Form Drawing and Colouring for Fun, Healing and Wellbeing: Fourfold Patterns for Harmonising Body and Soul (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781907359781)

Creative form drawing is afascinating and meaningful artistic activity for health and wellbeing. It helpswith focus and is fun. It engages the right brain by getting into the flow of color, form, and movement. It offers the opportunity for personal creativity, usingstunning, colorful forms to stimulate originality. Creative form drawing can beenergizing and relaxing, calming and enlivening, and a valuable aid to harmonizingbody and soul.

This first creative form drawingbook for adults features fourfold patterns of increasing challenge, featuringCeltic, Moorish, Native American, and Buddhist patterns and encourages the developmentof new forms. The forms have symmetry--balance between left and right andbetween above and below, connecting the center with the periphery while providingstability and harmony.

Some forms are rhythmic, with patterns that move in flowingrhythms and lines. Other forms are inspired organically by nature's colors and formations.Flowers provide inspiring ideas for color combinations and new forms. Drawingwith line, form, color, and beauty is a balancing, healing, and enliveningprocess.

Originally developed by Rudolf Steiner, creative formdrawing is widely used in Waldorf education to support healthy development andlearning of children of all ages, aiding eye-hand coordination, balance, confident movement, observation, and drawing skills.