Zentangle+2

Start Date: May 2, 2012 Finish Date: May 2, 2012

In the last project I did I discussed my interest in the art of Zentangle. I decided I wanted to do another and once again went to the blog about Zentangles that I found yesterday, I was instructed to use a pencil to draw 2 'strings' in any way that I wanted. That left me with the white wave that is in the foreground of the paper. Then I worked on the pattern on the bottom of the picture. I started by drawing what seems to me as shreds of paper going in all directions and then used a form of pointillism to lightly shade the background. After that portion of the picture was done, I sat in my AP. US History class and continued to work on this picture, this time focusing on the top of the paper. My friend Logan suggested that I do the same 'shreds' of paper design on the exterior of the wave, but added that I should switch up the design part. I drew the main design and then started to place circles around the shreds, then I used the same pointillism technique to lightly shade the shreds of the main design. I think this is one of the coolest things I've created, and was really excited to show my teacher the final product. I think it's really interesting how easy it was to create this piece even though I only used three different techniques -line, dot, and circle. To me this picture looks like something you'd see in a Biology textbook of DNA or other cells. I thoroughly enjoyed creating this piece.