A couple of years ago I read about zendoodles, or zentangles. It is glorified doodling. Basically, you draw a shape, divide it into sections, and fill each section with different patterns. I've done this with my students, and they love it, and they look pretty cool. The method has done a lot to influence my sketchbook. I keep a small "travel journal" in my purse. I like to record places I've been to in it. But along with traditional sketches and notes, I make a zendoodle, filling spaces with patterns and images of where I have been. I kind of like them. To most people they may appear to be just color and line, but to me everything has a meaning. Traditional zendoodles are black and white, but my favorites use lots of color.
This is one I did at the Solid Sound festival this past June. It was a rainy weekend, so there were not that many great opportunities to draw for the first day and a half. Most of it was done on Sunday. Half is devoted to T-shirts.
This is the one I did from the year before, same festival.
I like the 2010 one better. But I was sitting in a sunny field drawing as opposed to the first one where it was damp and muddy - not very conducive to sketching.
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