#drawingasmeditation

[ghostofatree]

Like an underground coal fire that cannot be extinguished, the Book of Lamentations continues each time I stop archiving it. These were part of a challenge we set the #liverpoolindependentartschool patrons to draw 50 hands or feet in a week. Very few of us hit 50 but really the point was just to embed drawing hands or feet over time. They tend to be the things that most students fear drawing because we recognise them all the time but don’t really look at them. That means we don’t know how to draw them but can see immediately when they don’t look structurally correct. Just like the folks we teach I have exactly the same issues with them but did find (unexpectedly) that I really enjoyed trying to see them more accurately as a pathway into the flow headspace that drawing as meditation offers. I drew these in a water soluble fine liner with a water-brush pen to blend the lines outward into tonal areas. Line is an agreed abstraction but we understand what it means visually. In nature there is really no line- just the edge of distinct tones meeting each other. #sketchbook #sketchbookdrawing #onservationaldrawing #sketchbookpage #hands #gestures #drawingasmeditation https://www.instagram.com/p/ChM4PDFs2tq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sueclancy]

Drawing is a way of thinking about things. Here's part of a 9 part drawing demo I've done for @love_to_draw_nil NIL-TECH. I'm practicing talking, Julia Child style, while I draw! 🤣 In these demos I'm sharing how I get my ideas and my working process using #watercolorpencils . The idea for this "Coffee Pup" drawing was inspired by the feeling of enjoying the first sip of good #coffee . More information about the art supplies seen in this video here- http://shop.nil-tech.com/?ref=DmLN4hDZ You can find the rest of this demo here https://sueclancy.com/portfolio/drawing-demos-by-clancy/ #drawingdemo #artsupplies #acreativelife #creativeprocess #drawingasmeditation #creativity #gettingideas (at Vancouver, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiNwMLTJRbs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[strawberryluna]

Geo shapes on shapes and lines in a classic 3 color palette. White & black background options. • #drawingasmeditation #sketches #ipadpro #paper53 #paperapp #strawberryluna #geometrics #drawingaday https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp46dVMhzXF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pu4qypxkw33z

[through-thehand]

Doodling...❤️ This is how my mind relaxes...this is how I re-center and find myself again...🙌🏾🙏🏾 . . . . #artbyshantadevi #whatshantamade #art #artist #artjournal #doodle #drawing #sketchbook #sketch #moleskine @notebook.stories #journal #thinkingonpaper #thirdeye #drawingasmeditation #artistsoninstagram #artoninstagram #artisfreedom #drawingwhileblack #blackartist #blackgirlmagic #blackgirlswhodraw #blackgirlswhoartjournal #face #thejourneyisthedestination #blue https://www.instagram.com/p/B9daYnkAdCe/?igshid=1ooia2hzg9fj3

[chitra-noctiluna]

Another teardrops sketch. #sketchbook #draweveryday #gellyroll #drawingasmeditation (at Vienna, Virginia)

[elijorgensen]

For me, the most enjoyable and relaxing thing to draw is freestyled, fleshy, toothy masses. You can really get into a nice, meditative flow state by not thinking about what the drawing ‘should’ look like. #elijorgensen #doodles #drawing #flowstate #cronenberg #drawingasmeditation

[hillaking]

Drawing as Meditation, I

Part 1 - The Context

3/09  - I’ve enrolled in a series of Drawing as Meditation classes at The Folk School.  Last night was the first class and I’m still feeling jazzed/bliss-ed out about it.  I want to use this space to regurgitate about it to keep the momentum up, but it’s story time first.    

The teacher, R., is an artist, educator, and close friend of the farm.  This summer, I stayed with the furry creatures at her home for a portion of her travels.  R. actually didn’t meet me til weeks later, and I’m sure having a stranger in her home when Cat #2 disappeared into the wilderness wasn’t particularly comforting.  My suspicions of “the worst” were proven wrong, but that’s a different story.   Being in someone’s in home while they’re gone is strange.  It’s like that interrogation room in a crime TV series with mirrors that are really windows from the other side of the wall.  You’re in the room next door, observing but unseen.  

Handmade ceramics, art-filled walls, large windows reflecting sunlight onto white interior, a piano.  Amidst the copious amounts of animal hair and creative clutter were piles and shelves and cases of books.  Novels, artists, art history, art theory, art technique, and oodles of sketchbooks.  (I ought to add that paging through someone’s sketchbook is at the top of my guilty pleasure list).  Her shelves also included a wide variety of wellness literature: meditation, mental health practices such as CBT & DBT, and other writings on mindfullness.   From the first day I stepped foot in her home, I was hit by a wave of idontknowyoubutweshouldbefriends, followed  by an overwhelming sense that I was looking into the brain of someone that was me in 15 years. I don’t know her story, but I can tell our mental waves travel some common paths.  She knows things.

Let’s just say a “mentor crush” was developed, so I was very curious to see what this Drawing as Meditation was all about.

