Yesterday, I was watching a video about doodles, and saw an artist explaining her process for doodling on top of her painted papers. Her work was beautiful and I was very inspired to try her method. It did not look very hard and did not look like I needed to be ultra-talented to make something beautiful myself. I sat at my art table and applied watercolor in splotches all over the paper and then waited for that to dry. She said to Google “patterns” to find things to use to put on your painting, so I tried that but did not really find anything useful. I remembered that somewhere I had a Zentangle book so I frantically looked for it. I found one but not the one I was looking for. Oh well.
When my paper was dry, I began by using waterproof ink marker and doodled circles of various sizes and placements on my paper. Then I started doodling on the painting. At first, it was really hard to focus and to decide what and where to put my doodles. After about 15 minutes of this, I started to relax and get into this process. It was like meditation. I just doodled around the paper, adding color here and there. I was shocked when I saw that I had been doing this for 2 hours! It felt like 10 minutes.
This process was very enjoyable and I plan to continue. There are several articles online that say doodling is a gateway to your creativity; I have to agree with them on that. If you just put pen to paper and just make doodles, you will zone out eventually and your creativity will take over. I hope you try this out for yourself to see how enjoyable this process is.
So, here is a picture of my piece:
Here are the videos I watched:
and here,
I hope you try this out for yourself. I am going to make another today, just for fun!
If you like this, check out my art journaling post here.
