ZEN DRAWING WORKSHOP
Fun fact: “drawing” doesn’t mean you need the ability to render a chair or a person with life-like accuracy. Pfft! It is absolutely possible to make marks on paper simply for the joy of creating beautiful images. You don’t need any skill other than the ability to hold a pen.
This is the world of Zen drawing. Welcome. It’s like doodling and meditating had a beautiful love child, one that you frame and look at all of the time. But it’s so fun you want to keep making more. Zen drawing is consciously making marks, it’s entering into and becoming part of the drawing on the page, it’s breathing into the lines on the paper. It’s an easy, judgement-free pleasure.
Zen drawings start with a few random marks on a small piece of paper --no big commitments, no scary blank pages. From there, you learn how to invite your pen to repeat strokes, maybe add curves or circles. Unlike doodling where you absentmindedly sketch while chatting on the phone or listening to a lecture or meeting, Zen drawing opens up a relaxing, breezy conversation between your hands, pen, paper, eyes, breath and brain.
There are no bad drawings.
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to transform a small piece of paper into beautiful illustration. We begin with a brief guided, grounding meditation before flowing into a quick exercise to warm up our creative muscles. I introduce you to a variety of different marks to make, then give you an opportunity to practice them before moving on to your tiny masterpiece. You can keep your marker and will be given additional paper to continue Zen drawing on your own after the workshop.
This workshop is perfect for you and your team/tribe/squad if you’d like to expand your creativity, learn something new, adopt Zen drawing as a daily practice, if you wish to move beyond coloring books, or to expand your meditation practice. I foster a nurturing and playful atmosphere with an emphasis on joy and enrichment.
If you wish, the Zen drawings from your group can be turned into a coloring book for all participants.