In this mindful Easter egg pattern exercise, we will decorate some eggs with relaxing patterns.
As a child, I would always love to paint Easter eggs. It was a really relaxing activity. You just concentrate on your egg and paint.
Now we’re gonna make it even more relaxing by adding mindful patterns to our eggs. You can do this exercise on paper like I did, or you can grab some boiled eggs and draw on those.
As always, this exercise is about having fun, getting into a flow, and forgetting about the rest for a while. Just concentrate on your patterns and enjoy all the meditative motions of these patterns.
Please let me know if this mindful Easter egg pattern exercise helped you relax, I’d love to know.
If you have any questions about this exercise, please leave a comment below and I’ll help you.
You can find a small video of this exercise on my Instagram @thecreativecooldown
Supplies used:
Bristol paper (Handletteringdoenwezo), alcohol markers (ohuhu), fineliner no. 0.3, 1.0 (Copic), , fineliner no. 0.05 (Winsor & Newton).
Alternative supply suggestions:
You can use a regular pen or a pencil to draw the lines for this exercise. If you want to add color, use whatever you have, such as crayons, markers, and watercolor. Even if you only have a pencil, just try it. You can simulate different colors by using different shades of grey.
If you don’t have fineliners with different-sized tips, you can also use a blunt pencil for thick lines and a sharp one for thinner lines.
Instructions
1. Before you start, slowly breathe in and out a few times to get more relaxed. Grab a large-tipped pen and draw some egg-like shapes. They don’t have to be perfect. No egg is alike anyway.
2. Start drawing freeform lines in your first egg. Try not to think and let your hand guide you. Just see what comes out.
3. Your freeform lines from step 2 have divided your egg into different sections. Choose a color or colors that calm you or speak to you and color all the sections you’ve created.
4. Now it’s time for our second egg. Grab a different color and color your egg. I used two different colors and made a stripe pattern with my colors, but you can color your egg any way you like.
5. Grab a smaller-tipped pen and start drawing horizontal lines. Go slow. Make sure the line you are drawing is parallel to the one you drew before. Your lines will probably be wobbly or crooked, but that doesn’t matter. That will add movement to your drawing and makes it interesting.
6. Lastly, we will fill our third egg. Start by drawing a few circles or ovals in your egg.
7. Color the circles you drew in step 6 and add color to the rest of your egg.
8. Fill your whole egg with small circles that are close together, except for the circles you drew earlier. Go slow and enjoy the repetitive motion of drawing these circles.
Now you have finished the mindful Easter egg pattern exercise. Well done!
If you liked this exercise, you might like my Mindful circle lineart exercise as well.