Drawing Your Own Path: 33 Practices at the Crossroads of Art and Meditation, Paperback

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``Drawing Your Own Pathis a smart, subtle, sophisticated, compassionate, radically eye-opening and mind-altering guide to creative and artistic liberation. Thank you, John Simon `` Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being ``John F. Simon, Jr., widely recognized as an early pioneer in the use of computer-generated imagery in contemporary art, has turned his attention to the act mark-making as a doorway into self-awareness and the essential touchstone of visual creativity. Heleads us through a sequence of meditative drawing exercises, and shares insightful, touching anecdotes of his many years of experience as a practicing artist.`` Peter Halley, Artist ``The mysteries of the mind and universe are coupled with a very practical guide to drawing. It is an unlikely but wonderfully fruitful combination, a step-by-step approach to awareness and art.`` Lawrence Rinder, Director, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive ``John s marvelous artwork emerges from a deeply inspired and intuitive unfolding. His gift of finding one s own creative process is beautifully transmitted in this delightful guide.`` Jon Bernie, Ordinary Freedom ``Drawing Your Own Pathis an invitation to those who have never drawn before and a warm, informative, intelligent and lovely book to read. It offers refreshing, new ways to look at and experience the steps to make drawings today.`` Sharon Louden, Artist, Editor of Living and Sustaining a Creative Life Drawing Your Own Path is an account of how multi media artist John Simon s daily drawing discipline became a meditation practice, and how that meditation illuminated his creative source. A practical guidebook full of Simon's own art, Drawing Your Own Path offers meditators an alternative path to just sitting and offers artists a way to mindfully examine and deepen the source of their creative ideas. Readers are guided through thirty three meditation and drawing exercises, exploring concentrated looking, mindful sketching, and improvisational awareness,