Ink is Noodler's Brown
Pen is an IPG nib in my Edison Glenmont. Somewhere between F and M. Smoothed by Brian to somewhere near perfection.
Paper is HP 32#




Large

Wow! Very nice, James.

Cool. Did you start with that little swirl right in the middle of the page?

Wow, that is awesome!

Ive never seen anything quite like that! How long did it take to do? And, more importantly, how much ink did it use?
Tawanda

Very nice work.

Mus have been a very boring case though. . .



John

Yeah, it starts with the little curly in the middle.

I do not know how long it takes, perhaps a month or two, working on it about 10 minutes per day. I take it out when I am sitting on the phone, or waiting for a database.

It does not take that much ink, probably twice as much as it would take to write a page.

Hi Jim: I used to do something similar and thought mine were neat until I saw this, and the blue!! What do you do with them once they are done? Maybe auction one, or more, for donations to FPN? I will bid!!!! Tom

Whoa!


I was not expecting that!


Very cool!

Actually, I was thinking, "Now THAT was a lonnnggg meeting!"



(tells you what I do when it comes to meetings...)

I would frame that...seriously...

That's really cool.

Wow ! thats nice.
Were you being punished ?

How do you not go blind?

I need to go take a couple aspirin and lie down for a while.

But it's a seriously nice doodle/mandala/garden layout/monkey puzzle/placemat design.

My current bunch of lines is being made with Baystate Blue, and it does make me blind.

Equally beautiful to your blue 'lines!'

Wow, that's very inspiring. It appears that it would make good practice at keeping your hand steady, drawing smooth lines, and also practicing spacing of the lines. How careful are you while making the lines to be consistent with the spacing and shaping? I should say, do you just draw them automatically, or do you devote lots of concentration to making it "perfect"?

I'm not careful with spacing, the lines just come out. I have tried to put some guides on the paper, in pencil, that I can follow and then erase, but those just never look right. These are totally organic, I just grab the pen and start pushing it around.

It also looks as though you are 'building' from the outside to the center. Is this true?

Again, super-cool!

I start in the middle. There is a spiral close to the middle of the page; that's the first line.

That is really cool. Doodle art. Definitely should be displayed.

So I got it totally backwards!

Figures---I'm left-handed.

Hi James,

That is really cool!! Looks like the type of things I draw when I doodle. Maybe I should be saving my doodles.

This looks a lot like something I have come across called zentangles, www.zentangles.com. There is a website and you can buy a kit with a book, mini DVD, 34 - 3 1/2" square tiles, two Sakura Pigment pens, two pencils and sharpener. I don't want to buy the whole kit to find out if I like it or not but they have some really cool designs that people have done. I just want the instructions to see how it is done. They claim when you sit down to do one of these they get into a kind of meditative state. Did you get into a meditative state while working on this piece?

I was thinking about trying my hand at something like this on my own. When I doodle I always do cool geometric shapes, but I never save any of them. I wonder how many I could have sold...smile. I am inspired to try my hand and maybe post something to the board sometime.

Take care and keep on doodling!!

James E. Merritt