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Thinking Inside the Lines
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BY MIMI CALHOUN ILLUSTRATIONS BY JULIA GREENWOOD LINES
Free Hand
Regardless of someone’s artistic skill level, art is for everyone. One simple way to relax while tapping into creativity is through zentangles. Zentangles are easy doodles that focus on pattern and simplicity. They are known to help calm people down and are even considered meditative due to their repetitive nature. Anyone can create a zentangle, and all you need are two materials and some time.
1. Take a preferred writing utensil and scribble shapes without lifting it up from the paper. There is no uniformity to this, so draw circles, ovals, or any other desired shape. Make sure to connect the lines so there are no openings. 2. Fill the small sections with any sort of pattern. Hearts, dots, lines, squiggles, or squares. There is no wrong design.
Circles
Materials Needed:
1. Plain Paper 2. Favorite pens, pencils, or markers
1. Draw different sized circles on a piece of paper, and don’t worry about how circular they actually are. 2. Fill each one with patterns. Utilize multiple patterns in each circle or stick to one design. Play with the empty space by adding color or a black and white theme.
Spiral
1. Starting from the middle of the page, make a line curving towards the edge of the page. Continue until there are multiple lines going off the page. 2. Turn those lines into sections by adding patterns into the empty space. Experiment with different designs as you work with negative space, textures, and colors.
NOW IT’S YOUR TURN:
