Different Strokes Creative Learning & Activity Centre, Indiranagar, Bangalore.
March 23, 2014.
My first Zentangle!
The participants spend about an hour-and-a-half learning the rules, names, and the structure on how to create Zentangles, only to be told by Malathi, "Now break the rules!" Now, what?
Zentangle, I guess like any other art form, needs to be learnt within a structure, to enable practitioners to get comfortable with themselves and the art. Then, the limitations that the structure defines need to be loosened and let go.
As we get familiar with the basic patterns and how to draw them, we almost inadvertently let go of the limitations. It's a cycle, draw within the structure, let go, soar and create. Set a new limitation, draw within that limitation, let go, and soar higher. And again, and again!
Is there no end? There are infinite possibilities. We realize that we cannot create an exact replica of a zentangle, even if we have "tangled" the original ourselves. Every one is an original!
Here's my first zentangle.
Cheers!
March 23, 2014.
My first Zentangle!
The participants spend about an hour-and-a-half learning the rules, names, and the structure on how to create Zentangles, only to be told by Malathi, "Now break the rules!" Now, what?
Zentangle, I guess like any other art form, needs to be learnt within a structure, to enable practitioners to get comfortable with themselves and the art. Then, the limitations that the structure defines need to be loosened and let go.
As we get familiar with the basic patterns and how to draw them, we almost inadvertently let go of the limitations. It's a cycle, draw within the structure, let go, soar and create. Set a new limitation, draw within that limitation, let go, and soar higher. And again, and again!
Is there no end? There are infinite possibilities. We realize that we cannot create an exact replica of a zentangle, even if we have "tangled" the original ourselves. Every one is an original!
Here's my first zentangle.
Cheers!
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