I’ve been doing these while watching TV and waiting for Christmas to be over.   Halloween is my one and only holiday that I enjoy.  The rest are stressful.  But on to more fun things. 

As you can see,  you can use ANY kind of dot/swirl/line/or mistake to make a zentangle/doodle.  It’s very relaxing to do.  IF you let yourself have fun with it.  There are no rules.  If I get stuck on one,  I start another one.  In fact,  the first one I went back and added more stuff.  Just wasn’t busy enough for me.  The second one I decided I liked the simplicity of it.  The third one,  well,  I just kept going back and adding a little of this and a little of that. 

Did I hear someone say patterns?  Excuse me!  Get that outta your head right now!  You don’t neeeeed a pattern.  You neeeed to learn to have fun,  and not be  so critical of you, your stuff, your art.  Some of my best have started out being a big goof up.  But I gave it a chance,  and my self some slack.  Just kept working as if I was working on the best one yet.  Well,  sometimes it is the best one yet, then other times it’s just OK.  Nobodys wonderful every time.  And you have to do so many ok’s to get to the really good stuff.  Aren’t you glad all this advice is free?  Ha!

Another thing I heard… what kind of paper do you use?  Paper?  I use to use the phone book cover.  Filled that up,  moved to the A’s.  We didn’t know many A people.    So I just doodled over them.  I’ve also used restaurant napkins,  envelopes, bills,  report cards, old books,  and a occassional  menu.  If I have to wait entirely too long in a doctor’s office… the magazines are not safe.   There are no rules.   This is not rocket science.  Let’s have some fun here.

OK,  I’m off to the studio to do some harm to something.  I’m looking forward to getting paint EVERYWHERE!  Have a creative day…  and take another look at that phone book cover….. xoxo