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.
The drawing bee is just for fun.
We draw and chat together over Zoom.
Everyone is welcome.
The Drawing Bee is a safe space for creativity
-No drawing experience necessary
-No one sees your drawing unless you show it
-Use whatever materials you like
Drawing Bee!
Social Drawing Bee
Every Tuesday @ 9pm EDT
Every Weekday Silent Drawing Bee
Monday-Friday @ 11am EDT
Zoom room password is: draw
Drawing Bees last one hour but you may come and go at any time. The point is to be creative and feel comfortable.
Morning Bees are silent with a bell signaling the end of the hour.
Tuesday night bees are social and everyone is welcome to chat as we draw.
On Tuesday night I give a prompt which you are free to follow or ignore : )
At the end of the hour on Tuesday anyone who wants to can share their drawing
Email drawing bee questions to: jfsjr@drawiwngyourownpath.com
Drawing Air
Click here to view the exhibition, 360 views, installation shots
David Richard Gallery, LLC
211 East 121 ST | New York, NY 10035
P: (212) 882-1705
JOHN F. SIMON, JR.
October 14 through November 8, 2020
John F. Simon Jr.’s is a multimedia artist and Software Art pioneer whose work and installations are found in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others. In 2011, he collaborated with Icelandic singer Björk to write an app for her album, Biophilia. Simon's newest publication, Drawing Your Own Path: 33 Practices at the Crossroads of Art and Meditation will be released in November, 2016, by Parallax Press. Simon grew up in central Louisiana and currently lives and works in Sugar Loaf, New York.
As a professional artist, Simon's artworks are exhibited around the world and owned by many museums. Images of these artworks and more exhibition information can be found on his website, numeral.com.
Since 2008 Simon has posted a daily drawing online as part of his drawing meditation and creative practice. You can view today's drawing along with an archive of past posts on iclock.com