Drawing as a Sacred Activity: Simple Steps to Explore Your Feelings and Heal Your Consciousness
Williams combines her natural teaching abilities (she's a California high school instructor) with a lifetime devoted to art in this encouraging guide. Readers are urged to find sanctity in their drawing. Many exercises explore expressing feelings by drawing with the nondominant, less intellectual hand. Williams emphasizes, perhaps too frequently, that readers should be patient and gentle with themselves during their artistic explorations, and she reminds all-thumbs aspirants that "there's nothing wrong with stick figures." This accepting book is packed with dozens of exercises and hundreds of evocative drawings, thus favorably recalling Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way. Not to be used as an instructional drawing guide, this is recommended for all self-help collections.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.