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Form Drawing and Colouring : For Fun, Healing and Wellbeing

Form Drawing and Colouring : For Fun, Healing and Wellbeing

Author: Angela Lord
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Publication Date: 13 Jan 2017
ISBN-13: 9781907359781
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Description


Creative form drawing is a fascinating and meaningful artistic activity for health and wellbeing. It engages the right side of the brain through the flow of color, form, and movement. Form Drawing and Colouring: for Fun, Healing and Wellbeing offers space for personal creativity, with stunning colorful forms to stimulate originality. It aims be both calming and enlivening, and is a valuable aid to harmonizing body and soul.
Rather than "filling in the lines" as one would in a conventional coloring book, the reader is provided with forms in varying stages of completion to copy, experiment with, and develop. This approach offers more creative freedom, as the reader can choose at what level they wish to engage with the forms, be that relaxing drawing or intensely concentrated creation. Printed on high quality cartridge paper to ensure easy drawing.
This creative form drawing book features fourfold patterns of increasing challenge and complexity. It references Celtic, Moorish, Native American, and Buddhist patterns, and encourages the development of new forms. The forms have symmetry--balance between left and right, above and below--connecting center to periphery, providing stability and harmony.
The forms are rhythmic, having a pattern that moves in flowing shapes and lines. Other forms are organic, as drawing organically inspired forms such as flowers helps one experience nature's colors and designs. Flowers provide inspiring ideas for color combinations and for new forms.
Originally developed by Rudolf Steiner, creative form drawing is widely used in Waldorf-inspired education to support healthy child development and learning.
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CONTENTS Introduction: How To Use This Book; 86 pages of creative color forms, each sequenced for step-by-step drawing, culminating in twelve fourfold variations based on a coin. There is plenty of space on each page for your own work; and an afterword on creative form drawing.


Author Description


Angela Lord is a painter, interior color designer, muralist, and art therapist. She has taught in state and Steiner schools, and has worked extensively with adults.






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