Jewel Tones lesson coming up

The last project pack released by Zentangle® headquarters (PP08) included some gorgeous pictures done with gel pens. I was enchanted by Maria's beautiful color palette of Day 5 and used that as inspiration. My first tests with those patterns using gel pens over black paper were less than satisfactory for me, I was a little frustrated with the lack of brilliance of the final pieces. Here are my experiments:

I still couldn't get over the beautiful jewel-toned palette, so I decided to try something different. I painted the background with watercolors, then tangled and colored in. I LOVE the results! Here is the before and after:

I loved this so much I am holding an online class this coming Friday, April 3, 2020 at 10am PDT for all participants of my Art Club. Jewel tones!!!! Here is a close-up for you to inspect closely:

As usual, all my online live classes are available for all Art Clubbers, and after each session they get recordings of the classes and bonus PDFs. Learn more here

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