Zentangle Art

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I love it when an artist starts an new movement based on an old concept. Really, the idea of a mental meditation dates way back in ancient Chinese history. Taoism influenced the landscape hand scrolls. Zen Buddhism influenced the Japanese brushwork and the beautiful 'void' or negative space that is seen in many of the early asian works.

So this new concept of mental-meditative drawing has been around as long as humans have been but I'm not being sarcastic when I say I love an artist stepping forward and bringing this to the public's attention again because we forget. We forget too easily how important this mental process is to the artist's creation and to the artist's mental health.

After all, the journey truly is more important than the destination so I applaud the artists who created the new/old concept of Zentangle.