The Quiet Side

Exploring the unseen benefits of creative focus.

Create:  :  to bring into existence

One of my favorite Bijouisms*, Create. It seems so daunting and so complicated – but all you need to do is put pen to paper and draw something.

Someone said you need to do something ten thousand times to be good at it. Most of us have been taking pen or pencil in hand since before we were in school. Our strokes were curves, lines, dots and orbs before we knew how to write our names – so taking a pen to paper to tangle, is really something we have been doing our whole lives.

Zentangle puts a mindful process around an art form that has existed for a long long time. We all have the ten thousand strokes practice, so lets use that for our benefit and create.

Bijou* is a little mascot of Zentangle and has lots of little inspirational phrases about Zentangle. Read more about Bijou here.

Try This

Even if you have never tried Zentangle, take a pen to paper, relax into a moment and create a little work of art just for you. You know how to do it, lines, dots, curves and orbs are just waiting in your pen. Fill a paper with a bunch of them.

deliberate – still – appreciate – quiet – focus – trust – deconstruct – beautiful – reflect – relax – discover – create – comfort – shade – breathe – inspire – be bold – embellish – savor – slow – calm – admire

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