Drawing Your Own Path

33 Practices at the Crossroads of Art and Meditation

John F. Simon, Jr.

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Parallax Press
30 January 2017

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An artist whose work hangs in many of the world's museums provides a portal into awakening your spirit through a daily drawing practice.

""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.""-LawrenceRinder, 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, all designed to help practitioners discover the vast creativity within themselves and in their daily lives.

By: John F. Simon Jr.
Imprint: Parallax Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 194mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 663g
ISBN: 9781941529362
ISBN 10: 1941529364
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 30 January 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter One: Wrong Question, Right Answer Exercise 1: Getting right into it Exercise 2: Watching your hand Exercise 3: Marking practice Chapter Two: Realistic Drawing Exercise 4: Picking an object to draw Exercise 5: Attentive looking Exercise 6: Noticing awareness Exercise 7: Marking from the sense of sight Exercise 8: Simple rendering Exercise 9: Try perspective Exercise 10: Working inward Chapter Three: Systematic Drawing Exercise 11: The circular arrow - a visual mantra Exercise 12: Improvising between two points and finding the world in between Exercise 13: Thought as art Exercise 14: All four pixel images Exercise 15: Book of compositions Chapter Four: Improvisational Drawing Exercise 16: Going outside the box Exercise 17: Not breath awareness Exercise 18: Growing improvisation Exercise 19: Chasing the Coltrane Effect Exercise 20: Drawing to reveal inner conditions Exercise 21: Noticing Intuition Exercise 22: You are the universe drawing Chapter Five: Reading the Drawings Exercise 23: An exact physical description Exercise 24: Feeling the meaning Exercise 25: The story we tell ourselves Exercise 26: Connecting our story to a larger story Chapter Six: The Search for the Source of Creativity Exercise 27: Priming the source Exercise 28: Embedded sources Exercise 29: Sitting still at the origin Exercise 30: Mindful of the path Chapter Seven: Meta-Drawing Exercise 31: Sharing with yourself Exercise 32: Sharing with a trusted friend Exercise 33: Sharing with the world

John F. Simon, Jr. is one of the pioneers in the development of Software Art. His seminal work ""Every Icon"" was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial. In October 2005 the Whitney Museum of American Art and Printed Matter published Simon's artist's book and software CD, Mobility Agents, and in 2011, Simon collaborated with Icelandic singer Bj rk to write an app for her album, Biophilia, the first app album ever created. Simon's artworks can be found in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Collezione Maramotti, The Brooklyn Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. Simon currently lives and works in Sugar Loaf, New York.