Focusing on the theme of forgiveness, this book offers guidance on overcoming past traumas and the pain inflicted by others. It shares personal insights from the author's journey through childhood and adolescence, emphasizing the importance of self-love and gratitude, particularly for one’s children. Readers are encouraged to find healing and release resentment, ultimately leading to a more fulfilling life.
THE SEQUEL TO THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLER DRAWING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAINFrom the author of the world's most popular drawing instruction manual Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this new book helps you discover a new way of drawing and problem solving.Betty Edwards reveals the role our dominant eye plays in how we perceive, create, and are seen by those around us. Research shows that much like being right-handed or left-handed, each of us has a dominant eye, corresponding to the dominant side of our brain - either verbal or perceptual. Once you learn the difference and try your hand at the simple drawing exercises, you'll gain fresh insights into how you perceive, think, and create. You'll learn how to not just look but truly see.Generously illustrated throughout, Drawing on the Dominant Eye offers a remarkable guided tour through art history, psychology, and the creative process; a must-read for anyone looking for a richer understanding of our art, our minds, and ourselves.Praise for Betty Edwards' Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain:'Hands down the best and most life-enhancing thing I've done in lockdown' India Knight'A guide to enhancing creativity and artistic confidence' Independent
Millions of people have learned to draw using the methods of Dr. Betty Edwards. Now, in an essential companion to her bestselling classic, Edwards offers readers the key to mastering this art form: guided practice in their newfound creative abilities.Here are forty new exercises that cover each of the five basic skills of drawing. Each practice session includes a brief explanation and instructional drawings, suggestions for materials, sample drawings, and blank pages for the reader's own drawings. Also provided in this spiral-bound workbook is a pullout viewfinder, a crucial tool for effective practice. While The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain focused primarily on portrait drawing with pencil, this workbook gives readers experience in various subject matter-still life, landscape, imaginative drawing-using alternative mediums such as pen and ink, charcoal, and conté crayon. For all those who are taking a drawing class, who have already received instruction through a book or course, or who prefer to learn by doing, this volume of carefully structured "homework" offers the perfect opportunity to reinforce and improve their skills and expand their repertoire.
" Betty Edwards offers her readers an even more stimulating reward. She believes that we are all capable of genuine creativity and that there are simple, basic techniques we can use to stimulate artistic self-expression and release our true creative potential in all areas of our life. Whether the end result is a work of art, an original idea, or an innovative solution to a business problem, the benefits are enormous."--BOOK JACKET.
Millions of people have learned to draw using the methods of Dr. Betty Edwards's bestseller The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Now, much as artists progress from drawing to painting, Edwards moves from black-and-white into color. This new guide distills the enormous existing knowledge about color theory into a practical method of working with color to produce harmonious combinations.Using techniques tested and honed in her five-day intensive color workshops, Edwards provides a basic understanding of how to see color, how to use it, and-for those involved in art, painting, or design-how to mix and combine hues.Including more than 125 color images and exercises that move from simple to challenging, this volume explains how see what is really there rather than what you know in your mind about colored objectsperceive how light affects color, and how colors affect one anothermanipulate hue, value, and intensity of color and transform colors into their oppositesbalance color in still-life, landscape, figure, and portrait paintingunderstand the psychology of colorharmonize color in your surroundings While we recognize and treasure the beautiful use of color, reproducing what we see can be a challenge. Accessibly unweaving color's complexity, this must-have primer is destined to be an instant classic.
A brand-new edition of the world,s most widely used drawing instruction book, expanded and updated with more than 50 per cent new material. If you enjoy sketching but feel stuck at a childlike level, this classic handbook will give you the drawing skills you have always wanted. If you are already drawing as a professional artist, it will improve your confidence and deepen your artistic perception. As well as giving detailed advice on how to draw anything you want - including ways to step from black-and-white into colour - Edwards exploits recent developments in brain research to show how drawing skills can be used in the corporate world, in education, and even in problem-solving. Since it first appeared more than 20 years ago, this book has helped millions of people perfect their drawing skills. It can work for you, too.
A workbook of 40 exercises to accompany the acclaimed drawing guide.
Betty Edwards promovierte in Kunsterziehung und Wahrnehmungspsychologie und war Professorin an der California State University in Los Angeles. Heute hält sie Vorträge an Universitäten und Kunsthochschulen.
V publikaci osvětluje Betty Edwardsová další kousek skládačky k pochopení lidské kreativity a odhaluje roli, kterou hraje naše dominantní oko v tom, jak vnímáme, tvoříme a vidíme svět okolo nás. Výzkumy ukazují, že stejně jako používáme více pravou nebo levou ruku, každý z nás má také dominantní jedno oko, které odpovídá dominantní straně našeho mozku jedno je verbální, druhé je vizuální. Jakmile se naučíte rozdíl a vyzkoušíte si jednoduchá kreslicí cvičení, získáte nový pohled na to, jak vnímáte, přemýšlíte a tvoříte. Dozvíte se, jak se nejen dívat, ale především, jak skutečně vidět. Pozoruhodná výprava dějinami umění, psychologie a tvůrčího procesu, velkoryse ilustrovaná vizuálními příklady, je nezbytným čtením pro každého, kdo hledá bohatší pochopení vizuálního umění, lidské mysli a kreativity.
