Palazzo Tangles Lesson Part 1

Last Friday Art Clubbers and I created a sampler from the beautiful Palazzo Davanzati.

2021Eni OkenJanuary 31, 2021virtual tour, art club virtual tour, palazzo, florence, Zendala

Palazzo Tangles 2nd Zendala

Here's a second Zendala inspired by an intricate italian Palazzo in Florence, theme of an upcoming class.

2021Eni OkenJanuary 26, 2021virtual tour, art club virtual tour, palazzo, florence, Zendala

Rainbow Shading Lesson Part 5

The Rainbow Shading course live is officially over, with 5 parts. Members of my Art club can get this as a video recording with over 6 hours of video.

2021Eni OkenJanuary 23, 2021rainbow coloring, colored pencils, bunzo, jaysix, tink, joki, kwazeela, rainbow shading

Palazzo Tangles

In the next multi-part series coming up for Art Club, we'll learn how to extract tangles from an intricate italian Palazzo and also how to use the Markus Operandus template to create Zendalas.

2021Eni OkenJanuary 19, 2021virtual tour, art club virtual tour, palazzo, florence

Rainbow Shading Lesson Part 4

Rainbow Shading is almost over. Last Friday Art Clubbers and I started the last project of the series, to be finished this week.

2021Eni OkenJanuary 18, 2021rainbow coloring, colored pencils, bunzo, jaysix, tink, joki, kwazeela

Rainbow Shading Sampler

A sampler with lots of tanglers for what is, tentatively, the last part of the Rainbow Shading series.

2021Eni OkenJanuary 12, 2021rainbow coloring, colored pencils

Looped Wigwag in Rainbow Shading

Looped Wigwag on Zentangle tile with Rainbow Shading. A little grainy, but I love it!

2021Eni OkenJanuary 11, 2021rainbow coloring, colored pencils, wigwag, shattuck, jetties, Eni Dreams

Rainbow Shading Part 3 Lesson

Last week Art Clubbers and I continued to explore Rainbow Shading on our first complete project.

2021Eni OkenJanuary 10, 2021rainbow coloring, coloring, colored pencils

Pokeleaf Rainbow Shading

Continuing to explore Pokeleaf, Fife and more with colored pencils and the “Rainbow Shading” technique.

2021Eni OkenJanuary 6, 2021rainbow coloring, coloring, colored pencils

Rainbow Shading Part 2 Lesson

Art Clubbers and I had the second part of the multi-part series covering all the secrets of how to understand and apply colorful shading to Zentangle work.

2021Eni OkenJanuary 4, 2021rainbow coloring, coloring, colored pencils

Nik, Joki and Twing

Spent the morning with college friends playing with classic Zentangle and the Art Raffle. So much fun!

2020Eni OkenDecember 30, 2020nik, joki, twing, blackandwhite, artraffle, Classic Zentangle

Rainbow Shading Part 1 Lesson

The first part of a multi-part series covering all the secrets of how to understand and apply colorful shading to Zentangle work.

2020Eni OkenDecember 23, 2020rainbow coloring, coloring, colored pencils

Bunny Wright's tangles in the Art Raffle app

A new update to Art Raffle honoring the memory of Bunny Wright who left us too soon, celebrating her wonderful tangles.

2020Eni OkenDecember 13, 2020nik, heartrope, bunny wright, artraffle, fragment

Faux Viking Knots Lesson

This week we had a spectacularly fun lesson on how to create Viking-looking knots using tangles Yah and Jaysix.

2020Eni OkenDecember 11, 2020freeform knots, knotted, knots, viking knots, celtic knot

Art Club End-of-Year Mosaic

As the year comes to an end, it’s important to evaluate what you learned. Let’s create an end-of-year inchie mosaic!

2020Eni OkenDecember 7, 2020viking knots, coloring, rainbow coloring, tinted, arukas, Joki, rixty3D

Rainbow Shading

As we approach the end of a year of extremes, a strange type of diffuse coloring style emerges in this picture.

2020Eni OkenDecember 4, 2020viking knots, coloring, rainbow coloring, tinted, arukas, Joki, rixty3D

Faux Viking Knots and Nik

Having so much fun preparing for my class on Faux Viking knots. This one mixed with Nik, Mooka and Cadent.

2020Eni OkenDecember 3, 2020freeform knots, knotted, knots, viking knots, celtic knot, nik, mooka, cadent

String Theory & Composition Lesson

Art Clubbers and I had a super interesting hands-on class on how to start thinking of string theory and composition in Zentangle.

2020Eni OkenNovember 27, 2020stringtheory, composition, layout

Shading with Black Pencils - no smudge!

In my search for the perfect smudge-free black pencil for heavy shading, I tested a few different options of colored pencils.

2020Eni OkenNovember 22, 2020black pencil, shading, pencils, colored pencil

Norway inspired and Viking knots

I’m still fascinated by Faux Viking knots. I found inspiration on Norwegian architecture to produce this very straight and angular piece.

2019Eni OkenNovember 22, 2020freeform knots, knotted, knots, viking knots, celtic knot

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