Drawing from Within: Unleashing Your Creative Potential

The aim of this book is to answer questions such as how can we connect with our own innovation, how can we allocate the artist within. The author shows that drawing is a powerful means of self-expression.

It is a joy to be taught drawing by both the coeditor of MAD magazine and his daughter, a senior psychiatric social worker. One gets humor and insight, creative techniques and psychological support, and two interpretations of the word bonkers. In 14 chapters, these authors break all the rules and promise to turn even the most inhibited, artless person into someone who draws for the pure love of expression. This book is less mystical than Jeanne Carbonetti's The Zen of Creative Painting: An Elegant Design for Revealing Your Muse (LJ 7/99) and should find a very wide audience. Highly recommended for all collections.
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