Dangling zenly from doodles

While searching online for books full of drawing techniques at 3a I came across a series of books by different artists on doodle techniques known as zentangling http://zentangle.blogspot.com The technique consists of creating drawn shapes that are segmented as shown here on wikihow; http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Zentangle with patterns how tos here http://tanglepatterns.com/tag/zentangle ..... with the technique the spaces within the segments are filled in with random repeating pattern.  There are some really cool patterns and drawings that I found and I am psyched for the inspiration.   From what I have read there are 147 patterns, some posted on the website but not all because she leads workshops that teach the other patterns and I found postings from 'certified zentangle instructors'.  The techniques are fun,designs are way cool and I was psyched at how much purusing the doodles/zentangles got me drawing with free er lines again.. 

It brought  me back to when I was  younger and would doodle on any and all available surfaces, - stationary wasnt always necesary, still isnt. 

  

Now there are workshops, booklets, YouTube videos, blogs etc on how to zentangle/doodle.

It's quite awesome that doodling is now a thing that people want to search out to do..... I used to to get in trouble for doodling on the covers of my notebooks and now there are classes to show us how.

The concept of teaching doodling is cool and if it gets somebody freethinking and that doing like a child that was fantastic, at the end of the day just be free, like when you were a kid and not worried if you could your draw or not, you  just drew,  and the coolest stuff came out!  So, please, do more of that now.

I think a book to refer to when I'm feeling stuck and forget to doodle..... book or no book, please doodle, the world needs more of what comes from a us when our internal editor isnt too loud.... and when you do, please show me what you drew in comment below or on my facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ColornTell ..... I love to see what you did.... The one I did and posted here is inspired by Sprout Brook, one of my favorite places to take my girls and doodle.

PS ... more to come

Chelle

Procrastinating Fuzz Nuggeted Christmas Lights

Oh man, daily blogging isnt coming naturally to me at all... fuzz nuggets of ugh.
Actually, lately my creative motivation, heck, my motivation in general, is pretty stinkin thin.  There are allot of pressures, its true.... thats where I used to pour it all and now, well, not so much.  Its making me feel thin too, of spirit anyway, certainly not physically.  Part of that is to blame on that peanut butter oreos exist.... what a cruelty to allow those on the shelves during bathing suit season!
The ideas are there, I just feel so stifled by external stuffs that the internal colors are staying inside and keeping each other company instead of me.     One of my books on fostering creativity suggest doing a daily gratitude list, theres that daily bit again...
okay for todays 5 grateful for things:
- raspberries are ripe
- there are tomatoes on the plant I planted in my garden for Cassie
- tis the season to get color on my skin which makes me feel better about passing a mirror
- I have fans!  (It's stinkin hot today- 90 right now at 5:12 in Westchester, NY)
- the dogs I get to call mine are awesome!


The fan is probably saving my sanity and anyone trying to interact with me..... it's a flipping sauna out ther

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and now its



July 23

Today melted with Christmas lights on this hot and humid day....  I was working on my mural, from the inside it seems and lost 2 days and gained so much more.  Since moving to Peekskill 2 1/2 years ago the amout of time I spend in the zone has been minimal, since I started creating to have my own world to live in when the one I was given was less palatable and creative blocks and any form scare me I was not jumping up and down in a happy dance about not being zoned.  As many of you creative peeps know, the more you demand creativity and inspiration to envelope the more evasive that process becomes.....so I put it down for a bit, poutily at first.

This week I have been working on random bits that have been time consuming and quite satisfying along the heat and a desire to keep it moving ...... if feels slow going... it happens like that sometimes.....

since I was have been uber busy tasking I wasnt demanding creativity swallow me up into the zone I miss so much and back in I went into the city scape that I've been whittling onto for a while.  Okay, I'm thinking that metaphor did not quite work since whittling is taking away which doesnt allow for on, tho if I left out two half sentences from the middle to make that it would make sense when they were put back;  ... whittling away and the city project and layered on colors line and characters.... oh yeah, and got to hang Christmas lights in between gardening and moving worms.   It was a full day and I'm looking forward to seeing what else comes togther within my a.d.d. approach to tasking.

PS.... More later

Chewing on My Butt in a Cityscape

Oh wow, there's a blogger app that let's me post from my phone.... YEA!  This 

 makes it possible to do more frequent/daily blogs.

My head is a little spinny these days with pulling towards goals I'm deciding are possible.  I'm tired some.

Tho it IS summer so projecting outside in the yard is possible....the flower garden is coming along, my first in a while, the lillies  

are one of my favorite flowers.... They smell like peace and make me happy.

 Again today I brought a section of the city scape mural outside to work on, I'm pretty psyched about its progression

so far

Lots of stuff to keep a.d.d. mostly entertained... 

If it gets to be too much maybe ill stop and chew on my butt like Sadie does, probably not tho.

Happy eve to you all.

PS