Mindful Grid Art

1. Introduction: Are you always busy? And if your head maybe overflowing, then you need a break. And maybe this course will help you to take that break. I'm Ana Peron Saluna. I'm an artist. I'm a professional messmaker, and I'm a teacher. And I used to be really like you. I used to be goal driven, and I used to be on the go all the time. And I didn't want that to happen again. So that's how I found mindful art. Mindful art helped me to pause. It helped me to take a break. I can recharge for my new projects. It helped me to get those creative uses flowing again. That's one I went for you. This course is about mindful grid art, and mindful grid art is a variation on mindful art. It's just easier for me to apply because it gets less pressure and it allows you to do it in a way that suits you. In this course, I'm going to teach you various techniques. But in a way, so you can apply them in a way that suits you, but also make them more for yourself, make them more your own. Be mindful art, you don't make it for others, you make it for yourself. It's not for that end result, it's for that process. The process you're going through, and you don't need to be creative at all. Be this course is for every level, it's for everyone who just needs a break. You can do this wherever and whenever, and I'm going to show you how. 2. Class Project: For this class project, you're going to make some mindful art with the grit technique. You can upload your work to the project section by going to the project section, press the button, submit project, fill in the details, and then upload. It's going to be so much fun to see each other's work because none of them will be the same. During this course, you will see how even your own work will look differently every time with each rule you're going to use. You can also show your work and Instagram if you'd like. Don't forget to tag me because I still want to see it, if you would like to leave a review, I would be so grateful. That will only make me become a better teacher, but will also help others to find this course more easy. By leaving review, you go to review section, click the leave a reviewed button, and then you're done. 3. Tools: The materials that I use during this course are this is just a regular plain and simple drawing block, and it has 200 GSM and a five size plain and white. You can use every drawing paper. You can use every watercolor mixed media paper you want. But I actually like the smooth surface. The reason why because I use a fine liner, a lot of times with a fine liner, It's better for your pen and it's easier to use when the surface is smooth. But if you use watercolor, you cannot use regular printer paper because with printer paper, it's just gets all bubbly and the result is not that nice. But if it works for you, it works for you. I use that paper, but nine out of ten times I use a sketchbook because I love a sketchbook and take it all with me and bring it with me wherever I want. Feel free to use a sketchbook if that fits your needs even better. Nine and ten times I will use a fine liner. This is a micron, but I have different kinds of them. Different brands. But the reason why I use this one because it has archi full ink. That's because when I use, for example, watercolor. It is waterproof and fit proof. You don't have to. You can use whatever fining you have at home. You can even use it in different colors if you want to. But if just keep in mind when it's not cifle, you cannot paint on top of it because it will smudge. I use these are brush pints, these are ecline pints, but you can use whatever marker you have. You can kids marker, you can have water color mark or alcohol marker, just what gives you color. If it gives you color to use crayon, use a crayon. If that is to use a pencil, use a pencil. If that is to use paint, use paint. This is actually the paint that I'm using in this course, but it's a cur tachy, but you can use whatever paint you have. You can use acrylic paint, watercolor paint. You can use inks. You can use liquid watercolors. Use what you have at home. I'm going to show you the different strategies. I'm going to show you the basics and from there you can explore and make it your own. 4. Preparation of the Grid: Now we're going to start with preparations. The first preparation is to tape your paper down. I'm not being really precise about it because it's not about the end product. It's just about the process to be as precise as you want to be. I'm a real Mesmer, so I'm not always precise. If you have a sketch book, of course, you don't need to tape it down. But the thing you're going to do is the catch book as well is tape a grid. With the grid, I'm going for a fairly even grid, but you don't have to. I'm going to place it like somewhere in the middle. And make, I just make four squares. I'm going to make four little canvases, but you can make like six. You can make like 18. You can put the line not in the middle. You can even put it on the side. You can even put piece of tape here and a piece of tape here. Play with the grid you want. Because with this preparation phase is not only about taping it down and making your grid, this preparation phase is also