Guess I had nothing interesting to say. Just felt like playing with the Staedtler Triliners and the need quickly moved toward Tombow ABT brush markers. I always find it fascinating how one medium can literally take five minutes to morph into a scene while another takes about two hours to morph into something like this. Maybe once I'm more acclimated to the brush markers' blending capabilities, I'll learn a few shortcuts to make it look more seasoned with less work. In other news, I really like the neon aspect of this particular Staedtler triliner colour. Wow is it... well, neon!20190101
It is... A new year.
Guess I had nothing interesting to say. Just felt like playing with the Staedtler Triliners and the need quickly moved toward Tombow ABT brush markers. I always find it fascinating how one medium can literally take five minutes to morph into a scene while another takes about two hours to morph into something like this. Maybe once I'm more acclimated to the brush markers' blending capabilities, I'll learn a few shortcuts to make it look more seasoned with less work. In other news, I really like the neon aspect of this particular Staedtler triliner colour. Wow is it... well, neon!
zentangle
In Junior High, Mum had noticed that I often wrote words on paper and would then trace around them over and over (spacing in between lines) until they overlapped. Sometimes I'd add shapes in there to add additional visual interest. Usually it was in black ink, but sometimes I'd do colours. Or paints. Or whatever. Anywho, she watched me at one point and commented that I must be subconsciously keeping myself from going crazy. Her opinion was that I was reorganizing my brain by doing that tedious work over and over like that and it was a sign of how much of a mental disorder I must have.
At the time I just shrugged that off as whatever you say, I'm busy enjoying myself over here. But now, I took out the nice new box of Staedtler triliners (thank you K&F and N&J!) and thought huh, I wonder how zentangle got its name? Because, I remember zentangle from when Mary took some class and showed me the elements of it... and also remember thinking of how similar it is to my previous line-workings of years past... which I occasionally still do.
Zentangle.com's explanation was of interest. It's basically meditation using repetitious shapes and "tangling" them together. While there, I found an interesting design and decided to copy it, and as I did so to some extent, remembered all of the above and found it ironic. Mum said I was crazy and drawing this way was a symptom of that. Meanwhile, people everywhere are doing zentangles as a way to simply relax and meditate, often to better cope with the stresses of their worlds.
I guess Mum was right about one thing: Such repetitious work does indeed allow the brain to reorganize itself.
Oh, and today's zentangle. :)
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