) and then picture the sun. He would let the light shine on his subjects to see where the shadows would fall. He would then open his eyes and draw the shading.

He used 3-D imaging for movement. He would picture how a dragon would move, how it would rear up on its hind legs and breathe fire. Then he would "freeze frame" and spend quite a few concentrated minutes transferring the image to paper.

He used 3-D imaging to add texture and depth. In one picture, Kenny had the dragon's footprints leading up to his cave. They were dark and deep and very pronounced in one area, and then almost disappeared before actually going in to the cave.

When his teachers asked him about it, Kenny told them that the earth where the footprints were the most pronounced was where the soil was moist.

He used 3-D imaging to add more detail. He said, "When you look around, you don't see a blank white page -- every bit of the paper is used up!"

So when he had a blank white spot, he would go back to his "mental chalkboard" and look to see what was there in the void. As a result, Kenny's drawings became much more detailed.