amandamechele wrote:Thanks
Sue. I hope you are doing well.
Buns - Thanks.
When I googled zentangles I came across the site that you mentioned. I'll take a better look at it, as it sounds interesting. But, truly, even my hand writing is a shambles, LOL. As a lefty, I've always managed to smear the pen ink or smudge the pencil or chalk when writing. There may be no hope for me. What kinds of patterns do you draw? Is it limited to repeating patterns? Have you kept all 4 years worth? You could wallpaper a room with your own drawings, how amazing that would be! With regards to the pomegranates... I love them and they are on sale where I am too, so I foresee many more in the near future.
Truly, the cool thing about it is there are no mistakes. In fact, the starter kit that Zentangle.com sells doesn't even come with an eraser. (I use one, though. Because...mistakes!) Some people have really fine straight linework, some people create rougher images. Across the board people's style improves over time. I look at some of my first pieces and just
but of course, I also look at some current stuff and go
One of the weirdest aspects of zentangle is that you use smaller pieces of paper called tiles, that are 3.5x3.5. To store them, I have a three ring binder with protective sleeves that take nine cards that size. But I also have sketchbook after sketchbook of larger works, practice time, and notes. Yeah, I could paper my bedroom with zentangle art LOL
But it's pretty cool to get that three ring binder out and look at stuff from years ago. The sketchbooks too. I'll do a piece and not like it at all. Give it a couple of weeks and WOW! did I do THAT! It's funny, I've always been a word person. Journals and typewriters and letters. But anymore, it's very taken up with paper and ink images. Right brain activity. As for repetitive patterns...it depends. A pattern that is on a grid, you could just take the elements within ONE square of the grid. Or, a more random pattern, you could put it on a grid and repeat it.
It's relaxing and stress-relieving. Addictive, really. Some days I feel literally like I need a fix.
A really good place to find lots of blogs is
http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.com It is a weekly challenge that lots of people participate in, and you can click into their blogs or their flickr or pinterest accounts and see so much inspirational stuff.
K that's enough now! ha! told you I could go on forever. And yes, I will be buying pomegranates today. The looks too scrumptious.