Review
"Teaches how to make your mark, how to be accepting of success and failure, how to experiment to uncover new areas of creativity, how to overcome the fear of getting started, how to love yourself through what you create but most of all it urges us all to JUST DO IT. The results are not as important as the creative process itself." --The3rdi magazine for working women
"I LOVE YOUR BOOK! You are very encouraging . . . You show that drawing demands we know ourselves as creative beings." --Diana Korzenik, former chair, art education, Massachusetts College of Art Boston
Cat Bennett suggests that drawing, or artistic activity generally, is like meditation and the spiritual aspects of yoga. It creates a single point of focus and when one is fully engaged the distractions of the outside world are ignored. For a period the artist is in the zone , as sportsmen call it, when nothing else matters and the mind is totally at one with the task in hand. --Martin P Wilson, Suite 101
"I LOVE YOUR BOOK! You are very encouraging . . . You show that drawing demands we know ourselves as creative beings." --Diana Korzenik, former chair, art education, Massachusetts College of Art Boston
Cat Bennett suggests that drawing, or artistic activity generally, is like meditation and the spiritual aspects of yoga. It creates a single point of focus and when one is fully engaged the distractions of the outside world are ignored. For a period the artist is in the zone , as sportsmen call it, when nothing else matters and the mind is totally at one with the task in hand. --Martin P Wilson, Suite 101
Product Description
Everyone can draw and everyone can meet the true creative self within through the practice of drawing. Using specific techniques, many drawn from yoga, the reader will learn how to enter the meditative state of presence in which we find creative connection and expressive confidence. The CONFIDENT CREATIVE shows how the practice of drawing can unblock creativity and create confidence. Drawing brings us fully into the present moment where we connect with peace when we open to inspiration and creativity. Through the yogic technique of one-pointed focus, observing the mind and changing our energy to the positive, we learn to overcome creative blocks with ease and make quantum leaps in our art and lives. Other drawing books focus on the end product, this one focuses on how drawing can bring us into our true creative selves. The CONFIDENT CREATIVE offers a wealth of visual inspiration through many examples of art from professional artists who have pushed the boundaries of drawing into creative expression. The CONFIDENT CREATIVE takes drawing into the realm of personal exploration and expression.
About the Author
Cat Bennett is an artist who has exhibited in Boston, New York, Montreal and Tokyo. She has been a professional illustrator for over twenty-five years with clients such as The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Time Magazine, Harcourt Brace, Houghton Mifflin and many others. She began her career at The National Film Board of Canada and later made short animations for CBC-Sesame Street, Nickelodeon-TV and various non-profit organizations. She teaches drawing as a way to meet the true creative self within.
