- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: NEW WORLD LIBRARY (Sep 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1577312244
- ISBN-13: 978-1577312246
- Product Dimensions: 22.7 x 18.7 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 413 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #132,403 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Library Journal
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.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From the Author
This book represents over 30 years of my life and took three years to write. I use and teach Drawing as a Sacred Activity as one way to help myself and my students to find balance in a changing world. When you engage drawing as the sacred activity it is meant to be, you become an explorer with an open heart and an open mind. You, like each one of us, looks out at the world through your own point of view and because your view of the world is totally unique you have a certain responsibility to become more aware of the many different influences that color your point of view. The drawing exercises in this book are designed to help you get to know yourself inside and out. Clearly, drawing is a powerful and natural way for everyone to find balance, create meaning, discover purpose, explore feelings, and experience the wonder and fulfillment that life offers to each and every one of us. As an added bonus, you also produce something tangible to share your journey with family, friends, and community! And finally, because Life is Eternal and Infinite in Essence, there is no fence limiting the discoveries you can make through drawing. Thank you for reading these words and contemplating the value of drawing as a sacred activity in your own life.
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Every day in every city on the planet people in drawing classes gather around arrangements of flowers, drapery, or a live person-and draw! Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent book,
By Patricia J. Crane, Ph.D. "www.healyourlifetea... (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Drawing As a Sacred Activity: Simple Steps to Explore Your Feelings and Heal Your Consciousness (Paperback)
Heather Williams has written an excellent book that guides the artist and nonartist alike into the deeper realms of emotional experience. She offers unique insights into seeing, feeling, and intuiting both our inner and outer worlds. The nondominant hand exercises bring out deep wisdom in a powerful way. I highly recommend this book.
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Heal At Home,
By Sue Beck (Anaheim, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Drawing As a Sacred Activity: Simple Steps to Explore Your Feelings and Heal Your Consciousness (Paperback)
Heather Williams has written a book for the private person who wants to increase self knowledge in the privacy of their own home, and at their own speed. The sequence of information allows for the reader to browse and do exercises as they are moved. It gives theory blended in with practical suggestions on how to do your own self discovery, one self determined picture at a time. She is sensitive, thorough in her explanations, and offers her own examples so that the reader is reassured that this is a book for everyone,rather than for acclaimed artists. Ms. Williams stresses that everyone has artistic ability and she shows us inroads to discovery of our unique expression of the art within each of us. This book is more than a self-help manual-- it is a self discovery map for the seeker of self knowledge.
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Nurture you own beauty,
By Dianne Seale, Ph.D. (Waynesboro, Tennessee United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Drawing As a Sacred Activity: Simple Steps to Explore Your Feelings and Heal Your Consciousness (Paperback)
Creativity is the wellspring of our own innate beauty and connection to Creator. Williams gives us simple but powerful tools to nurture, support, and express the Creative Force within each one of us. The nondominant hand work draws out amazing insights into how we can birth our own most powerful Self. Most of all, she gently guides us to create lovely expressions of our Spirit which can utterly transform self-image. Simply the best guide for spiritual self expression available today!
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