Wow, Drawings!

Exploring the lovely tangle "Drawings" by Zentangle, Inc.

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenDecember 30, 2016flukes, drawings, baton, crescent moon, florz, shading, Zentangle

Improve in 2017

Improving in 2017 is always a good idea! Adjust the course!

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenDecember 27, 2016ibex, tanglingwithgold, marasu, Zentangle

Gilded Mambo

Mambo is one of those lovely tangles with lots of Echo Lines!

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenDecember 27, 2016tanglingwithgold, mambo, Zentangle, Echo Lines

Queen's Quilt again

Just loving Tangling with Gold with the techniques from my newest ebook.

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenDecember 27, 2016tanglingwithgold, ibex, Zentangle

Gold Stella

Alien being, angel, underwater creature, who knows what this one is, and why it appeared on my tile!

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenDecember 22, 2016tanglingwithgold, gold, gilded, stella, Zentangle, shading

Queen's Quilt - Tangling with Gold

Here is another picture from the new ebook Tangling with Gold. This is a technique I call "The Queen's Quilt", because it's so luxuriously busy and looks like a regal quilt.

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenDecember 21, 2016tanglingwithgold, queensquilt, gold, gilded, Zentangle

Gilded Mini-Mosaic

This is one of the first projects from my new ebook Tangling with Gold, teaching how to use metallic pens and metallic watercolors.

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenDecember 20, 2016gilded, gold, mosaic, tanglingwithgold, Zentangle

Announcing new ebook Tangling with Gold

Embellishing art with gold just has to be right up there with chocolate, on the scale of important things in life. Today I'm releasing a gorgeous new ebook on tangling with gold.

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenDecember 19, 2016gold, gilded, tanglingwithgold, Zentangle, metallics

Tangling with Echo Lines

You probably already heard me (virtually) talking about ECHO LINES. These are similar to auras, but not quite. Echo Lines go around a shape only partially, reducing or enlarging while forming a sort of 3-dimensional model.

2016, Zentangle®Eni OkenDecember 5, 2016zentangle, Echo Lines

Late Sindoo

Last week our focus tangle for the Shading Zentangle® Facebook group was Sindoo, a tangle deconstructed by Sharon Robinson here. Although I'm not really much into grid patterns, I really liked this one, and combined it with ANOTHER one of my favorite grid patterns, Hypnotic.

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenDecember 3, 2016sindoo, hypnotic, Zentangle, shading

Zello and Fengle Revival

I've had this tile sitting around, incomplete, for what seems to be a year. Now I finally finished it!

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenDecember 1, 2016zello, fengle, Zentangle, shading

Tangling with Jewels

Zen Gems are awesome, but I do love the REAL sparklies. I have a wonderful friend who works at John F. Allen, a wholesale supplier of Preciosa and Swarovski rhinestones.

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenNovember 28, 2016rhinestone, sparklies, glow on the dark, gemstones, brooch

Koi Water Brushes test drive

Ever since I knew that Zentangle.com was selling gray Koi Brush Markers to CZTs as an alternative to the gray Fabrico Markers, I knew I had to try that brand. They wouldn't have started carrying it if they weren't worth it!

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenNovember 28, 2016koi markers, gray markers, nipa, flukes, quintau, windfarm, shading, Zentangle

Prasima and Vega

At home, I managed to create a quick tile in between the hustle and bustle, using my new tangle Prasima.

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenNovember 23, 2016prasima, vega, drupe, hypnotic

Prasima tangle

Here's a new tangle I've been playing with for a little while in private for the last month in my sketchbook, and which made an appearance early October here while I was exploring contour hatching with Joki and Narwal.

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenNovember 22, 2016prasima, tangle, stepout, mytangles

Waybop

Waybop is the name of one of the newest tangles released last week by Zentangle, Inc, during ZenAgain. Although I was not able to attend the seminar, I did get the step-out via Zentangle's special newsletter for CZTs.

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenNovember 21, 2016waybop, echoism, dansk, caviar, zinger, shading, renaissance, Zentangle

Golden family

My lovely family is visiting from Brazil, so I have not had time to create much art -- too much going on!

I've been so surrounded with so much love and fun, I wrote a quick little reminder to of how important it is to always focus and pay attention to those who are willingly showering us with love. They deserve it!

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenNovember 21, 2016gold, shading, Zentangle, gold watercolor

Live Online Zentangle® Class

This week I had a really fun and exciting time, despite of all the turmoil going on in the U.S. I held my first LIVE online Zentangle class! It was sort of a test-drive to see how interactive online teaching can be.

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenNovember 11, 2016live workshop, vega, garlic cloves, hollibaugh, Zentangle, shading

Fassett!

The focus tangle of Shading Zentangle® FB group's weekly challenge is Fassett, a fun (but a little tricky) tangle to play with. Mine is almost duotangle with my new favorite Baton.

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenNovember 7, 2016fassett, baton, shading, Zentangle

Footlites Monotangle

Footlites (deconstructed by Carole Ohl) is the focus tangle of Tasmin Rootman's Monotangle Adventures Facebook group this week. I just love that tangle and thought I'd give it a try.

2016, 3D Tangle Shading, Zentangle®Eni OkenNovember 4, 2016footlites, monotangle, shading, Zentangle

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