[ghostofatree]

I had started to use the Book of Lamentations for keeping up with my responses to our current #liverpoolindependentartschool life drawing sessions on Zoom. @paulg.art and I have the chance to draw in these sessions (but it is not always easy to draw as a host rather than a patron because we need to multi task sometimes with advising on tech things, answering queries in chat etc). Paul does much of the organising but somehow usually manages a much better drawing than I do. Some of my drawings work and some don’t. This set include three attempts at the same pose - with the first in simple construction lines being my favourite and the fourth is a quick one of Molly on a page of further Loomis method research. Our main model here is again the excellent @thequeenofheartbreak We have a different theme and response triggers each week. We have upgraded our zoom for longer drawing time and now run sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons like we used to in Rose Lane so our online response has become closer to what our artists had wanted in the real world. The drawings here are quite quick and some are a little clumsy but it has been a long time since I’ve had the chance to draw from the model so the experience is valuable for me. Drawing from the model is like a mindfulness meditation for me and I enjoy the headspace. The normal discursive worries slow right down when focusing on the task at hand. We couldn’t ask for a better model and our numbers are starting to grow with these sessions which include a half hour tea break after the drawing and then a PowerPoint of participant responses with pretty in depth supportive feedback. There is a sense that real learning and increases in confidence are evident. #sketchbook #sketchbookdrawing #sketchbookdaily #zoomclasses #lifedrawing #onlinelifedrawing #lifemodel #quickdrawing #lifestudy #liesureclass #mindfulness #drawingasmeditation (at Minster Court) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdBMs-Fs9MY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ghostofatree]

Here are another set of the observational hand drawings I did for the recent 50 hands challenge for #liverpoolindependentartschool -Each drawing was about 3 or 4 minutes and I found the headspace of repeated short observational drawings very meditative and mood enhancing. Observational drawing is a particular thing. I draw in order to look and look in order to see and see in order to connect. It would be beautiful to catch glimpses of enlightenment by making simple drawings. For your benefit and benefit of all living beings I charge you to draw your hands or feet 50 times #observationaldrawing #sketchbook #sketchbookdrawing #sketchbookpage #hand #handdrawing #handdrawn #mudra #drawingasmeditation #frederickfranck #seeingtheworld (at Minster Court) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChU02_yMcHi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ghostofatree]

Like an underground coal fire that cannot be extinguished, the Book of Lamentations continues each time I stop archiving it. These were part of a challenge last year when we set the #liverpoolindependentartschool patrons to draw 50 hands or feet in a week. Very few of us hit 50 but really the point was just to embed drawing hands or feet over time. They tend to be the things that most students fear drawing because we recognise them all the time but don’t really look at them. That means we don’t know how to draw them but can see immediately when they don’t look structurally correct. Just like the folks we teach I have exactly the same issues with them but did find (unexpectedly) that I really enjoyed trying to see them more accurately as a pathway into the flow headspace that drawing as meditation offers. I drew these in a water soluble fine liner with a water-brush pen to blend the lines outward into tonal areas. Line is an agreed abstraction but we understand what it means visually. In nature there is really no line- just the edge of distinct tones meeting each other. #sketchbook #sketchbookdrawing #onservationaldrawing #sketchbookpage #hands #gestures #drawingasmeditation (at Minster Court) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg2FL_KMYAe/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ghostofatree]

I had started to use the Book of Lamentations for keeping up with my responses to our current #liverpoolindependentartschool life drawing sessions on Zoom. @paulg.art and I have had the chance to draw in these sessions (but it is not always easy to draw as a host rather than a patron because we need to multi task sometimes with advising on tech things, answering queries in chat etc). Paul did much of the organising but somehow always managed a much better drawing than me. Some of my drawings work and some don’t. The third one here being my least favourite but the first being acceptable ones of this set. Our model here is the excellent @thequeenofheartbreak and we have a different theme and response triggers each week. We upgraded our zoom for longer drawing time and now run sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons like we used to in Rose Lane so our online response has become closer to what our artists had wanted in the real world. The drawings here are quite quick and some are a little clumsy but it had been a long time since I’d had the chance to draw from the model so the experience was valuable for me. Drawing from the model is like a mindfulness meditation and I enjoy the headspace. The normal discursive worries slow right down when focusing on the task at hand. We couldn’t ask for a better model and our numbers grew with these sessions which include a tea break after the drawing and then a slideshow of participant responses with pretty in-depth supportive feedback. There is often a sense that real learning and increases in confidence are evident for patrons and for me too. #sketchbook #sketchbookdrawing #sketchbookdaily #zoomclasses #lifedrawing #onlinelifedrawing #lifemodel #quickdrawing #lifestudy #liesureclass #mindfulness #drawingasmeditation (at Minster Court) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc-dVoiM-lj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ghostofatree]

