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

Drawing on the Artist Within: An Inspirational and Practical Guide to Increasing Description Product Description 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 ! I SEE IT NOW! Everyone has experienced that joyful moment when the light flashes on -- the Ah-Ha! of . 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 , 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 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. About the Author 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. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1Creativity: The Chameleon ConceptWhat on earth is creativity? How can a concept be so important in human thinking, so crucial to human history, so dearly valued by nearly everyone yet be so elusive?Creativity has been studied, analyzed, dissected, documented. Educators discuss the concept as if it were a tangible thing, a goal to be attained like the ability to divide numbers or play the violin. Cognitive scientists, fascinated by creativity, have produced volumes of bits and pieces, offering tantalizing glimpses and hints, but have not put the parts together into an understandable whole. To date we still have no generally accepted definition of creativity -- no general agreement on what it is, how to learn it, how to teach it, or if, indeed, it can be learned or taught. Even the dictionary finesses definition with a single cryptic phrase: "creativity: the ability to create," and my encyclopedia avoids the difficulty altogether with no entry, even though another admittedly elusive concept, "intelligence," is allotted a full-length column of fine print. Nevertheless, books abound on the subject as seekers after creativity pursue a concept that seems paradoxically to recede at the same pace at which the pursuers on Treasure-Hunt NotesThe trail, fortunately, is at least marked with pointers to guide the chase. Letters and personal records, journals, eyewitness accounts, descriptions, and biographies are in abundance, gathered from creative individuals and their biographers over past centuries. Like clues in a treasure hunt, these notations spur the quest, even though (as in any good treasure hunt) they often seem illogical and indeed frequently contradict each other to confuse the themes and ideas in t About Us We want to provide you with the hottest deals on the internet. Every item we sell are ready to ship and most items ship within 24 hours during business days. We try to answer all questions within 24 hours Monday - Friday. Send us a eBay message, we are always here to help you. Payment Only Paypal Payments are accepted at this time, however you may utilize the tools within PayPal to pay via your credit card. Shipping Handling Time: We ship Next Business Day - Monday to Friday in most cases. Please understand that an occasional delay may occur. Domestic Shipping - Domestic Shipping takes typically takes 3-5 business days via our normal shipping carriers. All Domestic US to US shipping will be indicated as Standard Shipping during checkout. 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