Illustrator Mel Rye has found that drawing daily patterns to be an impactful creative and mindfulness exercise. In this class—recorded using Zoom and featuring participation from the Skillshare community—she shares this tool along with easy exercises to help you get started and ideas for integrating it into your own self-care practice.

Through the 55-minute class, you will:

• Enjoy a short opening meditation to ground you
• Build a shape library to inspire your patterns, using inspiration from your surroundings
• Complete a circular pattern drawing alongside Mel

This relaxing and accessible class is perfect for artists of any skill level, and can be done with any drawing materials you have on hand. You’ll leave with some new tools for your mindfulness toolkit, a beautiful drawing, and hopefully a little more calm.