by Kay Bain Weiner
Paperback (May 1990) Tap into your own creative resources and "draw out the artist from within." Stimulating your inventiveness and sparking the imagination can expand your creative potential. This book focuses on the total designing process from the imagination to the assembly stage. An informative design and color guide, it is an invaluable aid for the novice as well as the instructor or professional craftsperson, Learn how to: find new design ideas, draw your own patterns, create an exciting and balanced composition, enlarge patterns with various tools and equipment, select glass colors and textures to enhance your design, effectively display finished pieces. Included are a series of exercises and procedures designed to develop free-flowing ideas, creative intuition, self- confidence, and a better understanding of the interplay of color and line dynamics. Expand your knowledge about optical illusions, light exposure, negative/positive space, rhythm, variety, mood, perspective, depth, warm/cool colors, focal points, and the color wheel with fun experiments you can try.