about setting rules. Why do you set rules? You set rules so you don't have to clam up or you don't have to choke, you don't have to get nervous about starting. When you prep your canvas like first taping it down, it's already getting familiar with your canvas and where you're going to work. But setting your rules, you're going to make it easier for yourself. Rules, I'm not a rule baying person, but making rules is giving myself boundaries for my creativity, so I don't have to overthink things. For this particular grid, I'm going to use a small it's micron, a small fine liner. But I also want to have one with a thicker line. This is a brush pen. One of my rules is going to be that if I use patterns, I'm not going to use a pattern only in this particular canvas, I'm going to use it for each one of them. If I use a color. No, this is a water soluble one, but I'm not going to dilute it. The purple is not only going to go in this canvass, it's going to go in or each canvas. The same what I do with this marker. It's a brush pin. But you can use the felt pens or the brush pins your kid has lying around. Don't be precious about your supplies. These are rules I'm setting for this canvas, but the rules can be different for every canvas. I'll show you some different ideas. I'm going to show you some different setups in this course. For now, we're going to start with this and the materials I just laid down over here. 5. Technique #1: Like I said, I'm going to start with this fine liner, put the a the materials aside. And I'm not going to grab it like a pen because I want to have it more loose. I don't want to have the firm grip because it gives me control. One thing that I don't want to have here is control. I just wanted to surrender to the creative process, if you like, it's going to be mindful. I'm going to have my grip more here. I'm just going to let the pen wonder. I'm not even thinking about where it's going to go. I'm not even thinking about the tape. I'm just letting it wander until I think it's enough. And close this pen. I'm going to take my ticker line. I'm actually going to the same thing. Again, I'm not being precious thinking about it. I'm just going and still I think it's enough. I looks wily and wobbly. Well, it actually looks different each time I do this exercise. A lot of times I use this particular exercise, this particular set of rules because they're really comforting for me. After I'm done setting those rules, I have little parts that are canvases within a canvas that I'm going to use. I think I'm going to start with my fine liner. I'm going to start with now I'm going to rip it more like a pen and I'm going to start with one of the patterns that is most comfortable for me. It could be different for you, but for me it's a lines. I'm just going to pick one. I'm just going to pick this one and it doesn't matter which area you choose. I'm going to pick this one and When I'm setting those lines, I'm not thinking about this pacing. I'm not even thinking about having it really straight. I'm just trying to put it in this particular area if I go outside the area. It's fine too. The reason why I like those lines because for me, they represent order. When I have a chaotic head, that's when I usually use the mindful art, I need order just to get all the thoughts and the ideas in my head straightened out again. This is my first pattern, and I'm going to do the same pattern in this one as well, and I'm not going to think on which area I'm going to choos. I'm just picking one and I'm just going to this one. This is actually one of the easiest areas to pick because I don't have to think of the bottom part of this area because the line just go over the tape and you will not notice that I've been doing it. Like I said before it's, the process is not the end product, the end result, but you'll be surprised what the end result will bring. It will only bring you clarity in your head and give you some breathing space in your head again so you have room for other creative projects. You will probably end up with some pieces of art as well. I'm now going in fairly the same direction as I did with the others. But I actually don't have to. You know, I did one of those grids once. But just putting down lines and all in different directions. It was like it had so much variety and it was just one line I put down. You see over here? There's another area I just showing up in my area. Yeah, I can just let the lines go right through, but I decide, no, I'm not doing it. It actually has a fun effect, I think. Of course, I can keep on going the same direction like here. But like I said, it doesn't really matter. If they are not equally lined up, it could be for you. But then you're probably holding on too tight. I just want to let go and I'm just putting the lines where I want them to go. I'll take this one. You know what I think is mindful as well, not only do the repetitive actions because repetition is really nice for your head. It's also the sound define liner makes. I'm not sure if you hear it on camera as well. Then I have to find another form I want to make. You know what? I like circles. Why do I like circles? Be circles are ending objects. They keep on