Echoes.
I think the multiple echoes that tie up this tile are the tangle and the circular repetitions. The shapes of the Marasu and the Cogwheel echo each other. Putting the Fescu on either side of the center creates balance. Finally having the top and bottom Pinwheels echo provide a nice contrast to the more organic designs.
Zentangle drawn on Official Zentangle tile using a black, Micron pen.
Tangles: Cogwheel Fescu Linked Marasu Msst Pinwheels Verdigogh Worms Chartz Static
In this final installment of Marker Madness, I want to talk about storing all those markers I talked about.
If you remember from the previous articles, almost all pens and markers should be stored horizontally. This is particularly important for double-ended markers to insure a good flow of ink to both nibs.
The first option that is sometimes available is to store the markers in the container they came in.
Many.
There are a lot of tangles on this tile. That‘s because I used a string that had many “sections”. But I think it still works because I repeated a couple of the designs and also used a central, bold tangle. Those framed and anchored the whole thing.
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Bristol Vellum using a black Micron pen.
Tangles: Afterglow Coil coral Seeds Floating disks Gingham Hurry Mooka Papyrus Sand Swirl
It‘s a star.
The string in this tangle started out as a star and then warped into what you see here after the random tangles were chosen.
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Bristol Vellum using a black Micron pen.
Tangles: Baton Carrés Circfleur Diva Dance Floo Munchin Nzeppel OOF Pearlz Prestwood Stiritup
Many artists and crafters have not heard of the Too company. It began in 1919 as the Izumiya Art Supply Store in Shibuya, Tokyo. In 1950, they incorporated as the Izumiya Limited Company and in 1965 began exporting art supplies to Europe and the U.S. The Magic Marker Corporation of Japan was established in 1968 as a joint venture with Magic Marker Corporation in the U.S. The COPIC design marker was developed in 1987.
Browns.
I wanted to experiment with different tonal values. Since Micron makes two different brown pens, I though combining those with black would be interesting. I shaded this tile with brown colored pencils.
Zentangle drawn on Official Zentangle tile using brown, sepia and black Micron pens.
Tangles: Centipede Flora Isochor Lacy Locar Purk Ripple Shattuck
Where will we go?
Echo Lines is a technique developed by CZT Eni Oken . While it‘s a simple concept, it creates very complex, flowing, dimensional shapes. This is my first attempt.
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Bristol Vellum using a black Micron pen. Zenstones created with colored pencil, highlights with Sharpie Poster Paint marker.
Tangles: Echo Lines
I already told you some of the history of the Kuretake company in the post about the ZIG Real Color Brush markers . Today I want to talk about another of their products, this time in the Memory System product line. This line of products was designed to preserve memories and archival materials.
The ZIG Memory Writer pens have been around for years. The available colors change from time to time, but the twin-tipped, Memory System Writers are a staple in almost every scrapbooker‘s toolset since 1977.
Rotation.
It‘s interesting the way the design feels like everything is wrapped around the Bunzo as if it‘s surrounded by a mini cyclone of patterns.
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Bristol Vellum using a black Micron pen.
Tangles: Ambler Bunzo Ennies Florz Indy-Rella Jetties Knase Purk
The very first Sharpie marker was a black, indelible ink pen introduced by the Sanford company in 1964. Since that time, the brand has grown to include almost 40 different colors and more than 100 products. While you‘re most familiar with the ubiquitous black marker, today we‘ll take a look at a different critter in the Sharpie lineup.
I‘ve been using the Sharpie Water-Based Paint markers for art journaling for some time now.
Tomorrow is St. Patrick‘s Day. So, even though it‘s a day early, I‘m using this tile, which looks like a basket of shamrocks!
Zentangle drawn on Official Zentangle tile using a black, Micron pen.
Tangles: Fescu Keeko Munchin Sh-Rock Twing W-2
The Faber-Castell company was originally established in 1761 by a cabinet maker named Kaspar Faber. While the company produces many different products, their primary focus is on wood-cased pencils, producing over 2,000 million per year. They are the world‘s largest pencil manufacturer! The company is still family run by the eighth generation member, Count Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell, who took over as head of the company in 1978.
Today we‘re going to take a look at the Faber-Castell Pitt® Big Brush Pens .
Schway in Schway.
In this tangle, the string is Schway and the tangle is also used as a pattern in the tile. My goal here was to create a tile in which the tangles were basically symmetrical.
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Bristol Vellum using a black Micron pen.
Tangles: Schway Eye-Wa Chard Cootie
The Winsor and Newton company began with the partnership of a scientist, William Winsor and an artist, Henry Newton, in 1832. They developed the first glycerine based, moist watercolor cakes which they started selling to other artists in 1835. Prior to this, artists either had to buy their paints from a “colourman” or had to grind their own pigments and mix them with various mediums, such as gum arabic.
The Kuretake company was established in 1902, so it‘s a company with a long history of making art products. The original name was Kuretake Sumi and began with the production of “sumi” brushes. The Kuretake ZIG Corporation was established in the United states in 2014. Now days, they make a wide variety of pens, brushes, watercolors, inks and markers.
A line of products that may be of particular interest to tanglers (people who like to create Zentangles) is Kaleidolines .
Spiders.
Everytime I see this, I think there is a spider lurking about, waiting for her eggs to hatch.
Zentangle drawn on Official Zentangle tile using a black, Micron pen.
Tangles: Aah Afterglow Black Box Black-eyed Peas Centipede Hibred Huggins Munchin Poke-Root
The Tombow brand has been around since it was founded in 1927. The parent company celebrated it‘s 100th Anniversary in 2013.
They began with the production of pencils and sharpeners and manufactured those for over 20 years. The production of felt-tip and ball-point pens began in 1958, and the solvent-free Tombow marker in 1974. The ABT Dual Brush Pen, originally in 72 colors was launched in 1984.
I‘ve been using Tombow Dual Brush Pens for as long as the company has been making them.
Relaxation.
When I hold out this tile and squint at it, I get the feeling of a daybed, or the corner of a couch in an atrium. It feels like I could snuggle against the pillows with a good book or a sketch pad!
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen.
Tangles: Chillon coral Seeds Evoke Façade Onamato Orlique Prestwood Scena Vega
Today‘s marker review is all about Ranger‘s Tim Holtz® Distress Markers 61 Color Canister Set . This is a set of 61 differently colored, double-ended markers. I purchased these on line from Amazon because they weren‘t available in any local store that I knew of. They arrived in a couple of days.
The markers arrived in a cylindrical plastic container with a removable black plastic top.
There were two stickers on the sides of the container reminding the owner to store the markers horizontally.
For the first set of markers, let‘s take a look at a very affordable option: Crayola Washable Super Tips Markers, 100 count . This is a set of 100 differently colored markers.
I purchased these markers at a local Walmart store. They were not prominently displayed. They were on a bottom shelf, below the hanging and flat display for other Crayola products. Unfortunately, I don‘t remember the exact price, but it was under $20, which is very reasonable for this many markers.