Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

John F. Simon, Jr. grew up in central Louisiana and studied Geology and Fine Art at Brown University. He went on to earn a Master's of Science in Earth and Planetary Science at Washington University, and an MFA in Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Simon currently lives and works in Sugar Loaf, New York.