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Fast Freehand Fills: Vol 1: Basic Fills
Do you love zen drawing but end up using the same 20 patterns again and again? The Fast Freehand Fills series can help. Always have a fresh fill on hand with this catalog of basic fills and patterns. The Fast Freehand Fills series provides zen expressionists with a repertoire of found and unique basic patterns that are easy to draw freehand. Wavy checkerboards, fishnets, pinstripe pajamas and dog bones are all waiting inside this catalog of fills. Great for zen drawing, mandalas and artistic journaling.
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80 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 16, 2013
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About the author
Dawn Summerall
8 booksDawn Summerall is the author/artist of the Zen drawing series Fast Freehand Fills. She currently lives in Fargo, ND but spent most of her life split between south Florida and Tennessee. She has two children and one grandchild. Dawn attended college for several years and majored in Fine Arts with a concentration in jewelry making. But while she had a passion for drawing and art history, she did not like the way the studio classes were taught nor did she agree with putting a grade on art. Dawn thinks art is about self-expression and not technical supremacy.
Dawn left college and began creating art independently for the past 20 years. She began publicly showing her work and pursuing art professionally after her marriage broke up in 2008. Dawn often displays her Zen drawings in gallery shows with the Fargo Moorhead Visual Artists group. She has also created up-cycled art for the Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity's silent charity auctions. Dawn is also a member of an international Art Charms group that creates wildly creative mixed media jewelry.
But above all else, Dawn loves to draw patterns and black lines. It is an obsession for her. Expressing her self though black line art is her greatest passion in a life of many passions. She began drawing in this style in the 1980's when she and her best friend Missy Allyn were in high school together. It started out as small doodles on notebooks and progressed to large scale tributes to whatever was important in life at the time: boyfriends, rock bands, tarot cards, etc. To Dawn, drawing is journaling and meditation through art. When she draws she is in a place of timeless awareness. Dawn feels the process of creating is more important than the finished piece.
Dawn left college and began creating art independently for the past 20 years. She began publicly showing her work and pursuing art professionally after her marriage broke up in 2008. Dawn often displays her Zen drawings in gallery shows with the Fargo Moorhead Visual Artists group. She has also created up-cycled art for the Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity's silent charity auctions. Dawn is also a member of an international Art Charms group that creates wildly creative mixed media jewelry.
But above all else, Dawn loves to draw patterns and black lines. It is an obsession for her. Expressing her self though black line art is her greatest passion in a life of many passions. She began drawing in this style in the 1980's when she and her best friend Missy Allyn were in high school together. It started out as small doodles on notebooks and progressed to large scale tributes to whatever was important in life at the time: boyfriends, rock bands, tarot cards, etc. To Dawn, drawing is journaling and meditation through art. When she draws she is in a place of timeless awareness. Dawn feels the process of creating is more important than the finished piece.
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June 22, 2019
Good Variety
This is a nice, quick, easy reference to keep on hand when I need to fill in a space in my drawing. The way it is arranged into categories makes it very quick and handy, indeed
This is a nice, quick, easy reference to keep on hand when I need to fill in a space in my drawing. The way it is arranged into categories makes it very quick and handy, indeed
June 15, 2019
Cool examples for my drawing
For new doodle drawing. Good examples and inspiration images. I want draw and lean other book this author. Thanks for bonus
For new doodle drawing. Good examples and inspiration images. I want draw and lean other book this author. Thanks for bonus
August 26, 2019
Beautiful, fast, fun
No filler or chatter, just lovely drawings. Lovely examples of finished projects are included for inspiration. Highly recommended. 5-star rating from me!
No filler or chatter, just lovely drawings. Lovely examples of finished projects are included for inspiration. Highly recommended. 5-star rating from me!
December 16, 2019
Adorei todos os exemplos e confesso que até pensei em tentar algo no Tablet. Muito bom!
February 9, 2021
Lots of patterns
This is just lots of doodle patterns. It was fun I don't have much to say about it. But I had fun drawing from it.
This is just lots of doodle patterns. It was fun I don't have much to say about it. But I had fun drawing from it.
March 7, 2021
Beginning zen
I found this book to be very enlightening and a new rave of Zen doodle fill ends I would prescribe this book to a beginner
I found this book to be very enlightening and a new rave of Zen doodle fill ends I would prescribe this book to a beginner
October 9, 2022
Beautiful patterns
This book contains beautiful instructions , but no instruction. As a beginner, directions on how to create the patterns would have been helpful.
This book contains beautiful instructions , but no instruction. As a beginner, directions on how to create the patterns would have been helpful.
September 8, 2023
I think I like this
This book shows you exactly what to do with the tiles you created 😄 I think that I will be trying my hand at this for a while.
This book shows you exactly what to do with the tiles you created 😄 I think that I will be trying my hand at this for a while.
March 27, 2015
Lots of designs to try
There are many different designs in this book for doing Zendoodle type drawings, however, the designs are not broken down to show how to make some of the more complex and completed doodles. If you have been doing Zentangle for some time, these fills will be easier to understand. There are many designs that will work for the novice. I purchased all three books and am satisfied with my purchases. The price is good and I now have a solid base of designs on my Kindle, so I am not always having to go online to Penterest to look up tangle patterns.
There are many different designs in this book for doing Zendoodle type drawings, however, the designs are not broken down to show how to make some of the more complex and completed doodles. If you have been doing Zentangle for some time, these fills will be easier to understand. There are many designs that will work for the novice. I purchased all three books and am satisfied with my purchases. The price is good and I now have a solid base of designs on my Kindle, so I am not always having to go online to Penterest to look up tangle patterns.
February 2, 2015
Excellent Presentation, Very Inspirational
If you need a boost to your creativity, then this is the book for you. Summerall shares lots of great ideas for many projects. I will be buying her next two books for sure.
If you need a boost to your creativity, then this is the book for you. Summerall shares lots of great ideas for many projects. I will be buying her next two books for sure.
October 10, 2016
Useful book
I am just learning about meditative drawing. I've been reading and looking at everything I can get my hands on about the subject while I wait for my tools. This book had lots of nice examples on the subject.
I am just learning about meditative drawing. I've been reading and looking at everything I can get my hands on about the subject while I wait for my tools. This book had lots of nice examples on the subject.
October 24, 2014
Simple and great for beginners.
This book allows a novice an easy way to delve into this new art form. Would highly recommend. Like the step by step examples.
This book allows a novice an easy way to delve into this new art form. Would highly recommend. Like the step by step examples.
September 26, 2015
Handy Ideas
This is great to have on my Kindle, It goes everywhere with me and when I am stuck for an idea I just quickly look at this little booklet.
This is great to have on my Kindle, It goes everywhere with me and when I am stuck for an idea I just quickly look at this little booklet.
October 10, 2016
Definitely worth the cheap price
Very little info but tons of examples. One problem with those examples though. They really should've done the first couple examples step by step.
Very little info but tons of examples. One problem with those examples though. They really should've done the first couple examples step by step.
January 14, 2017
Sorted by shape with a bonus section for stars that was actually quite helpful
April 1, 2015
Eh. It's ok. Nothing you can't find on the web with a 10 minute google search.
April 23, 2017
Don't waste ur data...
Most books on the art of zentangle, at least I have found, have either names of the individual tangles, or stepouts (step by step instructions on how to draw each tangle...
This book failed on both of those... wasted 10 min of my life I'm not getting back
Most books on the art of zentangle, at least I have found, have either names of the individual tangles, or stepouts (step by step instructions on how to draw each tangle...
This book failed on both of those... wasted 10 min of my life I'm not getting back
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