The beautifully poetic class Duotone Tangling is now available in video format for individual purchase. This video class includes how to use a “landscape string” and how to create contrast using two inking pens of different colors. It also shows how to use grafting and how to organicize tangles to make them resemble plants.
Read MoreIn this picture I mixed a tangle with some history: the leafy tangle is Laquinta (my own) combined with a Romanesque fragment on the lower right corner. I used Laquinta sprouting from a wavy ogee curve, climbing like a vine and turning around the corner. Again, tangled with inktense and pitt artist brush pens.
Read MoreI continue my exploration of historic ornament and fragments, using this blue/green/ochre palette. This pattern - sometimes referred to as "Double Guilloche” - can be found in ancient Egypt, Assyria, Greece and ancient Rome. I also found a similar but not identical tangle called Tuly (Carmen Muniz Real). Tangled using Inktense paint pads and Pitt brush pens with a waterbrush.
Read MoreFinally managed to get something done in a different color palette! This is inspired by a photo I took of the Pantages theatre here in Los Angeles, I extracted a string with some large triangular points. Inside I added Crescent Moon, outside Moonpie on a path and some tiny Opus. Tangled using Inktense paint pads and Pitt brush pens with a waterbrush.
Read MoreStarting a new series of rectangular postcards in color. These seem similar to the Journal Tiles I’ve been making but they are actually made in a completely different way, tangling with inks using a waterbrush. This forces me to work extremely large, something quite unusual for me and yet here is still tons of room for tiny tangling and hatching.
Read MoreAnother Journal Tile with a combo between Uvula (Oswaldo Burbano) and Drawings (Zentangle). On the side you can also see Rixty and an Opus border. Pink pink everywhere, whew!
Read MoreOne of the last classes I taught at my club included how to create Tangle Combos, an incredibly fun process of combining tangle genetics to form new tangleations. In this Journal Tile I combined Zander and Prestwood (Margaret Bremner) as main artifact. I tried to use a slightly different color than sepia/brown, but it’s a tad too pink for my taste :-)
Read MoreLast Wednesday I attended a CZT After Hours conducted by Heidi Froelich where she explored Ratoon (Zentangle). Of course I had to create another brown/sepia Journal Tile. I also included tangles Florz, Braze, Garlic Cloves (Jacquelien Bredenord) and Chrissie, a rather new tangle by Martina Ramhapp.
Read MoreAnother Tangled Journal Tile. This includes an encapsulated MI2 (part of my class Small Treasures), also Oybay (Antonine Koval), and also Coiled Berry and Skorpio (both Eni Oken). MI2 is a tangle originally by Mimi Lempart. I’m enjoying so much collecting these “artifacts”, small piece of wonderful patterns, motifs and combos.
Read MoreI’m on a roll making these Tangled Journal Tiles. This one celebrates IDOZ, the new tangle released by Zentangle founders during the first International Day of Zentangle, released during an online live event to an audience of 2k tanglers! Such fun. You can also see there a Morph between Moon Pie and Jaysix. Every thing shaded with brown and sepia.
Read MoreThis lovely 2-part video class inspired by my hometown in Brazil - original design adapted from Debora August and taught with permission is now available at my video shop.
Read MoreIt’s been so long since I made one of these Tangled Journal Tiles! I used to make them all the time for my private journaling. This one has as focal point a series of heart knot fragments I learned from Sheila Sturrock’s book, and is shaded in sepia/brown inks. Tangles include Shiloh (Maureen Stott) and Trelina (my own).
Read MoreAnother mandala: I used some overlapping knotted ribbons according to the samples I played with before, and it was fun - took me two whole days to finish the 8x8 inch picture. This is probably the last one I’ll make for a while, I’m utterly mandala’d out :-) But I can’t promise.
Read MoreI started this mandala a few weeks ago, and it’s been taking a long time to finish only completed yesterday. Not entirely sure if I like it or not - definitely falls into the “weird” category. Tons of little tangles, some knots, and shading using brown and sepia inks.
Read MoreLately I've been exploring Celtic knots. I started these recipe cards testing the method similar to constructing the tangle Huggins, but I discovered another book and tried a different method which is more similar to my Freeform Knots class. I also tried some treatment options, mixing brown pen tangling with some color.
Read MoreToday I participated in another fun class with Angie Gittles celebrating the 4th of July US independence day. She used Phicops, Ixorus, Printemps and Pokeroot, and colored it with very beautiful red and blue markers. I went rogue and couldn’t resist going into sepia/brown again. Such a fun class, thank you Angie!
Read MoreToday I participated in a fun class conducted by Mary Rose Feldman, an amazing CZT and friend. She took us through a project using Onba, a rather challenging ogee grid tangle by Francoise Lip. I used the opportunity to use brown pen and india ink shading again. Love the result!!!
Read MoreDaily meditation on a small square tile. Now that I've worked on larger size mandalas, it’s so strange to work on the smaller paper, it’s over so quickly! This one was made using a Celtic-style flat knot as a string. Testing a little bit of color variation with my india ink pens. Other than fishskirt, not quite sure what to call these patterns.
Read MoreLooking back at some of my favorite things in my video classes. In this video class called Braided Divi, my favorite thing is how 3-D the tangle can be made by using edgework (and shading of course). The whole video class is about 40 minutes, comes with a video to ebook pdf and shows many other details like diva dance and wigwag. Get it at my shop enioken.teachable.com.
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