Just Another Day of Pen and Ink

Took three days, actually, to finish this piece. This one is meant more to showcase my patterns so that when I'm making a design and I feel stumped, I can reference this. I notice I'm less geometric in my designing.

Mostly exhausted the last few days. All set to go back to work on that evil day, Monday. I know I'll go through spells like this, so fingers crossed that this is the last before January. :-)

I love this article

Doodles and Zentangles - About.com

She says exactly what I feel. I resent someone coming along and copyrighting/trademarking the very idea of the same type of thing I've done since I was 15, then saying that theirs is better because they make it meditative. Art is very much a method of connecting to the paper and pen. It's a form of mindfulness. I now mentally fume when working on my art because just getting my pens I really didn't want people to think I was tangling when I'm creating my art/doodles.

Brain Yoga Doodles! Just kidding :) Just Happy Doodles

My art is not a zen anything, but it is yoga for the soul.  I liked making these much like in school. The main difference now from twenty years ago was that I included more dragon scales and wings in my doodles then and now I have more swirls. I use most of the same patterns. I really have been missing this. I started to do it a little bit on my not yet finished owl drawing (that is further in this blog.) 

 These babies need a name! My daughter thinks I could or should sell them. 

It's a two piece set. 

Just a Preview

I spent yesterday mostly on the couch with my sweetheart, since I was so heavily fatigued. It allowed me time to draw and decorate two homemade envelopes for two of my penpals (I'll show them after I send them) and to start this 11x14 drawing in pen and ink. I didn't realize how much my hands were shaking when I took the photo, sorry. This is only one third of the picture, a dragon triskele of sorts. It hasn't gone quite as planned, but I plan to make another after this to see if I get the form a bit more the way I desire. 

No arting today. Neck is in knots and the headache is severe. I'm proud of where my art is going, however. Any fellow artists know an awesome paper for pen and ink with added watercolor elements that won't buckle? I'll use the color in this one, but probably mostly dry color.