First chapter of my book on art and blindness completed

[kestrell]

Also the introduction. The working title is _Six Ways of Looking at an Elephant_. I expect I will be doing more tweaking, and I need to do another pass in order to add the footnotes, but I think this is going to be the most difficult chapter--I keep forgetting how complicated lines, shapes, and forms really are. Also, I had to spend a lot of time figuring out the format of how to explain art terms, and deciding which terms absolutely needed to be in the first chapter without making that chapter huge ("elements of art" is pretty basic, "principles of design" can come later, especially since art instructors don't necessarily agree what all those principles are, just that they exist).

When I have a second chapter, I may ask for beta readers to give feedback on comprehensibility and whether I am squeezing too much into a chapter.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

CONGRATS! That's awesome. I am pretty much untouched by any formal training in art, art history. I read a book on tape about the lives of the French impressionists once, and I'm all over calligraphy and type design, but otherwise virgin. (So to speak.)