It turns out doodling is not easy for everyone.Being able to doodle random patterns and then expound upon them is a lesson in freeing your mind. If you are a perfectionist doodling is counter intuitive. Yet, the randomness of doodling may help with memory as one study in the UK suggests (http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/Take-Note-3A-Doodling-Can-Help-Memory--38053-1/).
Not all of us have been allowed to doodle while in school or church or while hanging out with boring adults-- so we spend our time trying to be quiet, holding still, and generally being miserable.
Yet, we should all have permission to doodle. Even Bill Gates of Microsoft has been known to doodle. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4220473.stm)
This week in batik class we learned how to make the color wheel by mixing dyes. As you can see we did not have a true blue so we could not make a true violet. Nevertheless, making a color wheel with dye is a bit of a guessing game - counting out the drops of yellow and adding one drop of blue to make green.
We certainly enjoyed the lesson and the review of the color wheel.
With out new knowledge about making so many new colors we will move on to advanced doodling in class next week.I am looking forward to expanding my experience with wax resist. When the next 4 week session begins in two weeks we will try our hand at working on silk instead of cotton. We anticipate the colors being more vibrant after rinsing.
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