Shut-eye string

Zentangle weekly challenge number three: draw the pencil string with your eyes shut! This was very interesting. I 'stringed'* two tiles, and thought I was making big hand movements, but when I opened my eyes the string was rather tight and didn't look very interesting. But I persevered.

This is the first tile I did. I really like how it's off-center and sort of bundled or compact with lots of white space.

Frankly, it was so interesting I had to do another.









Below is the second one. I thought it needed the bubbles on the right to balance it. The shading doesn't show up very well.

I like this method! I'm a bit of a control freak when it comes to my art, but I also recognize that often the best work happens when I don't really know what's going on. So anything like this that takes control out of my hands is probably a good thing. :-)

I'm looking forward to using this method again, but right now... MY ELDEST DAUGHTER IS GETTING MARRIED ON SATURDAY AND THINGS ARE A LITTLE BUSY AROUND HERE!!!


* There. We now have a new Zentangle-inspired verb: "to string".  In context: "I stringed the tabletop and then tangled it with a Sharpie."