going and going. Continuous line. For me, they represent some kind of unity or how do you say it's some wholeness, harmony, and I need to be my life as well. He see, my circles aren't really precise. Sometimes the shape differs. Sometimes I don't really close the circles, sometimes I do. Sometimes I really in a pattern and sometimes they really are not. That's okay. I like the variety of shapes if I do like a square thing, I want to have a more round thing in my objects. But it doesn't really matter if you don't. Again, it's a process and it's your work and your work will definitely look different than mine because you kept your pen wandering in a different direction than I did. I think I'm going to one. I like to have the larger one. Why? It's so appealing to me, so. She loved this color. I didn't think I would, but I she loved this color. You see, I'm not really coloring it in the lines because it's hard with a crayon. You can, but you really don't have to. You see me thinking? No, I don't need to think. I just have to color the lines. It's actually darker purple than I thought it would be. I said I would just if I do something in this quadrant, I would do it here as well and here as well in here as well. But the thing is, there are a more little areas in this one than they are in this one, and a more here than they are over there. Now my mind is starting to think. I don't really want to think. But I can still keep up with the rules because that's why I made the rules, but I don't want to. I mean, Yes, maybe I want to for one area. But if I don't want to anymore, those are my rules. It's my canvas, so I can decide just to do differently. Now, I'm thinking I'm going to make a black one, fill in. Fill in this shape. You know what? I think this one needs two black ones. So this is what I'm going to do. And over here, I think I'm just going to. This one. I know it's finished? Well, when I think it's finished and if I don't, I can keep on going. But if I just change my rules like too many times, and you would keep on go over over processing and see what picture needs. This is not the point. The point is getting more relaxing your head, being mindful and not making piece of art. That's why I'm going to stop and that's why I'm not going to add any more details to this one. Maybe it will next time, I won't do it this time. So I'm not going to do the reveal and maybe the reveal is the most satisfying thing of all. I'm going to lay the tape flat when I pee it off. Otherwise, it would take away just too much paper and I don't want to take away too much paper. This one. No. This one is I never knew the order in which I put them on there. And if I do peel off some tap some paper, it's okay. They're not precious to me. Oh. You see them come alive because they do look different when the purple tape is gone and you just have the white edges, white borders. And the fun thing is, I mean, I said it's the process and I said it's not the end product, and it really isn't. But sometimes you see an object that you didn't like at first. Now when you're looking at, you're like, Oh. This looks really, really nice. Then you can keep it for yourself, especially when it's in your sketchbook. It's there for you, your eyes only. If you do it on a piece of paper like I did here. You can actually like cut them in pour, take the one you really like, and use it as a thank you card, for example, for a friend or framing up because this is my end result. 6. Technique #2 : See, now I prepared it differently. I made a different grit. As you can see there are already some stripes on my tape or I have some wrinkling tape. That's just because I sometimes just reuse my tape. Why wouldn't I? I could go through a bunch of tape a week, but I could also reuse it. It's more environmentally friendly. Since for me, why not? For this exercise, I taped it differently, but you could easily tape it the way you did before. It is just to show you that there are different options. Now I'm doing I'm grabbing my fine liner again. You know what? I'm not going to get my fine liner. I'm going to grab the thicker lines. Again, I'm going to swiggle and swirl in the way I want to swiggle and swirl. You can actually do this on the rhythm of your favorite song. You can do this on the rhythm of your breath. There's no particular way you have to go about it. There's no particular way in which direction you have to go over the page. And I think this is it. But the thing is, I'm going to do some neurographic art. The thing with neurographic art is that with each squared corner, you can actually make it a round corner. Round it off. The reason you do that, is because for some reason, it gives your mind peace. For some reason, it gives you hear me talking even slower now. It gives you a peace of mind by rounding of the corners. Since mindful art is giving your mind rest and some peace. This is a lovely way to go about it. You can leave it open here. But if you say, this is just to squared for me and I just want it to be cut off here and make it round, feel free to do so. Or you can leave it open and do nothing with these squares. You just go to every hooked corner, make a round doesn't mind if you go over the line