If you'd like to see how I incorporated Zendoodling into my art journal page you can have a look here. It's part of an art journal page - in fact, it creates the background, is meant to look like something (which is what makes it a Zendoodle rather than a Zentangle) and it certainly was created in a meditative state, filling all the little components I had drawn took hours. Zendoodling is very much like Zentangling - with the same repeating and meditative patterns but with no restrictions on shape, size or colour. Think of a Zendoodle or Zentangle Inspired Art (Z.I.A.) as using the same or similar tangle patterns to create the image, but with Zendoodling you could draw a leaf outline and then fill it with tangle patterns, you could add tangles to a portrait or even on a 3D object. Zendoodling has its roots in Zentangling and shares many similar qualities - focus, design, repetitive tangle patterns BUT it can be in colour, on any size paper, a specific shape (eg: word, letter, animal) and may have a top and bottom. and was created by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas. If you would like to learn more about Zentangle go right to the source Zentangle is a registered trademark of Zentangle, Inc. You can take a class from a Certified Zentangle Teacher in most countries worldwide, learn new ' Tangles' online and even purchase books with Tangle patterns and projects. These are some of the Zentangles I have created, as you can see they don't look like a particular 'thing', there is no up or down, they are black and white with some shading, they use named tangle patterns and most importantly they were created mindfully, with intention and focus on the process. If your Zentangle looks like something, it's no longer a Zentangle, but rather Zentangle Inspired Art (Z.I.A.) or a Zendoodle. Zentangles are constructed in black and white, should not look like 'something' and are absolutely NOT a mindless drawing activity, but rather created with purpose and intent. Tangles often have specific names and ways of drawing each pattern, in fact, there are books filled with tangle patterns! The act of creating a Zentangle is called 'tangling' and is a form of meditative art, where the artist focusses on creating each single line rather than a particular image. Zentangles are created on small 3.5" square paper tiles and are made up of a foundation of 'strings' which are used to define areas which are then filled with 'Tangles' (single repetitive patterns). Ceremony - sort of like a Japanese Tea ceremony for the mind!. Abstract - no up or down, non-representative - ie: it shouldn't look like 'something'.
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