Spirit of Drawing: A Sensory Meditation Guide to Creative Expression

Artistic expression,
spirituality, and meditation
combine to capture the
Spirit of Drawing


Spirit of Drawing engages readers in an intriguing
series of illustrated visual experiments that combine
meditation, expressive therapy, and hands-on
exploration with drawing media. Author Connie Smith Siegel's ideas, developed over many years of
research and learning, build on the meditation practice
of sensory awareness, a blending of Buddhist
meditation and simple physical activities. Applied to
creative expression, sensory awareness distills
drawing and painting to their simplest components:
touching, seeing, and moving. In this unusual and
freeing book, artists learn to use these new sensations
to guide their hand toward the movements,
shapes, and colors that express what they are feeling.
Not only do the artists produce a work of art,
they express their own emotions and inner wisdom.
Techniques gradually build to more complex visual
expressions such as representational drawing, color theory, composition, and to the use of art in healing. Part art instruction, part art therapy, Spirit of Drawing offers a rich spiritual pathway to self-expression.


• Presents Siegel’s unique ideas, honed over
forty years of work in art and in spirituality


• An entirely new approach to art education


• Innovative ideas for therapists and everyone
in the healing professions

Connie Smith Siegel has more than
forty years experience as an artist and
teacher;
her work has been exhibited across the
country. She has studied meditation,
Gestalt theory, and expressive art therapy
in depth. She lives in Woodacre,
CA.