"Oh no, I scuffed my new white tennis shoes!"
"I can paint it for you."
"N-o-o-o-o-o!!!!"
They were terrified I meant it when I said I would paint leopard spots and paislies on our faded car. I painted quite a large design on our front door, a trompe l'oeil window on the living room wall, seasonal scenes on the 4 panels of a wood cabinet.... Some of my artistic exuberance included an old traditional Norwegian furniture painting style called Rosmaling (which means decorative flower painting), and other related forms, which I experimented with making into a style of my own. A few examples remain, and are pictured below. I called them my fantasmagorical-florical designs. (Can you tell I was a "flower child" of the 70's?)
When I recently spent hours and days doing Zentangle I noticed some similarities between the two, even though Rosemaling is brush-painted and Zentangle is pen-drawn. So I experimented with combining the shared elements of them both. I enjoyed the process and resulting designs. I hope you will try it. Maybe you'll like it, too. I would love to see what you come up with!
And please tell me what you think it should be called! Happy Zen-rose-fantasmagorical-florical-tangle-maling!!!
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| Zentangle officianatos will recognize many of the design elements seen here. |
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| This is probably my favorite so far. |
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| Over the top! - Maybe too much, eh? |
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| Oops, a little fuzzy, but you get the idea. |
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| THREE STARTED/ IN PROGRESS |
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| PLATE IS NOT MY WORK, BUT JUST ONE OF A ZILLION BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLES OF ORIGINAL ROSEMALING |
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