- Paperback: 112 pages
- Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S. (28 May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0823059723
- ISBN-13: 978-0823059720
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 360,657 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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By the author of "The Tao of Watercolor" and "The Zen of Creative Painting," this third book in her "Path of Painting" series offers artists of all levels a fresh approach to the art of drawing based on compelling Yoga principles:
- Body: Receiving, Feeling, Sensing, Touching
- Mind: Simplifying, Choosing
- Spirit: Expressing, Exploring, Loving
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The quote on the preceding page is from master teacher Robert Beverly Hale, who wrote both for and about his drawing students. Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you ask the average person to make an effort to produce a really, really bad drawing, he/she will definitely come up with something better than the drawings in this book, for, one thing is sure: the quality of the drawings in this book are very hard to match.
I fully agree with the first reviewer of this book. To begin with, the drawings are so poor that I am still not sure whether the author was making an experiment to test the readers' gullibilty before the printed page, or whether she actually believed that such drawings are of quality? I honestly cannot fathom how someone would dare present such awfully ugly drawings as a model to be used for "guidance"!
Further annoying is the author's constant use of names of painting masters (Matisse/Picasso, and more) for her own amazingly dreadful drawings, calling some of them "a study on Matisse's...." etc. etc.! In addition, her own incessant admiration of her own work with constant expressions like the "loveliness/beauty" of this drawing or that, or about "the power of beauty to heal" written under a dreadful drawing with just one pale ugly color that looks more like someone was sick over it.
While the author repeats how "all things are related, everything is one", her book demonstrates the exact opposite: her very titles and headings, borrowing words from yoga and zen, are completely unrelated to the content and actually distract from it, and, her drawings do not display ANY of the principles of balance and beauty she talks about and, due to their unbelievable ugliness, do a disservice to the few interesting points which she makes once in a while, and which you will find if you sift carefully through a lot of dross and completely ignore her titles/headings and classifications.
In order to get a crumb of benefit out of this book, you have to be extremely selective and very patient, because what is worthwhile in the end might be no more than a handful of pages. Besides, you have to have a strong stomach to take all those drawings.
If you really, really must have it, buy it used, as you will really, really regret having paid its full price!
I fully agree with the first reviewer of this book. To begin with, the drawings are so poor that I am still not sure whether the author was making an experiment to test the readers' gullibilty before the printed page, or whether she actually believed that such drawings are of quality? I honestly cannot fathom how someone would dare present such awfully ugly drawings as a model to be used for "guidance"!
Further annoying is the author's constant use of names of painting masters (Matisse/Picasso, and more) for her own amazingly dreadful drawings, calling some of them "a study on Matisse's...." etc. etc.! In addition, her own incessant admiration of her own work with constant expressions like the "loveliness/beauty" of this drawing or that, or about "the power of beauty to heal" written under a dreadful drawing with just one pale ugly color that looks more like someone was sick over it.
While the author repeats how "all things are related, everything is one", her book demonstrates the exact opposite: her very titles and headings, borrowing words from yoga and zen, are completely unrelated to the content and actually distract from it, and, her drawings do not display ANY of the principles of balance and beauty she talks about and, due to their unbelievable ugliness, do a disservice to the few interesting points which she makes once in a while, and which you will find if you sift carefully through a lot of dross and completely ignore her titles/headings and classifications.
In order to get a crumb of benefit out of this book, you have to be extremely selective and very patient, because what is worthwhile in the end might be no more than a handful of pages. Besides, you have to have a strong stomach to take all those drawings.
If you really, really must have it, buy it used, as you will really, really regret having paid its full price!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Beinng both a student of yoga and drawing for many years , I was delighted to come across this book. However - the drawings are so bad (really, really bad) that it made me question whether the author had actually done any of the exercises she suggested. Then I had a look at the titles of her other books.....The Tao of Watercolor, The Zen of Creative Painting and felt like she was just jumping onto the eastern philosophy bandwagon.
If you want to learn anything about drawing from someone else Betty Edwards still does it for me. If you want to learn anything about yoga.....practice it: and if you want to learn something about both: look inward's - you'll learn more than you will from this book.
If you want to learn anything about drawing from someone else Betty Edwards still does it for me. If you want to learn anything about yoga.....practice it: and if you want to learn something about both: look inward's - you'll learn more than you will from this book.
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After reading her two other fine books on the technique of watercolor and zen, I didn't think she could come up with another as good as they were,I was so pleasently surprised: "Yoga of Drawing" has surpassed both! Her lovely drawing and simple techniques are easy to understand and most pleasing to the sense of balance and spirit in the presentation of the printed word to the reader. The flow of the spirit and mind are merged together as one to carry one happily through all the pages one by one in the process of understanding. My warmest recommendations.
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