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An artists' guide to the sources of creativity. A book about human sight, seeing, and about how the visual brain functions with reference to the acts of seeing and drawing. What are the physical (neurological) hindrances to clear sight? The newest research in visual perception and the brain as this applies to drawing. How creativity is accessed and nurtured. A manual, with a sequence of exercises in perception and in drawing. Spears explores how drawing involves the neurological process of vision as much as it does the movement of the pencil in the artist’s hand.Spears, an artist, instructor and poet, begins her first instructional book with a simple visual exercise, setting the tone for an interactive reading experience. Although the author acknowledges that some readers might not complete the drawing assignments, they nevertheless represent the heart and soul of the book.At its core, this is a drawing curriculum, and the book only fully comes to life when the reader takes pencil to paper. Spears is interested in the neurobiology of sight, frequently alluding to recent findings—most via functional magnetic resonance imaging—about what kinds of visual experiences make certain areas of the brain ignite with activity. “The visual brain sees,” Spears writes, “and sometimes loves what it sees and calls it ‘beautiful.’ ” That visual passion is hard-wired into our biology, she argues, and it is only the self-criticism, baggage, prejudices and assumptions we bring from the outside world that prevent us from translating that passion into art. The baggage, she says, is “around you and ready to encourage, discourage and generally interfere with your present efforts.” Spears’ heartening philosophy and approach are appealing and accessible (even if the neurological terminology gets a little weighty at times), and it’s easy to see... "An artists' guide to the sources of creativity. A book about human sight, seeing, and about how the visual brain functions with reference to the acts of seeing and drawing. What are the physical (neurological) hindrances to clear sight? The newest research in visual perception and the brain as this applies to drawing. How creativity is accessed and nurtured. A manual, with a sequence of exercises in perception and in drawing. Many quotations from artists and poets as well as neurologists. The artist at any level is persuaded into taking risks and making new choices. Many illustrations."May17 A completely original concept, this title challenges practical artists of every capability and art teachers as never before. It will make them rethink what they see, how they see it, even how they name it, as well as how they reproduce it.