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Drawing on the Artist Within: An Inspirational and Practical Guide to Increasing Your Creative Powers
 
 

Drawing on the Artist Within: An Inspirational and Practical Guide to Increasing Your Creative Powers [Kindle Edition]

Betty Edwards
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AH-HA! I SEE IT NOW!

Everyone has experienced that joyful moment when the light flashes on -- the Ah-Ha! of creativity.

Creativity. It is the force that drives problem-solving, informs effective decision-making and opens new frontiers for ambition and intelligence. Those who succeed have learned to harness their creative power by keeping that light bulb turned on.

Now, Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the million-copy best-seller that proved all people can draw well just as they can read well, has decoded the secrets of the creative process to help you tap your full creative potential and apply that power to everyday problems. How does Betty Edwards do this? Through the power of drawing -- power you can harness to see problems in new ways.

Through simple step-by-step exercises that require no special artistic abilities, Betty Edwards will teach you how to take a new point of view, how to look at things from a different perspective, how to see the forest and the trees, in short, how to bring your visual, perceptual brainpower to bear on creative problem-solving.

You will learn how the creative process progresses from stage to stage and how to move your own problem-solving through these key steps:

* First insight

* Saturation

* Incubation

* Illumination (the Ah-Ha!)

* Verification

Whether you are a business manager, teacher, writer, technician, or student, you'll find Drawing on the Artist Within the most effective program ever created for tapping your creative powers. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of instructional drawings and the work of master artists, this book is written for people with no previous experience in art.

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Offers advice on how to make use of the functions of both sides of the brain to improve creativity and develop problem-solving abilities.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
I read this book as an optional "Directed Reading" for a course in Creative Problem-Solving with the University of Oklahoma. It is ironic that I had just completed all six of Frank Herbert's Dune novels just before beginning Drawing with all its exercises. My first thought was, "This is truly 'BeneGesserit' stuff!" The author guides the reader into total participation with the material and helps one to coax that much-suppressed "right brain" mode of perception and comprehension into awareness--and it is truly revelatory of the richness of one's immediate world which normally remains unexplored. Amazing it is, too, how one's skill in writing in images (i.e., drawing) improves with full interaction with the book. This is a good read, one which I suggest for those who would like to increase their awareness of the world around them and who would like to recapture some of the childlike wonder at the universe.
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Until "Drawing on the Artist Within" I was simply sketching for fun. Once I put into practice the things that Betty Edwards teaches I now make my living as an artist. Thanks Betty
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Good book 18 Jun 2011
By mdoher
Format:Kindle Edition
Good book - working my way through this at the moment...I do think that this book will appeal to some and be disliked by others. All I can say is that I like it.
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