Keys to Drawing With Imagination: Strategies and Exercises for Gaining Confidence and Enhancing Your Creativity. Copyright © 2007 by Bert Dodson. Manufactured in China. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. Published by North Light Books, an imprint of F+W Publications, Inc., 4700 East Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45236. 289-0963. (800) 289-0963. First Edition.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dodson, Bert.

Keys to drawing with imagination: strategies and exercises for gaining confidence and enhancing your creativity/Bert Dodson.

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ISBN-13: 978-1-58180-757-8 (alk. paper)

ISBN-13: 978-1-60061-592-4 (EPUB)

ISBN-10: 1-58180-757-0 (alk. paper)

1. Drawing — Technique. 2. Creative ability. I. Title

NC730.D562 2006

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