It’s time for Art
Lit!
Inspired by
Illustrators
If
you do not have the materials for this project at home, use what you do have.
Just get creative!
Zen Doodle Art Lit
Project Inspiration
An
illustrator is an artist who draws
or creates pictures for magazines, books, advertising, etc.
Some
examples are:
Day and Night by M.C Esher
The Tale of Squire Nutkin by Beatrix Potter
Wild Rumpus by
Mauric Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are)
Examples of Zen
Doodles by Paula Dickerhoff:
Who Says the Owl
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Materials Needed:
Paper
Pencil
Black
marker
Optional
items: colored pencils, markers, crayons
Project, step by
step directions:
Step 1
Practice different doodle patterns.
On
a piece of blank paper, practice some of the base doodle shapes and patterns.
(See directions below.)
a)
Raindrop
b)
Rainbow
c)
Circles,
squares, triangles
d)
Spirals
e)
Wavy
Lines, Zig Zag Lines
f)
Hashing
lines
Raindrop
Draw
a raindrop shape.
Start
at the tip, follow the shape, and draw another, larger raindrop around the
first one.
Keep
repeating until you are happy with the size.
Rainbow
Draw
a small, upside down U shape.
Draw
a larger U shape, following the same shape as the first one.
Keep
repeating until you are happy with the size.
Circles, squares,
triangles
Draw
a circle, square, or triangle.
Draw
a smaller circle, square, or triangle inside the larger one.
Keep
repeating until you are happy with the size.
Spirals
Draw
a circle that does not fully touch, start to curve in, toward the center.
Try
a square or triangle.
Wavy lines and Zig
Zag Lines
To
fill a cell or space, use your pencil/pen to draw a wavy line.
Try
thick lines, thin lines, drawing the wavy lines close together or farther
apart.
Hashing lines
Draw
four short lines, one over the other to make a square.
Draw
four short lines, next to each other to make a square.
Repeat,
drawing the blocks of lines close to each other.
Step 2. Choose your subject.
On a new piece of paper, use a pencil to
lightly draw a large, simple subject; fish, butterfly, flower, heart, bird,
trace your hand (Or, an adult’s hand! It will be larger).
Step 3
Trace the shape with a marker, pen or Sharpie.
Step 4
Draw lines
to create cells or shapes.
Step 5
Choose any
of the Zen Doodle patterns from your practice page to fill in the open shapes.
Step 6
Keep going
until all of the cells are filled. Then, make some lines thicker, add dots or
extra lines, add a smile.
You can use
markers, colored pencils or crayon if you want to color your Zen Doodle!
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