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.
