Leonardo's Ink Bottle: The Artist's Way of Seeing

Weir, Roberta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0890878544 ISBN 13: 9780890878545

Publisher: Celestial Arts, 1998

This guide to creativity describes the rediscovery of and reliance upon instinct, intuition and the nature of inspiration, and asks the reader to lay aside the accepted definitions of logical "realistic" interpretation. The author goes on to examine the mastery of technique, and explains how to translate what comes in through the eye and out via the hand. Finally, we are we are asked to cast aside inspiration and the mastering of technique, stop thinking about it, and just do it.