These are new to me - a friend told me about them on the weekend. It's a doodling drawing technique, good for people who say they can't draw. If you google on Zentangle you'll get the original site, as well as lots of spinoff sites. It is very relaxing, doesn't take too long and the final designs are quite lovely.
Have fun! Allison
Ummm.... I get it and I don't.
I can see the attraction for/similarities to quilting.... OTOH, it's a "pet rock". Somebody stuck a fancy-schmancy buzz-word on something mundane - that millions have done intuitively their entire lives - and applied a marketing gimmick to sell pens & paper for an obscene mark-up....
It's either brilliantly inane or inanely brilliant - I can't figure out which....
P.T. Barnum must be LHAO, wherever he is....
Doc
Ah but you DON'T need to buy their (overpriced) kits.....just take the idea and have fun with it. I think it's an interesting twist on what most of us do anyway.
A.
More power to you. Like I said - looks like what I (and a lot of folks) have been doing all our lives. Looks like a crazy quilt too, if you think of the areas as patches.
These look great. I like the discipline of the small area.
I do the same thing, sometimes with celtic knots, and then use them as quilting lines.
But, having done some Art Therapy, I think these things could be useful, but possibly need to be used carefully by anyone with MH Issues. I could imagine (far too easily) these things taking you into some dark recesses that should really only be attempted under supervision.
Kept as fun, and doodling: great idea! Could get obsessional: bad.
That isn't supposed to be as parade-raining as it may sound. I just add a word of caution, as one who has BTDT, ((((shudder)))
Nel (GQ)
i best not play with it then. j.
"Sartorresartus" wrote ... These look great. I like the discipline of the small area.
I do the same thing, sometimes with celtic knots, and then use them as quilting lines.
But, having done some Art Therapy, I think these things could be useful, but possibly need to be used carefully by anyone with MH Issues. I could imagine (far too easily) these things taking you into some dark recesses that should really only be attempted under supervision.
Kept as fun, and doodling: great idea! Could get obsessional: bad.
That isn't supposed to be as parade-raining as it may sound. I just add a word of caution, as one who has BTDT, ((((shudder)))
Nel (GQ)
Not pretty, from the inside or as an observer. ((((((Nel))))))
Do you remember these?
Ah Kate,
you take the words right out of my mouth; I thought 'But that's what I've been doing for years during school lessons and phone calls. Bit rich to sell the whole as a kit...'
U.
Coming from the point of view of a mentally non-obsessive (at least I think so) zentangler, I have found them quite helpful as a relaxation exercise. I don't have the kit or anything other than a set of fine point permanent markers I bought with a coupon at a local art store when I decided I liked the exercise. If my mind is doing it's hamster wheel act or worse, running around like a headless chicken, I can sit down for ten minutes or so and doodle one of these which seems to switch off my mind's white noise. When I'm finished, I can resume my thoughts in a nicely ordered fashion. Very much like taking time to meditate, but for me the results are quicker. Plain doodling doesn't force me to pay attention to details, where zentangling with it's spatial constraints and repetitive nature does. In another life I used to do very intricate counted cross stitch to accomplish the same thing, but it isn't nearly as convenient as a pen and blank sheet of paper. I don't find the resulting designs "pretty" in the conventional sense, but I do find them compelling as I do computer generated fractal patterns. Both have a very organic quality to them. I don't think I would quilt them though unless I started with a blank sandwich and just zentangled with my machine. The whole point is not to correct mistakes (which is why you use ink), adjust or measure, just go with the flow. I have to do a lot of them before a universally pleasing one appeared.
Diana - PA
On Sep 22, 3:56=A0am, Sartorresartus wrote:
YES! Someone else who gets it! THANK YOU! (....and VERY nice work!)
Doc
Thank you.
I did some of them while invigilating A level exams! Terrible confession, but in 'those days' you didn't really need to go marching up and down invigilating actively, and I spent most of that exam period invigilating one or two students in minority subjects, or the occasional one that needed to be isolated and take their exam at a different time from the rest because of a clash of subjects (exams in different subjects from different boards being scheduled for the same morning or afternoon slot: the kids who are taking the exam at the 'proper' time need to be kept separate from the ones taking theirs later, and I often mopped up the over-lunch nannying or the afternoon one or two people when the other 20 had done whatever it was in the morning while these were doing a different subject exam).
For all the Yanks.... means "proctor".
Doc
For all the Yanks.... means "proctor".
Doc
Thanks, Doc! Invigilating wasn't to be found in my handy dictionary.
So, am I'm a "yank" or a "yankee?"
Donna in WA
Definition of YANK : yankee
Lots of leeway for that one, depending on who is referring to whom.
Doc
Definition of YANK : yankee
Lots of leeway for that one, depending on who is referring to whom.
Doc
Yeah, because a yank can also mean a jerk. ;0
Donna in WA
Yes, a yank can - but not a Yank (it has its own derogations).
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