Gourdgeous and friends

This week Art Clubbers and I are going to explore how to tangle and shade over black tiles, and I’m playing with some interesting options for the class. In this one, I used the tangles Gourdgeous, Printemps and Courant and Munchin (all by Zentangle). And I also added some ribbons for good measure, because I’m completely in love with these random ribbons.

Here you can see a before and after:

Tangling and shading over black paper is not easy, it requires the artist to really think of the light and how it will hit the paper in a completely different way than shading over white. Here is a close-up for you to inspect:

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