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Zen-doodling

Visual Arts
A drawing made with black marker and pencil using the e method to separate patterns shows a square filled with four different patterns. There is a pattern of leaves, a pattern of pyramids, a pattern of concentric squares, and a pattern of half circles and dots.
Drawing by Elizabeth Lokon
A drawing made with black marker and pencil using the e method to separate patterns shows a square filled with four different patterns. There is a pattern of leaves, a pattern of pyramids, a pattern of concentric squares, and a pattern of half circles and dots.
Drawing by Elizabeth Lokon

How To Do It

  • Supplies: Plain square paper (3-4 inches square), a black fine-tipped marker, a pencil.
  • Use a pencil and make four dots in the corners of the paper and connect them to create a border/frame.
  • Use a pencil to draw a letter ‘z” or lower case “e” to divide up your square into four areas.
  • Choose the first area and use the pen to draw the first pattern (lines, dots, spirals, half circles, squiggly lines, zigzags, etc.).
  • Continue filling out the other three areas using a different pattern for each area.
  • Use the pencil to add shading.
  • Sign your tile.

Questions

  1. Do you doodle? If yes, when do you doodle and how does it make you feel?
  2. Did you find this activity relaxing?
  3. What do you do to relax?
  4. Are you interested in doing meditation? Why or why not?
  5. What other forms of relaxation practices would you like to learn? Why do you want to learn them?
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