Sunday, September 18, 2016

IS IT DOODLING OR ZENTANGLING?

LINEAR TEXTURE WITH WATERCOLOR
7TH GRADE ART WHEEL - 4TH QUARTER - 2015-2016
watercolor & pen & ink

I left the names of these art students at school 
so tomorrow I will insert them,
but I wanted to post tonight so my new 7th graders 
could see some amazing designs for their next assignment.

The new catchword for this kind of art is called Zentangling.
When I was growing up in the 60' & 70's, 
and scrawling this on the outside of my Pee Chee (folder), 
it was called doodling.
I still feel like it's doodling.
But man oh man,
is it popular right now. 
 Walk into any Michaels or JoAnns and you will massive amounts of books on the subject.
And now they are taking the Zentangle designs
 and putting them into Coloring Books which are also taking off in popularity across the country.
Let's take a look at these very talented 7th grade designs.

Helena Ebalobar  & Aden Gomez

Shukthi Senthilraj & Amrita Vinjamury

Kamilah Islam

Danielle Louie & Sachi Nandedkar

Samantha Yamaguchi & Reese Guitche

Elu Loquias Malena Santos

2 comments:

  1. Having very briefly tried Zentangling, I realized the discipline required was very similar to my stitching. So the efforts displayed here are much appreciated. Two stand out for me: the golden quarter mandala and the friends & family tree. Both display exceptional consistency of form which nonetheless encourages the eye to keep looking.

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  2. Wow! I'm not much interested in the coloring books for actual coloring, but I love the designs. Your students have created fascinating designs!

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