Coloring Book for
Corona Virus Safe Stay at Home Fun!
If you are a kid, and you can’t ride your horse, here’s a chance to color her or him.
If you are an adult, here are some zendoodles! What are Zendoodles?
Click on a picture, and I will create a new page with the pencil drawing that you can print and color or doodle.
When you see the black and white pencil drawing, you can right click and print it!
This is a Corona “Quick & Dirty” – something to give the kids (and Dan) something to do. If it looks kinda rough, well, it’s not intended to be great art, but maybe give us a few fun hours!
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Zendoodles!
An Adult Coloring Book for
Corona Virus Safe Stay at Home Fun!
Zendoodling is the art of drawing designs using structured patterns.
When you fill in or draw in a Zendoodle, you’re creating a work of art, but you’re also deliberately creating a mood, focus, and state of mind. The idea is to simply relax a little.
You don’t have to be Michaelangelo to create a great Zendoodle. Because they’re based around following a series of steps focused on a set of patterns, it’s easy for beginners to get started.
- Print a design on your printer.
- Maybe turn on some relaxing music (Mozart, Pink Floyd, Janice Joplin, Beegees, whatever!).
- Find a pencil, colored pencil, pen (any color) or whatever. Any writing utencsil with a fine point.
- Pick a spot on the drawing, and start filling in an open area. Solid, shading, crosshatches, paisley, other little doodle shapes, or leave open. Whatever. It doesn’t matter.
- Find another open area and repeat.
You are NOT wasting your time, you are helping your mind relax.
Zendoodles aren’t doodles in the same sense as the star or squiggly stick man you drew while you were on the phone; they’re intricate designs built up by completing small areas of patterns at a time.
Once you get the hang of it and have a few basic Zendoodles under your belt, let your mind wander and be as creative as possible! Invent your own patterns and see what your imagination comes up with.
Try not to have a preconceived idea of what it should look like; let your imagination move your hand, settle into a meditative state of mind, and you’ll be surprised with what you can do when you’re not focusing on the big picture.
If you find this worthwhile, Google Pentangles and Zentangles for the next level, where you doodle in the design.
“For a while now, like a few years, I had this habit of doodling and filling strings of lines with patterns and just “going with the flow.” A few months back I realized that what I was doing was actually a form of art!
(Genuine testamony of a person I just made up; whose life changed from dull, drab, lifeless, anxious, psycho-homicidal, to singing “The Hills Are Alive” while skipping barefoot through the Alps with hair that is bright, bouncy, and full of body and highlights.)