Coming (not too) Soon: More Workbooks!
One of my 2024 goals is to publish Drawing Meditation exercises. We have three workbooks now, but I have scores of exercises and meditations to share.
Workbooks are my favorite medium, so that is what I plan. But they are old-fashioned and don’t sell well. Every time I get started on them, I ruminate:
- Maybe an app would be better
- An online course with videos?
- Workbooks specifically for coaches and teachers
- Maybe I need a full Drawing Meditations Teacher Training
- How about a new coloring book?
- Individual mediations for download?
- More podcast episodes?
- We haven’t had a live class in ages…
And at that point I hit the bottom of the well and become paralysed by the number of possibilities, which leads to no progress on anything.
So I am putting it out there. Workbooks in 2024. This will help me to organise my thoughts and gather the materials to do any of the other formats that seem good later. And if workbooks don’t sell, at least it won’t be a surprise.
More Articles
Neurographic Art in Circles
Neurographic art is a way to settle your mind into a meditative state through repetition. It's easy, takes no practice or skill, and no matter what you do it looks pretty cool. It was developed by Pavel Piskarev, a Russian psychologist, in 2014. As with all our...
Artober 2021: 31-day art challenge
Want to add more art to your autumn? I've got 31 creative prompts scheduled for each day in October on our Facebook page and on Instagram. Some prompts are simply text, others may have instructions, examples, or even a video. How to do the challenge The only rule to...
Creating happy moments with yoga and drawing
In addition to teaching art & meditation, I lead a yoga class every morning. On the 3rd Sunday of the month, I combine Drawing Meditation and Satoyama Yoga. Today we created fanciful drawings based on our movement in Sun Salutations and Warrior Flow. Elephant...
Watercolor universes
I have a special request for an upcoming private session and today I spent some time playing with the materials. My lovely student has watercolor pencils and wants to do a cosmos sky. I've created night skies in acrylic pant and in colored pencil but not in...
Connecting with Canada
"Greetings appropriate to time of day," says a friend of mine when he connects on Zoom calls. I felt that myself in today's class, which was a private Tangle Art session with a community group in Canada. For them, it was Tuesday evening; for me, Wednesday morning....
Where are your art supplies?
Where do you keep your art supplies? Neatly packed up on a shelf? Tucked away in a closet? Or are the in front of you everyday where you can reach for them? If you want to get benefit of something - art supplies or any other thing - you need to keep it where you can...
Benefits of Flow State
When you dive into an activity so deeply that your sense of time and place float away, that's flow state. When you are in flow, your movement, thoughts, and output feel almost effortless. You experience a state of deep concentration where worries and stray thoughts...
Transformations with Jayne Podcast
Jayne Nakata lives in Iwaki, Fukushima and I had a chance to meet her in person a couple years ago at a retreat a mutual friend hosted. I was delighted to have a conversation with her for her podcast, Transformations with Jayne. It was a delight to be a disembodied...
What color is love for you?
As an artist, I assign colors to all sort of things that don't actually have color: emotions, thoughts, time, ideas...my inner world is very colorful, indeed. Matching color to concepts is a hallmark of many of our Drawing Meditation themes. Love is in the air during...
The Joys of Online Workshops
Most of us are well and truly exhausted by the number of online interactions we've had in the past 11 months and counting - work meetings, online happy hours, first dates, classes, birthday parties, and beyond. As much as I love seeing my family and buddies online, I...