Do you Doodle?

    A doodle is a type of sketch, an unfocused drawing made while a person’s attention is otherwise occupied elsewhere. Doodles are thought to engage in idle activity, but are really drawings that often have concrete representational meaning. Everyone has probably doodled in notebooks, while daydreaming or  produced a collection of doodles during a long telephone conversation. It is said by some that doodling can aid a person's memory by expending just enough energy to keep one from daydreaming, which demands a lot of the brain's processing power. Thus, it acts as a mediator between the spectrum of thinking too much or thinking too little and helps focus on the current situation.
     I’ve been a doodler for as long as I can remember.  My mom doodled, and  I’m guessing my grandmother and great grandmother could have been a doodler.  I come from a long line of doodling. Recently I have expanded my doodling skills to make some worth while art work. These are an advance doodling technique, if you will indulge the definition, known as zentangles.

     Zentangle is an organized doodle used to create images by drawing structured patterns. They normally do not have a preconceived idea of your final result, although I have varied this process to allow for a finished piece to have a recognizable image. In spite of the fact that I may start out to draw a cat the finished creation is not restricted by any expectations.
     Zentangles are reported by many to  increase focus and creativity, provide artistic satisfaction along with an increased sense of personal well being.  I can't say that my drawings have given me personal well being, but I do delight in the activity. Doodles can certainly reveal something of a person’s mental state, would mine reveal something of my cerebral faculties? Maybe I just like cats, and colorful designs.