she did before you, you can, but you don't have to. I'm going to close it up here. But I'm not going to do there. That's my decision. I think this was just too small an area. I'm actually fill it up with black. Because it's my canvas and I can do so if I want to. Don't think about it. I'm going to speed this up a bit for you. This is a lovely mindful thing to do, and I don't have much to say about it. But maybe it's really relaxing to watch. But I don't want to be a waste your time. I want you to waste your time on your own instead of mine. Now I want to use some water color just to fill up the spaces. I missed a few corners here. Actually it doesn't matter. You can always come back if you want to. More around a. I want to use watercolor to fill those spaces. You don't have to, I want to. But when you use watercolor, it's really important that the pen you used Is fit and water resistant. I don't even know if water resistant yet, that probably would work. I hope so. I know this one works because this is an archival inc. If you use like a brush print or something or a regular pen, you just go over it with water, I will just dilute everything, it would give a nice effect it's not about the art, it's about the process, so you would learn a lot about it. But if you actually want the materials to work together, I usually use some water resistance or archval ink so I can go over it with my watercolor. Some inks have to dry really long before you can go over it and some inks don't. But this one, I actually don't know. One way to go about it is just to try and figure it out. I'm not going to think too much about the color. I think I'm going to use some blue. Isn't that watercolor paper I use. So let's see what happens if I go over it. You know what? I'm going full over it. This is some more opaque watercolor. But you can use the watercolors you use with six to water. The water colors from like a paint set that you have from your kids. It's fine. You can use as I do now. You can actually use, you can use your felt pants. I actually want to use one color and you can decide that you want to use multiple colors and each area has its own color or maybe you want to fade all the colors. In it. It's up to you. See in some spaces it's already going to buckle the paper. That's just because I'm not using watercolor paper, and I just thought, Well, let's use watercolor because I want to s little water on there. At least I know my pen was archival. But I decided where I did the rounded colors, I would actually fill them in with the watercolor. I could do the whole piece, but I want to do it like this. It's more organic. I'm going to follow the lines and see where it takes me. Maybe I didn't over here, I didn't actually do a good job. Let's see what happens if I just remove the tape or shall I take this the smaller ones first. Actually watercolor, it's better just to wait and peel off when it's dry because then you won't rip the paper as much. But I was just impatient. Why? I don't know because this is actually a mindful exercise. You see, teachers with mindful exercises. They start mindfulness or mindful art for a reason because usually they are impatient, the easily stressed out, and they need an outlet and because they see it works, they want to share it with others. That's what happened with me. T off this tape. Actually, with this one, you didn't need to use the grid. You can use this on a plain piece of paper as well and you can hang it on your wall, but I wanted to use the grid because it's daunting. And you get surprises you didn't expect because it always looks different when you peel off the tape. In that way, you're not going to think too much about the end result. Be a lot of artists or aspiring artists are think of the end result. That was not the reason why we did this. We did this just to feel relaxed, enjoy the process, empty our minds, to get room for other thoughts again or room for creativity again. Peeling off the tape. Cleaning of the tape. You still wet, but you get totally different tes. Again, you can cut them up if you want to to make thank you cards out of them, or you can just leave it in your sketchbook as it is because this was just for a little. Take some time for yourself, some time to and relax before you go off with the rest of your day. F 7. Technique #3: Again, I prepped the canvas for you and I reused my tape, before we started off with some lines, so you have a beginning point where you know where to start because it feels good to have a point that you don't have to think about yourself, where to start. There's another option for that. What I sometimes do not use lines, but use paint and splatter. With this splitter, I decide where to start next. You see, I have larger dots, I have smaller dots. But before I proceed, I have to drive this. I'm going to have a hair dryer or blow dryer because it's easier for me to dry for now, I still have to start. I'm still impatient. I'm going to drive this for you before we start the rest of the exercise, but I will cut it out of the video because I don't want you to be bothered with the sound, since it's mindfulness and not getting I'll be back in the sick. Well, I'm back. Everything is dry, so