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

Drawing Your Own Path is 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. 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

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 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 ofLiving and Sustaining a Creative Life 

Drawing Your Own Pathis 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 Pathoffers meditators an alternative path to ‘just sitting’ and offers artists a way to mindfully examine and deepen the source of their cl£Í