Zen Doodling

Doodling has been seen as a mindless pursuit-until now. People are discovering the hidden discipline, order, and joy behind artful scribbles. Idiot's Guide: Zen Doodling gives readers all they need to get started or to continue the practice of using ordered, repeated "e;tangle"e; designs to create composite doodles that are great creative expression as well as works of art unto themselves.In this book readers get:-- Materials and methods for getting started with meditative patterned drawing.-- Basic art instruction for creating patterns and forms that achieve beauty through unity and balance.-- Artistic insight into using different papers, pens, pencils, markers, and paints to take tangles to the next level.-- Step-by-step instructions for drawing more than 20 doodle forms and filling them with tangle patterns, with each new stroke highlighted by color.-- Dozens of new step-by-step tangles to try, with a foundation for creating others based on the same artistic and natural concepts.-- A swatchbook of 50 more tangles and textures to use in your own doodles.-- Inspirational finished doodles and ideas for jumpstarting artistic creativity.