And a Good Doodley Day To You

Here is today's' Fun Doodle 

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Cro-Tangle Project

There is a special inspirational challenge on a group I'm in on Ravelry at the moment.

We have to create a crochet or knitted piece of work that uses Zentangles as its inspiration.

I have completed my Zen Art Doodle for this project, and now I am starting to create the crochet to match the tangles.

I will reveal the parts of the Art Doodle one bit at a time over the coming weeks or days as I complete the crochet bit that goes with the doodle.

This is the part of the art doodle that I chose to do first.

And here is my first part crocheted.

Now to experiment with more stitches for another part of it.

I'm having fun, and stretching my creativity all at the same time, lol.

Collaboration Piece - Escher, Ria Hooghiemstra & ME

The Process of Producing a Piece of Art - How an Art Piece Develops

 Includes progress photos.

This piece is rather unusual. 

It started with Ria Hooghiemstra being inspired by some art of the famous M C Escher.

Then I was inspired by Ria's drawing and carried on with the design in my own way.

Here is Ria's 'Escher inspired' birds drawing in different colourways.

This is Ria's line drawing...

...and here is my line drawing, hand drawn straight from the screen.

Then comes my Zen Art Doodling additions.

The following progress photos show how the work changes at almost every step of the way.

When creating these Mandala style artworks, care must be taken to 'copy' the exact action (drawing) in each of the same segments around the piece. Complete all the same segments in the same way before moving on to the next area.

When all the doodling has been completed, it is time to create shadows to make the piece 'pop' in glorious 3-D.

I hope you enjoyed that little Mandala exercise.

Thank you Ria Hooghiemstra for the invitation to 'do something' with your drawing. It was fun.