I'm playing with several things lately: learning how to make popup cards, how to paint and shade using ink and watercolors, and how to use my new inkjet printer. Here I duplicated a balloon shape originally drawn with brown pen and inks, then printed out several pieces to collage on a V-fold pop-up card. The result is an explosion!!!
Read MoreI participated in the 2024 Zentangle BeWell event. Instead of using triangular tiles, I created a white base pop-up card using almost exclusively triangular V-folds and added each tangle of the event every day. The main challenge of this project was to make something that would flatten out completely so that I can draw over it after the pop-up is constructed. Here’s the final piece!
Read MoreThe beautiful Bailarine Popup Class is now available for individual purchase at my Teachable Video Shop. This is a 3 part series - 3 videos totaling 4:20 hours - showing how to understand and build a fantasy world pop-up card from scratch, using Zentangle Inspired elements. https://enioken.teachable.com
Read MoreI'm participating in the Zentangle BeWell2024 event. Instead of using triangular tiles, I created these white base pop-up cards using almost exclusively triangular V-folds, one tangle a day on each v-fold. I made two cards. The main challenge of this project was to make something that would flatten out completely so that I can draw over it after the pop-up is constructed. The videos of the cards can be seen on my blog.
Read MoreOne more Flower Pop-up card. I guess it was the recent Mother's day that prompted me to create so many flower cards. I'm not quite done with them yet. I created a mockup of the card first to see if the mechanism would work the way I wanted. The decoration is a mix of Mooka, Diva Dance and Tipple.
Read MoreAnother super weird pop-up! Here I used a twisting mechanism, which rotates 90 degrees as the card opens and closes. On top of that I added a number of add-ons and the result is pretty crazy! Tangles are Twing, Crescent Moon, Printemps (all Zentangle) and also Fescurus Verae (Veronica Vazquez Orozco) and some other things that don't have names.
Read MoreI’ve been away on a family reunion, during which I barely had any time to draw. Here is one piece, though, that I managed to make during this time. The challenge was to create an asymmetric pop-up composition using mostly V-folds. Not sure it’s my favorite composition for pop-ups, but it was fun to see how it came along in a very unusual way.
Read MoreA SECOND little sampler booklet of popup mechanisms, this time exploring Angle folds (V-folds). I especially like the double V-folds that point at each other and make the extensions (arms) rotate wildly.
Read MoreYesterday Art Clubbers and I completed Part 3 of the Bailarine Pop-up card. This is the last project of the club! It was a three part series that will be available at my video shop as a video recorded class in a month or two. Tangles were Toodles, Tink, Msst and Bailarine. Such fun!!!
Read MoreAnother pop-up card, this time using an “M-fold” with some attached muscled and little added feature extensions. Tangles are Toodles, Mooka, Fescu (all Zentangle) and also Garlic Cloves/Ravel (Jacquelien Bredenoord). Love this one!
Read MoreContinuing my latest obsession with pop-ups, watching a ton of videos on different mechanisms, my goal is to understand the differences well enough so that I can create pieces intuitively using Zentangle patterns. Many thanks to fantastic paper engineers that post instructional videos online such as Duncan Birmingham and Matthew Reinhart.
Read MoreLast two Thursdays Art Clubbers and I are playing with the LAST class of the Art Club: a 3 part series on how to create tangled pop-up cards. In Part 1 we created a large V-fold panel; in Part 2 we worked on attached features and parallel folds. In Part 3 we’ll put it all together!
Read MoreContinuing my new obsession with pop-ups and paper mechanics. While practicing some tangles I created this tiny 3x3 inches (8x8cm) handmade paper pop-up card using Zentangle tangles such as Cadent, Nik (Bunny Wright) and Mooka.
Read MoreYesterday I had a wonderful class with the Clubbers called Duotone Tangling, where we created art using two different pens, black and another color. We included grafting, foreshortening, organicize and some other fun enhancers. Tangles were: Dillo-tant (L. Goldman), Tipple, Bales, and an organicized version of Moonpie. In this post you can also see the pop-up card I made with similar language and visuals.
Read MoreHere is another pop-up I created before leaving on my recent vacation. This one uses a combination of Naaki (Nadine Roller) and Drawings. This is a combination that my students and I explored in Tangle Combos - and also a bit of Moonpie (Zentangle). Looks like a fish tail of sorts.
Read MoreI have been away for family events, but before leaving I made a couple of pop-ups - trying to learn more about this super fun artform. Here I used Bailarine, Tink and Toodles. Go to the actual blog page to see the video and also a study mockup. I'll be posting the second one soon.
Read MoreI taught my private group how to make the Popup Heart card, a lesson which is also now available in video format to the general public. This one in pink and red turned out so sugary!!!
Read MoreToday Art Clubbers and I had a great class on zoom on how to create this super cute popup heart, which is also my prompt for Valentangle 2022. #artclubpopupheart
Read MoreThis year I’m participating in a lot more events as a contributor. Here’s my contribution to Marguerite Samama's Valentangles 2022, which starts in just about a week. It’s a popup heart!
Read MoreLast Sunday Art Clubbers and I had a fantastic and super intense class on how to create gorgeous 3-dimensional popup flower cards. We painted the paper, cut out flowers and assembled them. The cards can be folded and sent in an envelope!
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