I can start off doing the next step of this project. The only thing is. On this paper, it dries. On here, it dries too, but not as fast. I tried to wipe it off and, you see, I just wiped it into the paper. I can get really upset about it. But why? I just see it as a happy accident. It's a midfle exercise. It's not something to get upset about. Three different canvases that are still beautiful. Well, I made the St. Platters and I want to make something out of it. I want to make flowers out of it. Why? Because I love flowers? I'm just every time I see a dot, I'm going to put some petals on them. You see me go over other dots as well. That's fine. You can choose which ones you want to go over with, and which ones you maybe don't or maybe you can still go over them, but then you make the flowers. Some of them even go off the page. You know what? I'm not thinking about the petals. I'm not thinking about the size. I'm not thinking about the shape or if they stay in the paper or go off the paper. Im life, petals of a flower are organic as well and no flower is exactly the same as the previous flower. See me here overlapping. I can actually overlap as much as I want. But I can also decide in like, Let me see what happens if I just take a different color liner for the smaller ones, and actually make them look different and go over the other ones. You know, this wasn't a rule that I thought of before, but this is just me having some space in my head again for new creative ideas. Because I was doing this mindful exercise. Gave me some room to think of other ideas. Over here, they're overlapping quite a bit in other places they aren't. That's fine. Totally fine. T. Usually, I'm working all four canvases at the same time. But now just suddenly on middle, I decide, I need to do it differently. Now, because of this course, I just stopped and did the other thing. Well, that's how my brain works. I'm going to do the other ones and I'm going to speed it up again because I think you know the drill by now. Need to find out for yourself how you're going to manage how you're going to do it. Actually, the paint patter in just in case you want to know, you can do everything you want. I just did it with some acrylic ink. But you can use watercolor. You can even use acrylic paint and water it down. You can use liquid water color. You can use whatever you want. Long as it serves your you have your purpose. It's not only about what you want, it's also what you have available at home. Do you know that you can even do this with some coffee. If you just drink your cup of coffee in the morning, you're like, yes, it's leftover, I want to be creative with it. Scrap your brush and be creative. Actually have a course on skill share as well about making a mess with coffee and then doing some Zen art. Look at my profile and you'll find it. Look at that. We got a field full of flowers. Sometimes I just decided not to fill one up with a flower. Sometimes I say, I missed one and I still want to add one. It's fine. This one, I use multiple colors. That's fine as well. I I didn't have to think about where I should start, how my composition should look. I just had the blobs and I just had to fill the blobs with some flowery repetitive petals. Which give me ease and peace in my head. Well, we're going to go for the review. You know what? You don't always have to stay in these squares. Because you don't always have to make thank you cards of them. If you're like, No, I like it better when I just get that organic flow because well, these flowers have an organic flow. Feel free just to add something to them or maybe connect them to the other square square rectangle it is, but I don't know why I keep calling them squares. The other Canvas. That's I mean it's your project. The rules are not there to obey. The rules are there as a guide, you can use them in a way that suits you because they have a purpose just to give you the peace of mind and if it doesn't give you a peace of mind, we find a way, which it does. I think b flower of this one. You're done. You get your flower field. 8. Flipthrough: I'm going to give you a flip through through my journal that I did with just mindful grit art. Well, this is the date. You can see the different grits I made, the lessons I learned, the rules and how I bend the rules, and maybe they will help you too. Well, this is more or less like we did in the first exercise. Here I did it too with some larger tape. But then with the large tables like the squares of just too small, what if I just add some extra lie so you can see the squares. Sometimes I just make a mess and it doesn't really work out, or it worked out in my head, I gave me some space, but it didn't give me real art. With this, I said, play with the grid. You don't have the straightforward grid, you can mess around with the grid. And this I just made a big stain with watercolor and I just started following the edges, following the lines. I didn't have to think about it. Here, I just decided why not connect the squares. Why not use some collage paper in it? You see beautiful flowers before. When I did these flowers, I was like, what if I make it less abstract and make it well, not realistic, but