Drawing the Light from within: Keys to Awaken Your Creative Power

by Judith Cornell

Children tackle creative projects fearlessly, with great imagination and verve. But as adults, inhibitions take hold and we get locked into a way of thinking that stops us from using our full potential at work an in our relationships. This book is designed to unleash that inner potential through a programme of art projects that the author has used with hundreds of beginners.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

210 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 1990

Reviews

[d Kate dooley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was my catalyst book of magic. It was January 5th, 2000. I'd been opening and closing this book for a month or so. Finally got a piece of paper and pencil and sat down at Metsokodu, our neighbor's camp in the wilds, and opened this book once more.

Then I read about dark and light and how it takes both to create art. I'd known that, of course, but... let's just say I was finally illuminated with that idea. The only thing holding me back from stepping into circle with Goddess was the dogma drilled into me in a Christian-favored society that cast aspersions and great shadows on anything "other".

I read the sentence about dark and light and was unblinded by the light on the Damascas road. I saw the world in all its balanced shades of sun and shadow. I closed the book and stepped out into the unseasonably mild air, barefoot, in January, and constructed my first formal circle.

It took a book about art to open the pathway to the craft.

(Also, it's an excellent book on the subject for which it was actually written, drawing.)