{"product_id":"drawing-your-own-path-33-practices-at-the-crossroads-of-art-and-meditation-9781941529362","title":"Drawing Your Own Path: 33 Practices at the Crossroads of Art and Meditation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John F. Simon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Parallax Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Parallax Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Techniques - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Drawing Your Own Path\u003c\/i\u003e is a smart, subtle, sophisticated, compassionate, radically eye-opening and mind-altering guide to creative and artistic liberation. Thank you, John Simon!\"--Ruth Ozeki, \u003ci\u003eA Tale for the Time Being\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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. He leads 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 \u0026amp; Pacific Film Archive \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Drawing Your Own Path is 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 \u003ci\u003eLiving and Sustaining a Creative Life \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing Your Own Path\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eDrawing Your Own Path\u003c\/i\u003e 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, all designed to help practitioners discover the vast creativity within themselves and in their daily lives.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46318699249815,"sku":"9781941529362","price":2429.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781941529362.webp?v=1767712634","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/drawing-your-own-path-33-practices-at-the-crossroads-of-art-and-meditation-9781941529362","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}