I'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 MoreTwo projects made during CZT After Hours sessions: one mandala with Suchitra and another a square tile with Diane Harpster. I'm loving these sessions: each week a different participant conducts a short 1 hours session.
Read MoreA few weeks ago some friends pulled out an Art Raffle and I used some of the tangles in that raffle as inspiration to create a “bud” exercise. I used Twing (Zentangle), Jaysix (my own), Fescurus Verae (Veronica Vazquez Orozco) combined into a bud. I'm pretty pleased with it. Shading was done partially with watercolors and partially using Procreate.
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 MoreToday I participated in a lovely session at CZT After Hours where Marina Solar conducted us creating this four point star. She did it in color over black, but I just had to do it in black pen over white paper. What a fun and enjoyable session, thank you Marina!
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 MoreToday 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.
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