Bert Dodson

Keys to Drawing

Draw with Confidence and Creativity! Creativity occurs in action: It is not a trait; it is something you do. To be creative, you need to engage in the art-making process. When you are "in the flow," you shift out of the future and into the present, making connections, generating variations and surrendering to the process. Keys to Drawing With Imagination is a course for artists in how to take something, do something to it, and make something new. Best-selling author Bert Dodson, author of the best-selling Keys to Drawing, is back with fun techniques and mind-stretching strategies to get you drawing better and more imaginatively than you ever have before. In every section, he offers you basic guidelines that help you channel your creative energies in the right direction. Before you know it, you'll lose yourself in the process, enjoying the experience as you create something gratifying and worthwhile. The subjects covered in this hands-on book are as vast as the imagination itself. Through 36 exercises and 13 step-by-step demonstrations, you'll explore how to: Take your doodling from mindless to masterful Create your own reality by crumbling, melting or breaking objects Flip the familiar on its ear to create something utterly original Experiment with visual paradox and metaphor Tell vivid stories through the details in your drawings Play with patterns to create captivating compositions Build your drawings by borrowing ideas from different cultures Develop a theme in your work Along the way, Dodson offers you priceless advice on the creative process culled from his 60 years of drawing and teaching. For additional inspiration and encouragement, he even includes the work of well-known artists. So what are you waiting for? Grab this book and start drawing! You'll be amazed at what you can create.

Strategies and excercises for gaining confidence and enhancing your creativity

Keys to Drawing with Imagination

Andrea Stenn Stryer

When his family's yaks go missing, Kami, a young deaf Sherpa boy, sets off into the Himalaya Mountains alone to find them. Simultaneous.

Kami and the Yaks

Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw. In this book, Bert Dodson shares his complete drawing system—fifty-five "keys" that you can use to render any subject with confidence, even if you're a beginner. These keys, along with dozens of practice exercises, will help you draw like an artist in no time. You'll learn how to: • Restore, focus, map, and intensify • Free your hand action, then learn to control it • Convey the illusions of light, depth, and texture • Stimulate your imagination through "creative play"

Mahlon B. Hoagland

In the tradition of David Macaulay's The Way Things Work, this popular-science book--a unique collaboration between a world-renowned molecular biologist and an equally talented artist--explains how life grows, develops, reproduces, and gets by. Full color. From the Hardcover edition.

The Science Lover's Illustrated Guide to how Life Grows, Develops, Reproduces, and Gets Along

The Way Life Works

Willem Lange

When his father begins to bait a mouse trap, a young boy reminds him of a lesson the father taught him, "don't kill anything you don't intend to eat."

The White-Footed Mouse

An entertaining overview of biology outlines the sixteen key principles of life, the role of energy, the language of DNA, the theories of evolution, and the dynamics of growth. 50,000 first printing. Tour.

When a doctor saves his dog's life on Christmas Eve, a Vermont farmer begins his yuletide tradition of delivering a fruitcake to each of his neighbors in the village.

A Christmas Story

Favor Johnson

Noel Peattie

Cartoons offer a satiric look at the arms race, military spending, nuclear energy, U.S. foreign policy, the Contras, pollution, acid rain, and SDI

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