{"product_id":"drawing-your-own-path-john-f-simon-jr-9781941529362","title":"Drawing Your Own Path","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn artist whose work hangs in many of the world's museums provides a portal into awakening your spirit through a daily drawing practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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. 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\"-LawrenceRinder, Director, UC Berkeley Art Museum \u0026amp; Pacific Film Archive\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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,Ordinary Freedom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John F. Simon, Jr.","offers":[{"title":"As New","offer_id":45308724478195,"sku":"7770002563270","price":16.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781941529362_0ed6bf1f-a49a-422c-9cab-dc55ef489d2a.jpg?v=1712344610","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/drawing-your-own-path-john-f-simon-jr-9781941529362","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}