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. 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.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!)* VerificationThrough 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.
Table of Contents:
CONTENTS
Preface
Part I A New Look at the Art of Seeing
1 Creativity: The Chameleon Concept
2 Drawing on Gleams from Within
3 Taking a Long Look at Creativity
4 Drawing on Definitions
Part II Making Thought Visible
5 Drawing on a Parallel Language
6 Making Telling Marks
7 Drawing Out Insight
8 Drawing on Intuition
9 Drawing on First Insight to Find the Question
10 Drawing Meaning from the Inside Out
Part III New Strategies for Thinking
11 Drawing Up the Rules of the Game
12 Drawing on New Points of View
13 Beaux Gestes: Drawing on Beautiful Gestures
14 Drawing at a Snail's Pace
15 Drawing on the Other Side of Our Assumptions
16 There Is More to Seeing than Meets the Eyeball
17 Taking a Sight on Reason, Ratios, and Relationships
18 Shadows that Light the Way
19 Drawing Close to the Magic Moment
20 Drawing Power from Within
Bibliography
Index
Dr. Betty Edwards is Professor of Art at California State University, Long Beach. Her original contributions to the art of drawing and creativity have reached far beyond the college classroom where she has taught for many years. Her work has been praised by a wide range of distinguished psychologists and educators, and she has conducted creativity seminars and workshops for leading businesses including IBM and General Electric.
Touchstone Books
Pub Date: April 06, 1987
0.61" H x 9.2" L x 7.42" W
256 pages
paperback