Many decades ago, I loved to make paisley patterns. Recently, my brother returned to me copies of things he saved of my artwork from when I was only fourteen years old. He had used my illustrations as tickets and framing his posters for a movie he'd shot about surfing.
I thought... Oh, maybe I could do more of that sort of thing...
Then I discovered that since then, some artists had turned the fine art of doodling into a way of teaching people to make art. They originated this "step out" process to show people what to do to make cool illustrations.
Here's an illustration I did when I attended one of these classes. Of course, it was pretty ironic to pay to learn how to do something that I'd been already doing since I was fourteen years old!
It was cool though that some artists had codified this process into a series of art classes, which allowed artists to get paid to teach art to other people...who enjoyed doing it as a form of "mindfulness." It's called "ZenTangle" and there are piles of books on doing it at the library these days. I checked out ALL of them - and I have enjoyed immensely looking at all of these variations on doodling.
I love the experience of being in art classes. In fact, I think I studied art just because I enjoyed the environment of making art with other people...who were making art alongside me. As it turned out, I didn't really enjoy making art when I had to sit there by myself. Even now, I prefer making art where I can talk to people who can see me making the art.
Of course, nowadays, we have fun things such as video blogging while you're doing whatever you'd like to be doing. Maybe I should skip doing this blog with photos and start publishing what I've been doing on Periscope.tv Here I was just doodling and talking about resisting what we love to do...
https://www.periscope.tv/w/1OyJAplwrwNGb
Hope you enjoy that I'm posting on my blog again...
