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What is
Zentangler?
Many people doodle.
Doodles can be lots of fun, and are often done in the margins of notebooks or
on scrap paper. Doodle can sometimes be quite beautiful
But doodles are usually created during times when the person making them is having trouble paying attention or while something else is going on--like a lecture or a phone call. Though some of the best doodles can look similar to Zentangles, they're actually very different.
But doodles are usually created during times when the person making them is having trouble paying attention or while something else is going on--like a lecture or a phone call. Though some of the best doodles can look similar to Zentangles, they're actually very different.
Zentanlges are not
doodles at all. Zentangling (‘tangling’) requires a great deal
of focus. Unlike doodling, the person
creating a Zentangle gives it their full attention while they are working on
it.
In short, a Zentangle
is an abstract drawing created using a series of patterns. The idea is to make the act of drawing a totally pleasurable experience and doable by anyone. It is a happy experience
where mistakes do not exist. Lines and patterns take you on sort of a journey. No plans are involved. The “tanlger” is encouraged to simply go, and
go, and go.
For this workshop,
the Culture Camp version invites the CCamper into the experience of ‘tangling.’ Once accomplished, the ideas behind ‘tangling’
will find new forms and places—ways of elaborating on the idea—while finding different
objects to tangle on (such shrink film and ceramic).
