Zentangle Workshop - Week 13 (Last One!)

This is our last week!  Still, we learned more tangles, more tangleations, and a few projects with Zentangle Inspired Art.

This tile include the official Zentangle tangle Zander (left), Sticker (top right - a pokeroot tangleation), and Warmth (bottom - I don't know whose tangle this is, if you do, please let me know).  On the top left you will see my tangle in its most recent form.  I don't have a name for it yet.

For a project, I created these mountains with tangles.  What is special about them is that they connect on all 4 sides so you can have a continuous pattern - as you can see in the bottom picture.  I then put is on Spoonflower and had them print a swatch of fabric with this pattern.  I received it yesterday, and it is very cool looking!

My second project was a tangled soap dispenser.  I sanded it lightly and glued used teabags to it.  Once dry, I tangled all over it with a black Sakura Glaze pen and added some shading with black watercolor.  Once dry I gave it 3 coats of varnish.  Turned a boring soap dispenser into a not-so-boring one :)

I thoroughly enjoyed this workshop and learned so much!  I will definitely keep tangling as it is so much fun and relaxing.  I hope you enjoyed my creations and give it a try.

My next workshop with the ArtistsOfTheRoundTable Yahoo group will be on Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's book "Carve Stamp Play" starting in March.  I'm looking forward to it! 

Zentangle Workshop - Week 12

This week we worked on Zendalas.  How I love them!!!  I had a lot of fun creating my own mandala designs and then filling them with tangles.  I could easily get hooked on this!!

The design for this one was created mainly with straight lines.  After the tangles were added, I painted it with Inktense.  Here are the versions before and after being painted.

The design for this one was created mainly with rounded lines.  Like the blue one, the tangles were added and then the mandala painted with watercolor pencils.

I already created two more designs, but have not tangled them yet.  I hope you enjoy creating these as much as I do!

Zentangle Workshop - Week 11

Getting another look at all the Zentangle Inspired Art we have created since the beginning!  Here is my mosaic:

 
We then played around with strings, and tried to create new ones.

Then we tried to create our own tangles, and I came up with the two below.  I have since simplified the one on top.  I need to check to make sure they haven't been created by someone else before.  I will then post the steps to create them both.

Mimicking an Illuminated Letter; this one was created with Sakura pens on black paper.  The W (Tipple tangle) was created with Silver, and the grid (Florz tangle) was created with Gold Pink, so the piece is very shimmery.

Two Zentangle tiles using the same string, but done two different ways:  one just touching the edges, the other "filled in":

Zentangle Workshop - Week 10

More new tangles this week; I hope you enjoy them.

Pokeleaf, Growth (Beckah Krahula's tangle - I did not illustrate it below)), Meer, Enyshou (the broom-like pattern on the top right), and Reef (Judy Lehman - on the bottom, between the two channels of Meer):

Eke (right), an Eke tangleation (top), and Sez (bottom left):

And then some more Zentangle Inspired Art in color; this one painted with water-soluble wax crayons... (included the new Pokeleaf and Eke tangleation)

 and this one with H2O's (shimmering watercolors); it includes new tangles Pokeleaf, Eke, and Sez.

It's been really fun to add color to tangles, I hope you give it a try.

Zentangle Workshop - Week 9

This week we learned some more tangles.  As you've seen from last week's post, we're starting to learn some tangles created by other people (not official Zentangle tangles).  I will add the creator's name when it is not an official Zentangle tangle.

Also, this week, we started playing with color and different techniques as you can see from the pictures.

One of the techniques we tried was Faux Batik.  You draw your tangles on watercolor paper with a white Sakura Glaze pen.  Once dry, you paint your tile with watercolors.  The white Glaze pen acts as a resist.

1. Glaze pen and watercolors  2. Outlined tangles with black pen  3.  Added shading with colored pencils

I love this technique, so I created a couple more tiles

Here is a tile painted with Inktense with some of the new tangles and tangleations: Flux tangleations (the leaves in green), and Kathy's Dilemma (the triangle-like pattern on the right).

We also learned about a new enhancer called Perfs (small circles around the edge of a pattern), Striping (bottom left), Taghpodz (Angie Vangalis' tangleation of Tagh - bottom right), and a Pepper tangleation (the cone-like-flowers/plants on the right)

This tile was created by adding watercolors to paper randomly, then using the separation of the different colors on the paper instead of drawing a string.  You can see other examples of Perfs as well.

I hope you enjoyed these new techniques and tangles.

Zentangle Workshop - Week 8

This week we learned a bunch of new tangles.  I hope you enjoy them.

Jetties, Sampson (the pattern on the bottom right below), and 'Nzeppel:

and on colored paper (it seems that from the new tangles, I only used 'Nzeppel below) 

Paradox, and Betweed:

Tagh and Tat (Beckah Krahula's tangle - the leaf-like pattern on the left):

Sometimes when you're done with a tile, it reminds you of something.  This particular one reminds me of a crab every time I look at it!

Enjoy the new tangles, and keep drawing!

Zentangle Workshop - Week 7

No new patterns this week: it was a break, so we just practiced and uploaded a mosaic of some of the tiles and ATCs we have done so far.

Zentangle tiles:

ATCs (Artist Trading Cards):

Fun, fun!!