Doodled hair lady

My online scrap buddy showed some great pieces using the letraset pro markers.  I remembered that I had received a set of promarkers  in a RAK.  I was so inspired by her work that I made this doodled hair lady using the markers.  Check out Marcy's  blog post  here.  She gave me great tips for blending which I hope to incorporate the next time I use the markers.

Also entered: Sistah Brotha Blogger Challenge #12

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Zentangle inspired earrings

I made these earrings as taught by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer.  I used to watch her on Scrapbook Memories all the time.  Unfortunately, the TV show is no longer broadcast in my area.  I was not sure that I would like having a pair of earrings with two different designs, but I am embracing their 'lovely mismatched uniqueness'.

I neglected to photograph the back, but it is zentangled also.

Hmmmm I NEED a bracelet (LOL)

White cs

pigma micron pen .01 black

Anita's glossy polyutherane

eyelets

Jewelry findings

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Zen-doodle card

I stumbled across a challenge.  See the details of the challenge on the Stampin Dymonz Creative Place blog 

The card had to be Zen tangled on the front and back.  The pens soaked through the paper, so I lined the inside with a second 4.25 x 5.5 piece of white card stock.  The lady is a stamp by rubbernecker.

I wanted to add a little color...

  

The criteria of the challenge also required  a Zen tangled border on the inside.  I will probably stamp a sentiment later.

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I could've been a professional doodler

Remember in school when you would zone out during a boring lecture and doodle all over your notebook?  I did that all the time.  Many of my tablets were sprinkled with pages of my mental wanderings.  I had no idea that I was actually making art.  Today these controlled doodles are cleverly called Zentangles.  I believe the phrase was coined by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas.  Zentangles are so relaxing to do; hence "Zen".  I carry scraps of paper in my purse so I can doodle when I am waiting at the doctors office or anywhere really.  Then I use the back of the finished work to write a  note to include in RAK packages or as tags on gifts.  Other possibilities for using them are endless: mixed media, altered art, greeting cards, decoupage, art journals etc.  Now if only I had kept those notebooks from school...lol

I made this one last year, this was my first one.  Yeah..uhhh..my sharpie marker was way too thick.   Now I use a pigma micron pen.
                                                                          

I did this one while I was on the phone and added a splash of color.

My online buddy, Sherry inspired me to try this art form (thanks Sherry).  She creates wonderful Zentangle inspired projects. I first saw her Zentangle inspired work in another forum but I later found a few examples on her blog too:  http://gotart4u.blogspot.com/2010/08/psychedelic-girl.html  and http://gotart4u.blogspot.com/2010/01/oh-oh-new-obsession.html  It would be nice to really be good at this, like some of the projects I have seen;  but for now I just keep having fun doing such a relaxing art form.  Here are a few more:

Thanks Angie from the http://www.theblingtheory.blogspot.com/ for inspiring me to revisit this art form and I plan to try using the zig markers.