Snow Crystals
by W.A. Bentley and W.J. Humphreys, Dover Publications, Inc., New York,1962.

Pages and pages of snowflakes, a great design resource!

Art as Medicine:  Creating a Therapy of the Imagination
by Shaun Mcniff, Shambala, 1992.

"Whenever illness is associated with loss of soul," writes Shaun McNiff, "the arts emerge spontaneously as remedies, soul medicine." The medicine of the artist, like that of the shaman, arises from his or her relationship to "familiars" — the themes, methods, and materials that interact with the artist through the creative process. Art As Medicine demonstrates how the imagination heals and renews itself through this natural process. The author describes his pioneering methods of art therapy — including interpretation through performance and storytelling, creative collaboration, and dialoguing with images — and the ways in which they can revitalize both psychotherapy and art itself.

Art Is a Way of Knowing
by Pat Allen, Shambala, 1995.

An art therapist and member of the art therapy faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Allen gives excellent instructions on using image-making as a way to understand personal fears, dreams, and identity while giving us a look at her own life and image-making process. Especially useful for nonartists, Allen's text explains which art materials to purchase and how to begin a drawing or sculpture.

Life, Paint, Passion
by Michelle Cassou and Stewart Cubley, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York,1995.

A marvelous guide to the creative process and exploring it through painting.

An Earthly Paradise
by Julie Badiee, George Ronald, Oxford England, 1992.

Great chapters on sacred geometry, celestial circles, also rocks, gates, gardens, etc. Out of Print