Learning to draw: Unlocking creativity with Betty Edwards’ right-brain techniques
I’m learning how to draw, and let me tell you—it’s nothing like I expected. Drawing doesn’t require years of art classes or fancy tools. According…
Author: Kim Hermanson
Dr. Kim Hermanson helps creatives, pioneers, and seekers break free from linear thinking and access a deeper, more expansive intelligence through metaphor. An educator and adjunct professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute, she guides people into the mind’s third space—an untapped field of profound beauty and knowing. Learn more at MetaphorMind Lab.
How drawing taught me to see the extraordinary in the everyday
Ten years ago, I found myself sitting in on a drawing class in Oakland. The topic that day was shading—how to capture the play of…
Stanley Kunitz’s The Layers: How poetry offers hope and vision for humanity
In 2001, during National Poetry Month, Robert Siegel on NPR’s All Things Considered asked Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz whether poetry was a dying art. Kunitz…
Honoring Paul Reynard: Insights on the creative process and the hidden possibilities of art
Last Friday January 23rd, the French painter and art teacher Paul Reynard died in his New York home. He wasn’t particularly well known for his…
Lessons from Gurdjieff: Speaking from Being, not just the mind
I just watched Meetings with Remarkable Men, a fascinating film based on the book by Greek-Armenian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949). Both the book and film…
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