Drawing your own path
Subtitle: 33 practices at the crossroads of art and meditation
By: John F. Simon, Jr
Publisher: Parallax Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781941529362
Subjects: Mysticism and art; Meditation; Art; Problems, exercises
Other titles: Thirty-three practices at the crossroads of art and meditation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 185).
Table of contents: title: Chapter One: Wrong Question, Right Answer; title: Exercise 1: Getting right into it; title: Exercise 2: Watching your hand; title: Exercise 3: Marking practice; title: Chapter Two: Realistic Drawing; title: Exercise 4: Picking an object to draw; title: Exercise 5: Attentive looking; title: Exercise 6: Noticing awareness; title: Exercise 7: Marking from the sense of sight; title: Exercise 8: Simple rendering; title: Exercise 9: Try perspective; title: Exercise 10: Working inward; title: Chapter Three: Systematic Drawing; title: Exercise 11: The circular arrow; title: a visual mantra; title: Exercise 12: Improvising between two points and finding the world in between; title: Exercise 13: Thought as art; title: Exercise 14: All four pixel images; title: Exercise 15: Book of compositions; title: Chapter Four: Improvisational Drawing; title: Exercise 16: Going outside the box; title: Exercise 17: Not breath awareness; title: Exercise 18: Growing improvisation; title: Exercise 19: Chasing the Coltrane Effect; title: Exercise 20: Drawing to reveal inner conditions; title: Exercise 21: Noticing Intuition; title: Exercise 22: You are the universe drawing; title: Chapter Five: Reading the Drawings; title: Exercise 23: An exact physical description; title: Exercise 24: Feeling the meaning; title: Exercise 25: The story we tell ourselves; title: Exercise 26: Connecting our story to a larger story; title: Chapter Six: The Search for the Source of Creativity; title: Exercise 27: Priming the source; title: Exercise 28: Embedded sources; title: Exercise 29: Sitting still at the origin; title: Exercise 30: Mindful of the path; title: Chapter Seven: Meta-Drawing; title: Exercise 31: Sharing with yourself; title: Exercise 32: Sharing with a trusted friend; title: Exercise 33: Sharing with the world.