About Instructor

Larraine Seiden

I am honored to be one of seven instructors worldwide certified by author Dr. Betty Edwards and Master DRSB Teacher Brian Bomeisler to teach their Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain method. Motivated by a desire to demystify art making, I have been teaching adults and K-12 students over the past fifteen years. Along the way, I earned a Masters of Art and Design Education from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and a Bachelors in Studio Art from California State University, East Bay (Hayward).

When I began teaching, I had many of the same questions that puzzled Betty Edwards early in her teaching career. How was it that my students could see the thing in front of them, but not be able to draw it? Why were my drawing demonstrations so clunky? I suspected drawing skills were not just for a talented few, but I lacked the tools to convince my students.

A few years into my teaching career my husband, long convinced he would never be able to draw, took the DRSB course. Finally, after many art classes in high school and college, this one taught him the drawing skills he had been looking for. I was intrigued and he urged me to give the Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain book a closer reading. Ah! Dr. Edwards showed so convincingly, that drawing was a skill that could be taught and learned. The key is for students to make that shift in perception, from what she calls L-mode to R-mode thinking. Eventually, I took the course and was impressed by the integrity of the method. I learned wonderfully straight forward techniques for teaching drawing and perceptual skills. And as an educator, I could see how valuable these basic tools could be to opening new ways of thinking and learning beyond art class.

I am grateful for the opportunity to have worked with Dr. Edwards and her son, Brian Bomeisler and to be welcomed to share their work. I look forward to teaching you how to draw and to access your creativity. Once you learn to consciously access right brain thinking (R-mode), you never know where it might take you.