Palazzo Tangles

I love traveling. One of the things I enjoy the most about traveling is drawing on site, extracting details from historic urban detail. Since we are all in lockdown due to pandemic, I have spent quite a lot of time in virtual travels using Google Earth. Such fun!

Last year I also ran two virtual art tours my students, visiting Malaga for my Sketching Urban Detail class and Siena for my Romanancy class.

In my next class for members of Art Club, I plan to once again use inspiration in historic buildings, extracting tangles from the Medieval/Renaissance Palazzo Davanzati in Florence.

We'll start by exploring the patterns found in that beautiful medieval/renaissance palace - more of a collection of houses unified under one facade to form a Renaissance palace.

Once we extract the patterns, we'll then explore how to create a Zendala over tan paper using a variety of supplies such as colored pencils, brown and black ink and gel pen. To create overlapping designs, we'll also use Zentangle's Markus Operandus Zentangle template.

Following the new format for my classes, this will be a multi-part series with several classes, learning how to find repetitive patterns, simplifying and stylizing, preparing and using the Zendala template, using overlap and various media to form a rich, intricate and unique design that will do so much more to remind you of a special place than just photos or videos.

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