From: WeasleyI'm up for a watertown dinner !I did see an article on zentangles - see the website zentangle.com.They sell a kit for $50, but the article I read gives the basics - draw 4 dots, connect them. Then draw pencil lines inside - like a piece of thread that falls all over. Within each one of these areas, draw a repeated pattern(circle, squiggle, line, dot, etc.etc). Continue doing this in each area.There's probably a lot more to it than that, but it looks like you could definitely do it on a napkin.
From: Batsy
If you go to the zentangles website and look at their newsletters they give a detailed diagram in almost each letter. After looking at a bunch, it seems like someone has diagrammed doodling and is making money on it.
Sounds to me like a plurality for zentangles. I suspect we can finger this out without purchasing the $50 set - if someone wanted to figure out and pre-string a 9-tile "ensemble," we could do them separately and put them together to make a collaborative effort. If that ain't signif, we can each just try to do one or two. A newspaper article listed 'em as 3 1/2 " square, and I presume that's the paper, not the four dots. See "letters" or the gallery for more zenxamples. You might wanna bring snappy paper and archival ink, but I plan to bring pencil and eraser, a narrow sharpie and not-so-wonderful paper to start, but don't let my hallmark temerity preclude your starting out all effulgent and perdurable and evanescent without excrescence.
Phew, I got all my vocabulary words into one paragraph. Next month, "corporeal" and "putrefaction," among others.
This activity might be a bit intense for restaurant napkins, but Casa ArrBee in tony Somerville (I think Tony played the undercover beach ball in Beach Blanket Bunko) is available, and will still have Halloween decor around, no doubt. So unless there is a groundswell to go out to a restaurant one month before our Winter Solstice Fandango (slated to be at Marie Mack's on Tuesday 8 Dec - mock your calendars (nyah, nyah, you don't have enough weekdays!)), I'd propose y'all wend your merry ways here on:
Tuesday 3 Nov 2009 7ish
Arr Bee's Umble Habode, Sumvul
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Sounds good – I suggested the restaurant when we didn’t have a project.
I can duplicate a few things if you wish, and I will certainly have my notebook available for perusal. I even have the patent information that has exactly what’s in the kit, but you don’t even need that, just the patterns for a jumping-off point. I’ll see if I can dig up my other pattern info and books. We can invent some new ones!
“There's probably a lot more to it than that” – actually there isn’t. There’s a die and a legend of patterns that you can use if you don’t have the imagination to choose a pattern for each part of the “string” but I think we can manage without that! Drawing the repetitive patterns is supposed to produce a meditative state, just like anything that’s done with concentration.
Leslie, thanks for suggesting this – I thought about it, but didn’t think it would fly. I could use some meditation about now.
Pampy
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