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| Last night's Zentangle, complete with Celtic Square Knot |
In the last few days, I've become infected with a new obsession: Zentangling. Started by the artists Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas, the art of the
Zentangle is a meditative way to take your intuitive act of doodling to new heights. Zentangle patterns and textures augment your own visual vocabulary, inspiring and moving your creations into the realm of Art. People talk about the "zone" when describing athletes in the midst of their highest performance. In the world of Zentangling, getting in the zone is about unfettered (no erasers! no mistakes!) doodling that moves the creator into the realm of a calming trance—stimulated and relaxed at the same time.
If you visit my blog from a year ago, you'll see how I had gone on a mandala binge creating lots of black and white images and then filling them in with the help of Illustrator's Live Trace and Live Paint.
Here are my very first Zentangles. Also, when watching so many videos over the weekend to feed my new addiction, I stumbled upon the entertaining
YouTube videos of David Nicholls who unlocked the mystery of Celtic knots. I've mixed some of that flavor (in the Zentangle above) in with the Zentangle patterns and took off.
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| My first Zentangle Mandala |
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| My first Zentangle with a Celtic Knot as the starting point. |
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| My very first Zentangle on Wednesday, October 30 |
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| Now I'm seeing potential Zentangle patterns everywhere. This was a pattern on Amy's jersey. |
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