Artist Within: A Guide to Becoming Creatively Fit

by Whitney Ferre

If you can spill paint, this book will help you turn your creative potential into reality. Whether you are looking to be a writer, architect, entrepreneur, painter, or business leader, developing creative ideas is the factor that differentiates the extraordinary from the common. Based on principles that underlie the aesthetics of design, this book shows you how to strengthen your own creative ability and how to turn that ability into reality. So, if you ever felt that you have creative potential, or even if you don't, but you want to be more creative, pick up this book and start unlocking your own Artist Within.

Genres: Art

236 pages, Paperback

First published October 24, 2008

Reviews

[Tami · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love this book! I happened upon it by accident (if there is such a thing) and it resonated with me from the very first paragraph, where I found myself already underlining a passage. The premise of strengthening the right brain through art to create self-awareness and change makes perfect sense...and it actually works. I have tried many of the creativity workouts already, and can't wait to try more. This book will be an ongoing reference to me as a parent, as a student of creativity, as a teacher of creative pursuits, and as a human being who wants to stay connected to my artist within.

[Stef Garvin · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Artist Within provides great exercises and challenges for getting in touch with your creative side--even (especially) if you didn't know you had a creative side. Whitney Ferre helps readers realize that we all have a creative, right-brained side. In today's culture, there is often a lack of value placed on creative activities. By opening up our creative, right mind, we gain access to our "hidden genius."

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I haven't completed all of the exercises in this book yet but I have seen the value in those I have and would recommend this to anyone wanting to find their creativity.

[Liza Decamp · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love how this book is helping me find the creativity in me again. For a long time it had been lost and only at times has come out. I want it to be with me all the time and forever.