Overlapping Tangles Part 2

In the second part of the Overlapping Tangles series we drew this fabulous spiral wave string with squares and rice shapes. Trickier than it seems!

2021Eni OkenMarch 26, 2021overlap, layering

Squares on Wave

Another tile using overlapped squares over a wave string.

2021Eni OkenMarch 25, 2021overlap, layering, spiral

Square Confetti

Using overlapping tiny squares in a spiral string over Zentangle tile and watercolor pencil backgroun.

2021Eni OkenMarch 24, 2021overlap, layering, spiral

Overlapping Tangles Part 1

The first part of the Overlapping Tangles series, including some practical hands on collage and experimentation.

2021Eni OkenMarch 22, 2021overlap, layering

Gust Infographic

I created an “infographic page” for Gust tangle with everything I needed to know about this tangle.

2021Eni OkenMarch 20, 2021infographic, specimen page, anatomy page, gust

Scrabble anyone?

An easy and simple collection of fragments, ended up looking like Scrabble chips.

2021Eni OkenMarch 17, 2021blackandwhite, fragment, overlap

Single Pen Hatching Part 4

In the fourth and final part of the Single Pen Hatching class, we completed our tile adding Kensington (as a Blossom) and Hollibaugh.

Eni OkenMarch 13, 2021blackandwhite, hatching, cross hatching, contour hatching, Eni Dreams

Tangling inspired by Sogetsu Ikebana

One of my students challenged me to create a tangled piece inspired by Sogetsu, a modern type of Japanese Ikebana flower arrangement.

2021Eni OkenMarch 8, 2021blackandwhite, hatching, cross hatching, contour hatching, sogetsu, ikebana, zander, organicize, echoism, flux

Single Pen Hatching Part 3

In the third part of the Single Pen Hatching class, we started an actual tile. We used the Art Raffle and added Ennies and Toodles to our tile.

Eni OkenMarch 7, 2021blackandwhite, hatching, cross hatching, contour hatching

White Carving over Tan

Art History classes are influencing my work. This one was inspired by the plasterwork of the Alhambra in Spain.

2021Eni OkenMarch 3, 2021renaissance tile, tan tile, ataurique, whitecarving, carved

Single Pen Hatching Gust and Harp

Another single pen hatching piece using some of my favorite tangles of the new Art Raffle batch: Harp, Gust, Squill, Oof and Patakón.

2021Eni OkenMarch 2, 2021blackandwhite, hatching, cross hatching, contour hatching, gust, squill, harp, patakon, oof, scena, Eni Dreams

Single Pen Hatching Part 2

The second part of the Single Pen Hatching series included creating a small vignette packed with insights and precise exercises on how to use hatching as shading and texture.

Eni OkenMarch 1, 2021blackandwhite, hatching, cross hatching, contour hatching

Zentangle basics class in Portuguese

Every once in a while I love to go back and teach the basic Zentangle class in Portuguese to friends and family.

2021Eni OkenFebruary 25, 2021Zentangle method, Classic Zentangle, BW shading, Zentangle Basics

Updated Art Raffle with more Cards

A new update to Art Raffle includes 17 new cards. We are now up to 334 active cards.

2021Eni OkenFebruary 24, 2021artraffle, harp, alfie

Kangular

What a fabulous class with Tomàs Padros and Maria Tovar, exploring Tomàs’ new tangle Kangular.

2021Eni OkenFebruary 20, 2021kangular, renaissance tile, Renaissance, fragment

Single Pen Hatching Part 1 of a series

Today we started our Part 1 of the new Single Pen Hatching series, exploring different kinds of hatching and warming up.

Eni OkenFebruary 19, 2021blackandwhite, hatching, cross hatching, contour hatching

More single pen hatching

Got a lot of good feedback on the previous image with hatching, so made another using Umble, Shattuck, Umble and more.

Eni OkenFebruary 10, 2021blackandwhite, hollibaugh, hatching, cross hatching, contour hatching, Eni Dreams

Single pen hatching Yincut, Ixorus and Ennies

Going back to my roots, hatching in black and white. A single pen picture (no pencil shading, all hatching!).

Eni OkenFebruary 8, 2021blackandwhite, artraffle, Classic Zentangle, Yincut, ennies, snail, ixorus, hollibaugh, Eni Dreams

Green Valentangle

Playing with day 6 of Marguerite Samama's Valentangle 2021 using colored pencils over a relaxagon.

2021Eni OkenFebruary 8, 2021palazzo, Zendala, Renaissance, valentangle

Palazzo Flower Zendala

An instructional flower-structure Zendala using the patterns extracted from the Palazzo lesson.

2021Eni OkenFebruary 1, 2021virtual tour, art club virtual tour, palazzo, florence, Zendala, renaissance tile, Renaissance

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