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It’s been a long while since I’ve created a medallion piece! This one started with a star reticulum filled up with fragments from the Zentangle Primer. Love it!
Last Sunday Art Clubbers and I had a fantastic and super intense class on how to create gorgeous 3-dimensional popup flower cards. We painted the paper, cut out flowers and assembled them. The cards can be folded and sent in an envelope!
Creating a simple black and white tile is my favorite way to meditate with Zentangle. The Art Raffle app pulled out Tidings, Diva Dance, Fracas (all three Zentangle) and Ayame (Emiko Kaneko).
So excited about this next class. For many months I’ve been exploring popup cards and finally this is going to be a class.
Another update to the Art Raffle app: this time mostly string cards, but also my new tangle Voadora.
A monotangle using my new tangle Voadora, suggested by Lisa G. during Art Club feedback session. Took me so long to make all those little patterns!!!!
Yesterday Art Clubbers and I had a session using only straight lines. I also introduced a new tangle called “Voadora”.
I really enjoyed this combo of Pangea and Mrth on a Zendala, created during ZenAgain. I like it so much I went and created TWO MORE!
Last Sunday Art Clubbers and I had a super fun class on how to create these pretty Printers’ Ornaments. We worked on two projects - such fun!
Playing with Printers’ Ornaments: a rectangular headpiece in pink with gems, made with two different fine-liners. Love this!
Still playing with these Printers’ Ornaments, this time I added them to a birthday card.
This week I participated in the CZT event ZenAgain. One of the sessions channeled Leonardo Da Vinci and his wacky inventions over an opus tile.
Day 2 of ZenAgain! Lots of fun things to learn, but my favorite discovery was how much I enjoyed the tangle ING which I normally don’t use. Fun! #ZenAgain2021
I was preparing for an upcoming class on Printers Ornaments when I found a way to repurpose the beautiful Zentangle project pack envelopes. Fun idea!
This is the picture I created during the Ogee Grid class last Sunday. WHAT A FUN CLASS it was. We used so much media, gold pens, inking pens, watercolors, colored pencils, whew! Tangles are Moonpie (Zentangle), 123O’leary (Antonine Koval) and Fluxecho (Lynn Mead).
ZenAgain2021 starts in just little over a week and I’m pumped! Here is my “homework”, an embedded letter with some crazy dangling gems, don’t ask me where they came from. #ItsTimeforZenAgain2021
Another Ogee Grid piece in preparation for my class, this time in blue and orange, a favorite color combo of mine. Includes Ple-a tangle (Apple Lim) which is also part of Inktober. Does this count?
While preparing for my upcoming class on Ogee grid, I used it as a string on my daily meditation. The result is an odd illusion where you can't tell what is in front and what is behind, depending on how you look.
I had a ton of fun with these Ogee Grid pieces over Phi tan tiles inspired by historic ottoman textiles. So much detail! Tangles are Moon Pie, Fluxecho and 123 O’leary.
Still playing with Tri-Roda, this time with IX tangle. I feel like I could have gone even deeper with the shading!
Day 13 and 24 of Inktober Tangles include Spynes and Zigoli. My daily meditation also include some funky pedestals and the usual flowing ribbons.
My goal is to always explore different ways to approach tangles, enhancers and strings. Today I played with more Fengle (Zentangle), using different ways to connect and 3-dimensionalize.
Day 11 of Inktober calls for Fengle. Fun to make these with lots of movement!
Day 10 of Inktober calls for Hirari (Midori Furuhashi). I dressed it up with colored pencils and brown ink over tan tile.
A couple of blossom tangles over tan paper. Lots of painting and treatment over this one! Super fun.
The Art Raffle app is now totally ready for Inktober. I also included in the blog a step-by-step suggestion on how you can use the app during Inktober.
My offerings for Inktober Tangles 2021 with Lunar Flux and Naaki. #inktobertangles2021
Today Art Clubbers and I had a continuation of the Radial Blossoms class (of 2017) creating an intensely full picture.
The Art Raffle app is slowly getting ready for Inktober 2021 with 9 more cards, bringing the total up to 422 cards.
Spent the morning with college friends playing with classic Zentangle and the Art Raffle. So much fun!
The first part of a multi-part series covering all the secrets of how to understand and apply colorful shading to Zentangle work.
A new update to Art Raffle honoring the memory of Bunny Wright who left us too soon, celebrating her wonderful tangles.
This week we had a spectacularly fun lesson on how to create Viking-looking knots using tangles Yah and Jaysix.
As the year comes to an end, it’s important to evaluate what you learned. Let’s create an end-of-year inchie mosaic!
As we approach the end of a year of extremes, a strange type of diffuse coloring style emerges in this picture.
Having so much fun preparing for my class on Faux Viking knots. This one mixed with Nik, Mooka and Cadent.
Art Clubbers and I had a super interesting hands-on class on how to start thinking of string theory and composition in Zentangle.
In my search for the perfect smudge-free black pencil for heavy shading, I tested a few different options of colored pencils.
An interesting technique of how to add distress and a more organic, natural look through shaky lines.