more of a painting. This I just make two meadows, I think, just blue and green, and some depths of acrylic paint, and just with some smaller depths to make a center in it. All of a sudden, it feels like flowers and actually feels like four squares of flowers. Again, some mindful art because the stripes, the circles work really well, more of the 90s vibe. Why should I grid it all off and make it all squares if I can just put two lines here and just see what happens then. If you don't know what patterns to use, you can download pattern library. You can actually find the link to it in the resources. But over here, I was like, I got full head empty again. Well, that's the translation because it's Dutch, and I was like, the V I put over here. I put over here, the L, I put over here. Every next letter, I put in the next area until I was done. You can make the rules as, why does you want them to go? There's no specific way in which rules should just go, go with the flow, actually. Make it mindful. Yes, some of them are fun? Some of them are less fun and some of them have a purpose behind them and some of them don't. Actually, with these, these are done with acrylic paint, I started off with wandering with the pen. Then I started off like filling those areas like the yellow here, a little bit of blue here. But I decided not to clean my brush and then put some things over here, and I was like, Oh, it still needs something. What if I just do some extra dots here? What if I go back to brush to make a line and it started off with the grid, and it started off with those wikly lines. But it's just the starting point of starting my more abstract art that I can use on my larger canvases as well. It is mindful. You can actually see some of the lines go on here. It's mindful, but also gives me ideas for future projects. What is not the grid art, I actually made every grid. I made a different landscape. Yeah, it's grid art. If it's mindful, I don't know, just want to try something else. This is really easy. With this, it's easier than it looks, but you get overwhelmed like, they'll have to make something like this. This was the easiest one I ever made, but this one that I love. I think one of the most is my top ten. I definitely is. I just took like a brush pen and just went straight line down, straight line down, straight line down, straight line down. Because this mi grid was taped on there in a weird shape, it actually looks more difficult than it is. Again, it was not about being difficult. It's about emptying my head and over here I was just trying out some different patterns. You should definitely have your own pattern library. This was just one square. Again, I did some cars in there as well, this is more like we did with the first one. You see the difference that it makes here I did my breathing. I just went when I breathe out and go down breath in. V. Vin, I did the same way in this direction and sometimes they overlap, and then sometimes I just fill out those overlapping squares. Not all of them. No. Which one did I choose? Well, just the ones that came in my mind and just pick them up. Please don't overdo it. Just see where it takes you and sometimes you get more creative and sometimes you end up having a different result and sometimes it's just to put down the lines and just to give that order back in your head and your life in your way of thinking. This is actually a fun exercise. You know what? I'm going to show that one to you as well. I don't think there's much different anymore than I did for the rest. Yeah. I'm going to show you the taped one. 9. Technique #4: Well, I taped it up again and you see, I didn't do it really straight. If it bothers you, you can lift it up again and put it down again so make it more straight. But like I said before, I don't really mind. You see this is a straight. I don't really mind. Again, it's a process. With this one, I just showed you in the sketchbook. You get those piece of leftover tape. Never know when to use them, if you want to use them or not, and I just peel stuff off, and I'm just going to tape some of them down. Getting bothered, where I'm taping them. The only thing that I sometimes think about is that I like those rough edges instead of having all those straight edges. That's the only thing that I might think about when I'm putting in a piece of tape. Well, yeah, see how it turns out it gets sticky, clumsy, and you know what? I'm actually going to take this close to ner. Can do some here. It's just a bit too close to that one, but. It's okay. I just putting it one or two down. Maybe this is a really small one. I like it. Well, I'm going to leave it as it is. Now you can either take some paints or you can grab markers, whatever you have lying around, and you're going to fill up the space. No, I have marker from previous exercise, so I think I'm going to do the all green. You can actually choose to do them all in the same color because you wanted the grids to be more or less alike with the same rules. But you can also say, well, no. Now I have different rules. My rule now is just to have different colors. Maybe this is even gray. This isn't even a color. Again, it's about the process and the rules are