Betty Edwards "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brian" . How to unlock your hidden artistic talent.

1982 Fontana paperback publication in very good to fine condition.

Everyone has artistic talent and can be good at drawing - you only have to tune in to the creative side of your brain - the right side - and you will be able to draw accurate and imaginative portraits, landscapes and still lifes.

This book heightens your awareness of shape, colour and form and makes you see more clearly and intuitively, and, within, a remarkable short time, gives you the pleasure and satisfaction of being a competent artist.  It is divided into twelve sections :- 1. Drawing and the Art of Bicycle Riding.  2.  Expressing Yourself in Drawing: The Nonverbal Language of Art.   3.  Your Brain:  The Right and Left of It.  4. Crossing Over: Experienceing the Shift fro Left to Right.  5.  Drawing on Memories: Your History as an Artist.  6.  Getting Around Your Symbol Suystem: Meeting Edges and Contours.  7. Perceiving the Shape of a Space: The Positive Aspects of Negative Space.  8.  Branching Out in All Directions: Perspective in a New Mode.  9.  Fitting it All Together: To Place in Proportion.  10.  Facing Forward: Portrait Drawing With Ease.  11.  Moving Into the Third Dimension:  Seeing Light, Drawing Shade.  12.  The Zen of Drawing: Drawing Out the Artist Within.

It also has a Preface, Postscript: Teachers & Parents, Art Students, Glossary, Bibliography and Index.  

Illustrated on every page with sketches and examples of artwork.    It really is a brilliant book.