I’ve been channeling winterland, perhaps I want this strange year to be over. Gold, white and black over blue.
I combined Tan Depth with a Celtic-looking knot for my daily meditation. What a fun effect!
Art Clubbers and I had an ultra advanced live online class on how to add 3-dimensional depth to shapes.
Two more over black tiles, this time using Echoism and some basic concepts from Project Pack 11.
Combining various things, Gourdgeous, black tiles over a Phi Tile from Project Pack 11.
Zentangle HQ just released what is probably my favorite project pack ever, with a new tile with golden ratio proportions.
We had a live class packed with students and information on how to shade 3-dimensionally over black tiles.
Tangling and shading over black tile is a difficult technique which requires looking at the picture with a completely different perspective.
Just finished a wonderfully relaxing class using the Art Raffle in Guided mode.
A new update of the Art Raffle, now with the option of a GUIDED mode (only string and tangles). Also, featuring Jody Genovese's incredibly elegant and meditative tangles.
I think classic Zentangle is my favorite of all techniques. Black and white! Dewd, W2, Hibred, Ravel and Indy-rella.
On Sunday I had a get together with a group of new tanglers, all Brazilian family and friends. Was such fun to do classic Zentangle using the Art Raffle app.
Still playing with W2 a-la-Celtic Knot, one in color that looks like a magic carpet, and another one with two very entangled fish.
IT'S HERE!!!! Art Raffle for Android is now available in the Google Play store, thanks to Alan's diligent hard work in making this happen.
Just finished the second part of the Entangled Animals series which included birds and reptiles. Such a fun and intense class.
This incredible lesson is now available to the public to be purchased individually.
Still playing with W2 a-la-Celtic Knot, this one combined with Malaca, African Artist, Purk and more.
I’m still fascinated by Faux Viking knots. I found inspiration on Norwegian architecture to produce this very straight and angular piece.
Last Friday Art Clubbers and I had a the second part of the Vines and Berries project where we covered detailed and ultra-dimensional shading.
Last Friday Art Clubbers and I had a live class (Part 1) on how to draw this challenging design. On Friday we’ll complete the shading!
For months now I’ve been mesmerized with all things knotted. Now playing with Viking-inspired treatment.
More vines and berries, in preparation for my next upcoming class. This time dealing with symmetry, super challenging!
What a super fun lesson I had with Art Club members playing with Spoken and Frames and Corners.
A super fun class with Art Clubbers, learning how to explore articulated Molygon into gorgeous 3-dimensional towers.
Playing with Articulated Molygon and preparing some samples for the Molygon Towers class.
The video lesson Twisted Ropes is back again, now available at my shop for individual purchase.
A lesson completely PACKED with information on how to design and colorize a digital mandala using Procreate app. A great class!
Last picture of what was a very turbulent decade. I sure hope the next decade brings us all a bit of peace and tranquility, and BEAUTIFUL, LOVELY art.
It was about time that I put together all the materials I have on how to shade Zentangle 3-dimensionally. This bundle is made of 3 videos plus the super successful Shading Fearlessly ebook.
One of my most beloved lessons is finally back in the shop — how to frame and embellish quotes to create a precious piece you'll want to cherish or give to a loved one.
I finished the Crazy Huggins picture that I started during the last online live session I held for my Art Clubbers. Took me hours to shaded this, but was so much fun!
We had yet another live online session with participants of my Art Club group. We explored the tangle Crazy Huggins and how to make it super 3-dimensional. I LOVE online sessions!
The intermediate/advanced lesson Freeform Knots is back again, now at my new lesson shop.
I completed my second picture based on the beautiful ceiling of the Pisa Duomo, inspired by the Virtual Art Tour we took on November 29th. This one using colored pencils and Cadent tangle pattern.
Learn how to create a rich tapestry of detail over your tangle patterns and also how to embellish cherished photographs to give to loved ones.
As the end of the year approaches, my self-imposed deadline to add all lessons to the new shop is looming. 3D Grids is now back again in the new shop!
I played with tangles Hollis and Moon Pie using the gray round tiles provided by Zentangle founders for their Project Pack 07 (day 6). Such fun!
The very lovely Lotus Flower lesson is back again, finally transferred to the new system!
We had another live online class with Art Clubbers yesterday, exploring how to draw the tangle pattern Hollis, to form a Hollis tree. 40 participants in a fun live class!
We had the debut of the Art Club Virtual Tours, a completely new kind of live online session where you not only get to draw with other fellow artists, you also VISIT a location virtually first. We went to Pisa, Italy!
Art Clubbers and I are just starting to play with the Sketching Urban Detail lesson. This example, I dug up some old photos from 20 years ago to capture Santa Monica's Spanish Colonial revival.
If you love to travel, enjoy the fun of drawing historic architectural details from around the world. Learn the tips and tricks of sketching urban details on location!
Combined two interesting concepts: Hollis (a new tangle by Zentangle) and an Articulated Molygon variation.
This is an insider picture: some interesting papers I “accidentally” made which look like tie-dye.
During the last class of the year, Art Clubbers and I had a “Back to Basics” class and a short recap of all the projects we did in 2021.