How To Draw

How I discovered the Artist’s Secret ® to Drawing

As an art teacher, I really now love teaching beginning children and adults how to draw. This has not always been the case.

 Something totally amazing happened to me in my 15th year of teaching art.

I was in my fifth year of teaching elementary art at St. Brigid‘s school. My previous years of teaching had been at the secondary level.

I will never forget an extraordinary experience I had while demonstrating how to draw to my fifth grade art class. I love drawing and was excellent in my ability to easily draw what I saw. My students always admired my drawings. At that time I was using standard art education methods, the kind that every book and video includes on how to draw for beginners. I told my students to “watch me draw a cat in my demonstration and do what I was doing.”

A short boy with blond hair and blue eyes standing on my right side, watched me draw the cat and said “oh no you’re not!”

All of the sudden, I had a student telling me that I didn’t know what I was doing. I was shocked! Everyone was always in awe of my talent when I demonstrated drawing. I could’ve told him to sit down and be quiet. But I did not do that. Instead I asked him a simple question. That short blonde haired boys answer set off a light bulb in my mind.