there as a guide, and there are your rules. If your rule is like, I'm I want them all different, go for it. Do them all different. Some blue in there. I love this bright blue. You know what? I actually almost always use bright neon pink in my work, even with mindful art because I absolutely adore the color. But apparently, this is the first course or exercise or something that I'm not even using neon pink. Oh. That's something to get more mindful about why. What does it say about me, but then my mind will go on working. The reason why we're doing this is just because we don't want our minds work, we want our minds to get again. If you use paint, you just leave it to dry and if you just use a marker like I did, it's fairly easy. Quick. You just peel off the tape with these bits and pieces, I'm not going to bother to reuse it. I think. I'm just going to take them all in a bundle and throw them out. Actually, sometimes I give those piece of tape to my daughter because she knows the art project and she wants to do something with it. She actually likes this exercise too. Most of the mind for art exercises that I do, I do with her as well because they're not hard to do, and it gives her a piece of mind as well. And I have them all peeled off. And I'm going to grab my pen and I'm just filling up those wide spaces. And you can make very difficult patterns if you want to. I don't want to because it's the process not the end results, and I love the stripes. They bring me order in my mind. You see, they're not all even. Sometimes they don't even make it until the end. It's fine. And I did them with different colors. But this time, I'm not going to If them different patterns, I'm going to do the same pattern. But like I said before, you don't need to do the same pattern in the same direction. If I don't have it all taped down, if it's like on my sketchbook, I will turn my sketchbook to make the lines in a different direction. I usually do this in my sketchbook because I can take it with me. I can do this exercise where ever I want to do, if I'm waiting for the dentist, for example, or if you have a kid that has swimming lessons and you have to wait there for an hour before they're finished. Why not take a break there? Your life is busy as it is. So Why not give yourself a break every now and then. When you're busy, it's hard to plan those moments in and you're like, no, I'm not going to get creative. No, I'm not going to take a rest. No because I have to be busy. I mean, that's how we're programmed. But if you don't give yourself and your mind a break, you might get over the edge. I know what I'm talking about. I mean, I went over the edge multiple times. This helped me stay within the edge. But it also helps me because I'm chronically ill. To give myself my mind a rest. If you don't cannot fit it in in your busy life, then go and make it simple for yourself to fit it in because when you have to fit it in, it gets to be a big moment, a big thing, and then it's hard to start as well. If it's just something I do in between my busy activities, I get recharged for the next activity, and it's not such a big thing. I feel good about myself because I took a moment for me Just too brief. And now I'm doing the lines pretty quickly because for some reason, that's the pace that my hand and my mind wants to go. But you don't need to. You can take it slow as you want to and be really intentional with line you put down. There are different ways of being meditative and mindful about it, be intentional about it, or just put down repetitive stripes because you need the repetition because you need something if some emotion to get out. All of these approaches are fine. Just one that fits your needs at this moment. If it fits your needs, just to shut me up, put fue down, feel free to do so because I know me blabbing all the time is probably not as mindful. Als have various variations on this. You can fill them up with different patterns, but you can also do like. Well, what if for some reason, I want to put dots on some of the lines? Is that pending the rule? Yeah. Since it's your rule, it's okay. I use a black fine liner because for the contrast, it's easier for you to see and I know, for some reason, I love a black fine liner. But you have fine liners in every color. E a different color if you want to. Why I use a fine liner if you can a ball pen or you can a pencil. It's entirely up to you You can do this enlarge, if you have like one large piece. I just like working in smaller squares because they are not a daunting if smaller area you have to fill. But again, it's a mindful exercise. 10. Endless Possibilities: What's your break? How is your mind? Do you feel room again? Do you feel those juices flowing again? One thing I would recommend you is to start your own pattern library because that would be really helpful for your future artwork. To give you just an example what would look like. You just go to the project resources section. Because in resources section, you would find a document that has my pattern library in there and a section that you could fill out yourself so you could start your own library. Have fun making and please share because I would love to see you.