Today Art Clubbers worked on Part 2 of a class called Skyline on Phi. This is based on the design of my friend Debora Augusto who kindly granted me permission to teach it. We completed most of the line-art on Part 1 and shading in Part 2. The blog also shows the video of my latest pop-up card I made based on the same concept.
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 MoreDuring my recent vacation I gave members of my Art Club some homework, the Verve Timeline recording. This is the same class I taught in 2023 at Angie Gittles Fall Tangles. Now returning from my trip we worked on a follow-up class exploring a Verve Monotangle with all the enhancers explored before. I love how each one turns out so different than the other!
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 MoreYesterday we had another Tangle Combos session here at Art Club. This is an ongoing series started last year which covers tangos, hybrids and “tangle genetics”. In this session we combined Naaki (Nadine Roller) and Drawings (Zentangle) into some really interesting shapes. #tanglecombos #eniokenartclub
Read MoreDrawing with friends this week. The Art Raffle gave me a loop string, Harp (Jan Brandt), Pufcookie, Pokeroot Mashup and Tassels (all three my own tangleations). I was reminded how much I love Pufcookie, an oldie but good one.
Read MoreLast week the lovely Jane Osborne conducted us through a session at CZT After Hours creating a star string. After I filled it up with tangles - Hamsix (Alena Light), Betweed, Fluxecho (Lynn Mead) and others, I decided to shade this with ballpoint pen again - not my brightest decision. I think I might have overdone it this time…
Read MoreA few weeks ago Art Clubbers and I worked on a “Tangle Combo” (a new series of lessons) between Verve (JJ LaBarbera) and Paradox (Zentangle) and I was playing with a duotone version. I enjoyed it so much I created this other picture that reminds me of a landscape with trees in front. This project definitely coming to Art Club very soon.
Read MoreYesterday Art Clubbers and I worked on Part 1 of this beautiful ZIA project: the Palmette Zendala. Tangles include Icanthis, Mooka, Wyforwings (tangleation of Wyfore) and Fluxecho (Lynn Mead). In Part 2 we’ll cover the shading!
Read MoreThis mandala took me a LOOOONG time. I was determined to NOT use a pencil for shading, only ink. After testing the ballpoint shading technique over another tile, I set out to shade this monster. It took me 4 days but was worth it, the depth achieved by the ballpoint is remarkable.
Read MoreNursing the flu with a sore throat had me drawing quietly this week, no classes. The Art Raffle gave me an orb string and Mrth (Zentangle) and some other tangles. My hand had other plans and just went Crescent Moon on me, and suddenly it just wanted to tangle Aquafleur. I like it!
Read MoreNow that the Zentangle MatchMaking series is over in the Art Club, we started a new series, focusing on Tangle Combos. This is the second session of the series, and since it's the beginning of the year, nothing more appropriate than using the classic 4 tangles used for a Back to Basics: Crescent Moon, Holibaugh, Printemps and Bales.
Read MoreI’ve had this idea for a long time: to use a Tarot card as a string. This one is based on card XVIII La Lune (the Moon) from the Tarot of Marseilles. It was a bit of a challenge to try to replace the symbols of the Tarot card with non-representational tangles, I must try this again.
Read MoreThis is the first picture of the year - technically it was started in 2023, derived from the Zentangle MatchMaking series. In this one I used Meer, Fife, Mooka3D and a horizon enhancer that made this look more like some kind of landscape. Love when that happens!
Read MoreThe end of the year is here, and with it, the end of the Zentangle MatchMaking series. Yesterday Art Clubbers and I had the last session of this fantastic series. I did a brief recap on everything we learned and then we applied what we learned using Ancient Egypt (and other things) as inspiration.
Read MoreYesterday Art Clubbers started a brand new ongoing series called Tangle Combos. This series aims to explore how to manipulate tangle combinations including tangos, blends, grafts and more. All Clubbers get the entire series - it’s ongoing - even those who sign up now.
Read MoreSometimes inspiration comes from the most unusual places. Looking at a bunch of vegetables and fruit, I found myself extracting shapes and forms. This is a larger piece for me, it measures 5-1/2x5-1/2 inches (approximately 13x13cm), and that really makes a difference, it took a lot longer to complete.
Read MoreYesterday Art Clubbers and I finished the project called Star with Gold, and we developed two different types of stars inside the elaborate frames: one with Starukas (Zen-Linea) and one with Bejeweled Hurry.
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