Betty Edwards
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Description
This book is designed to help the reader gain access to right-brain functions, which affect artistic and creative abilities, by teaching drawing through unusual exercises designed to increase visual skills. It includes updates based on recent research about the brain's plasticity and the emerging significance of right-brain functioning. It offers new tools for identifying and solving life problems with the visual-thinking skills acquired through drawing....
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Description
Presents a set of exercises designed to release creative potential and tap into the special abilities of the right hemisphere of the brain, focusing on the five basic skills of drawing which include the perception of edges, spaces, relationships, lights and shadows, and the whole, or gestalt.
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Pub. Date
c2004
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You will learn to -- see what is really there rather than what you "know" in your mind about colored objects -- perceive how light affects color, and how colors affect one another -- manipulate hue, value, and intensity of color and transform colors into their opposites -- balance color in still-life, landscape, figure, and portrait painting -- understand the psychology of color -- harmonize color in your surroundings.
Pub. Date
1999.
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"The seven lessons in this video, presented by noted author and educator, Dr. Betty Edwards, will teach you the basic skills of drawing and will enhance your capacity for creativity... The video lessons are designed to be used in conjunction with the tools and materials in Dr. Edwards' Drawing on the right side of the brain portfolio, but this DVD will also work effectively as a stand-alone learning guide."--Container.
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