In this picture I combined two medieval foliage artifacts found in a public domain book by James Colling. They are described as “triple buds” in the book. I also love the presence of Mooka tendrils sprouting from the branch. Shaded and colored with Inktense and Pitt Artist Brush pens.
Read MoreArt Raffle app updated with 25 more cards! The total cards is now 645. I have a lot of tangles to add - if you have given your permission already, please have patience and I’ll get to them! In this release I included many tangles by Hanny Nura, also Vicki Bassett, Oswaldo Burbano Sandoval, Tina Hunziker, Gwen Mertens, Ruth Gutberlet, Liz Drake and Yvonne Westover. Many thanks to all!!!
Read MoreLast April I had a family reunion in Lisbon and as part of our trip we visited the stunning Mosteiro dos Jeronimos, built in the 15th century in the Portuguese Gothic Manueline architectural style. As most Portuguese historic buildings, it was full of beautiful painted tile panels (azulejos). This picture is inspired on one such panel. I included some “Found Flowers” to replace the center decoration and changed the color palette. Shaded and colored with Inktense and Pitt Artist Brush pens.
Read MoreOne of the most beautiful historic places in the world has to be the Alhambra in Granada, Spain. This piece is inspired not by any one particular panel, but just the overall look as I was scrolling through my pictures of that place. Using my new favorite palette with blue/greens and oranges, using inktense and pitt brush pens.
Read MoreLast Wednesday I took a lovely class with the CZT After Hours conducted by Pam Signorelli. She introduced two tangles that were new to me, Houdini (Tomas Padrós) and Overlap (Beatrice Aronas). I adapted the project to a 4x6 card, using Pitt brush pens to shade.
Read MoreLast week I was driving around Pasadena, CA and saw the most beautiful ornamental pattern on a building facade that served as inspiration for this picture. I can only guess that it is Art Deco due to the lines and style, and since Pasadena does have some fine examples of that period. Drawn using Inktense paint pads and Pitt brush pens with a waterbrush.
Read MoreThe 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.
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