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Project Pack 22 - Day 1

For the first lesson of this project pack, (video located here ,) Rick takes us down the path of using a pre-strung Phi tile to make a beautiful spiral design.

I loved the design and it was not difficult to do. Coloring in the various orbs and petal shapes was fun since the Gelly Roll pens just flow out ink that you can kind of push around to make an even colored area.

On the other hand, those same areas are very difficult to shade. The graphite doesn’t really color over it.

The pastel pencils work so well on the paper that Zentangle tiles are made from! You end up with lovely color variation.

Over all, I really enjoyed this lesson!

Zentangle drawn on a prestrung, white, Zentangle Phi tile using a black and brown Micron pens. Coloring done with Gelly Roll Moonlight Pens and General’s pastel pencils. Shading done with graphite pencil and General’s pastel pencils. Highlights created with white Gelly roll and white chalk pencil.

Tangles: Flux Shattuck