Draw A Line will instill you with a new sensibility about how you experience art. Using this sketchbook will teach new ways of seeing and thinking that will help you grow as a person, increase your self-awareness, and give form to the story of your life.
Drawing activities are written to give hope, echo and dignify suffering, rebalance and guide, and teach important therapeutic ways to make art.
Draw A Line is created for cancer patients and support groups because art provides comfort and relief. Art reduces tension and offers hope. The drawings and the discussion of visual art enable patients to start talking, sharing, and navigating the path to healing. Lessons in the sketchbook are more than about art, they also help find a new narrative and give the courage needed to face cancer prognosis.
“If this simple sketch book my mother received is any inclination of it’s power to influence the way one looks at the world during and after cancer, it too is an equal opportunity life changer. Through working with drawing techniques in the book; everyday she is practicing art as self love. She pulled out of storage all the art supplies she was too shy to try. As she was reading Nicolette’s words, allowing herself to again feel genuine fear and grief of cancer; she began to release stress in a form of beauty she could see.”