When I travel I often take pictures of tiled floors and wall mosaics.
Now I have the perfect use for them ….. I can draw them! They are pretty easy to copy and I feel very accomplished when I’m done. I’m still trying to draw other things as well but these will keep me from getting discouraged and the mosaics turn out way better than the apply or flower I tried to draw!
I’m finding drawing so relaxing and almost like meditating. It quiets my mind and I just focus on the task at hand. When I’m done I feel like I’ve accomplished something. I can see me keeping this up for awhile.
Some of the mosaics I’ve tried to duplicate, some with much more success than others:
This reminds me of mandala painting, colouring- a great meditation technique. No doubt the fact it is repeating pattern lets your mind stop trying to label it as something-which interferes whne trying to draw say a person. Keep it up!