Here are another set of the observational hand drawings I did for the recent 50 hands challenge for #liverpoolindependentartschool -Each drawing was about 3 or 4 minutes and I found the headspace of repeated short observational drawings very meditative and mood enhancing. Observational drawing is a particular thing. I draw in order to look and look in order to see and see in order to connect. It would be beautiful to catch glimpses of enlightenment by making simple drawings. For your benefit and benefit of all living beings I charge you to draw your hands or feet 50 times #observationaldrawing #sketchbook #sketchbookdrawing #sketchbookpage #hand #handdrawing #handdrawn #mudra #drawingasmeditation #frederickfranck #seeingtheworld (at Minster Court) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQhCBSYMqV0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ghostofatree]

Like an underground coal fire that cannot be extinguished, the Book of Lamentations continues each time I stop archiving it. These were part of a challenge we set the #liverpoolindependentartschool patrons to draw 50 hands or feet in a week. Very few of us hit 50 but really the point was just to embed drawing hands or feet over time. They tend to be the things that most students fear drawing because we recognise them all the time but don’t really look at them. That means we don’t know how to draw them but can see immediately when they don’t look structurally correct. Just like the folks we teach I have exactly the same issues with them but did find (unexpectedly) that I really enjoyed trying to see them more accurately as a pathway into the flow headspace that drawing as meditation offers. I drew these in a water soluble fine liner with a water-brush pen to blend the lines outward into tonal areas. Line is an agreed abstraction but we understand what it means visually. In nature there is really no line- just the edge of distinct tones meeting each other. #sketchbook #sketchbookdrawing #onservationaldrawing #sketchbookpage #hands #gestures #drawingasmeditation https://www.instagram.com/p/CQdg3rnMuv7/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ghostofatree]

Like an underground coal fire that cannot be extinguished, the Book of Lamentations continues each time I stop archiving it. These were part of a challenge we set the #liverpoolindependentartschool patrons to draw 50 hands or feet in a week. Very few of us hit 50 but really the point was just to embed drawing hands or feet over time. They tend to be the things that most students fear drawing because we recognise them all the time but don’t really look at them. That means we don’t know how to draw them but can see immediately when they don’t look structurally correct. Just like the folks we teach I have exactly the same issues with them but did find (unexpectedly) that I really enjoyed trying to see them more accurately as a pathway into the flow headspace that drawing as meditation offers. I drew these in a water soluble fine liner with a water-brush pen to blend the lines outward into tonal areas. Line is an agreed abstraction but we understand what it means visually. In nature there is really no line- just the edge of distinct tones meeting each other. #sketchbook #sketchbookdrawing #onservationaldrawing #sketchbookpage #hands #gestures #drawingasmeditation (at Minster Court) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQdeDlAsxNv/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ghostofatree]

A final set of life drawings from the Book of Lamentations today - again these are of Eve with the painted one being quite stiff but I liked the reflected figure in the mirror better than the main figure. I try to vary my materials a bit because I haven’t had the chance to life draw for years really so this is back to being an ongoing learning experience for me (as actually all drawing is got anyone who goes it at any stage ) #sketchbook #sketchbookdrawing #lifedrawing #lifedrawingclass #onlinelifedrawing #zoomclasses #lockdown2021 #lifemodelling #drawingasmeditation #liverpoolindependentartschool (at Minster Court) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLRp1YuB2Q3/?igshid=1r5fs6jv05hq2

[ghostofatree]

I had started to use the Book of Lamentations for keeping up with my responses to our current #liverpoolindependentartschool life drawing sessions on Zoom. @paulg.art and I have the chance to draw in these sessions (but it is not always easy to draw as a host rather than a patron because we need to multi task sometimes with advising on tech things, answering queries in chat etc). Paul does the brunt of the organising but somehow usually manages a much better drawing than I do. Some of my drawings work and some don’t. Todays set include three attempts at the same pose - with the first in simple construction lines bring my favourite and the fourth is a quick one of Molly on a page of further Loomis method research. Our main model here is again the excellent @thequeenofheartbreak We have a different theme and response triggers each week. We have upgraded our zoom for longer drawing time and now run sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons like we used to in Rose Lane so our online response has become closer to what our artists had wanted in the real world. The drawings here are quite quick and some are a little clumsy but it has been a long time since I’ve had the chance to draw from the model so the experience is valuable for me. Drawing from the model is like a mindfulness meditation for me and I enjoy the headspace. The normal discursive worries slow right down when focusing on the task at hand. We couldn’t ask for a better model and our numbers are starting to grow with these sessions which include a half hour tea break after the drawing and then a PowerPoint of participant responses with pretty in depth supportive feedback. There is a sense that real learning and increases in confidence are evident. #sketchbook #sketchbookdrawing #sketchbookdaily #zoomclasses #lifedrawing #onlinelifedrawing #lifemodel #quickdrawing #lifestudy #liesureclass #mindfulness #drawingasmeditation (at Minster Court) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLPG80aBvNI/?igshid=3dohzdteyjgs