Back to Basics and 2021 Art Club Recap

Last Sunday Art Clubbers and I had a “Back to Basics” session. This was an interesting session because I also did a recap of my favorite classes taught during the year. You can see this in the video clip below:

A 2021 Recap of the lessons taught in Eni Oken's Art Club

After the short year recap, we tangled together on a Back to Basics class, using the classic Z-string and tangles Crescent Moon, Hollibaugh, Printemps and Bales (all tangles Zentangle). What I love about this combo is that no two tiles are the same! You can see two of my own side by side:

We started with the classic tangles, using Crescent Moon. During the entire session, I gave Clubbers simple prompts to stimulate their creativity. For example, we added Crescent Moon on two sides instead of one, and later creating oval auras instead of circular.

We also added Hollibaugh and Printemps in the same section instead of two, and worked Hollibaugh wrapped around the string.

After tangling, we worked the shading:

Here's my final tile. Love it!

Here is the sequence again in one single image:

Here’s another one I completed just recently, look how different it is!

And here is the before and after shading for this second one:

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