“One Zentangle A Day” by Beckah Krahula - Day 9 - Black Tiles
Today’s lesson was all about drawing on black tiles. There were no new tangles introduced.
Drawing on black isn’t any more difficult than drawing on white. However, you do have to think a bit differently. You are adding the lightest value to the tile with your lines. However, you are still adding shading and highlights to the same places as on a regular black on white Zentangle.
“One Zentangle A Day” by Beckah Krahula - Day 7 - Tangleations
Today’s lesson was all about tangleations. When you start with a basic tangle as a beginning and vary it beyond the standard design, it is called a Tangleation. The assignment was to use tangles that were already introduced and draw them in new and different ways.
It was suggested to draw on an ATC. I chose to cut one out of paper I already had which I find works well for tangling.
“One Zentangle A Day” by Beckah Krahula, Day 4.
For this day, the new tangles are Jonqual, Nipa and Shattuck. The focus is on angular vs circular patterns. As an interesting shading exercise, the circles in Nipa could be shaded as an orb…or a hole!
I kept the string very simple, drawing a square at and angle in the center of the tile.
I drew the lines within Shattuck and Tipple so that they weren’t perfectly straight or even to add more interest. Because both Shattuck and Nippa are mostly lots of lines, I placed them so that the directions were a contrast to each other.
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.
The final lesson for Project Pack 8 involves drawing on six 3-Z tiles. Since this is also the week of registration and sports tryouts for school, it will take me a few days to complete the set.
In the interim, here is a standard completed tile, using my standard method of randomly choosing tangles and filling in a string. I did incorporate a few new variations of traditional tangles that I’ve recently learned. It meant a lot of line work, but these tiles generally finish quickly.
PP08 - Day 6 - Doo Dah, Knightsbridge, MI2, Shattuck
The video for this tile is located here .
To begin this project, I had to recreate this particular string on a white Zendala tile. I didn’t have one in my stash that I could use. Fortunately, it turned out to be fairly easy to do.
I found it interesting to divide the tile with the MI2 tangle. In the end result, I’m not sure I like it. I was certainly uncomfortable to work this way.
When I draw tangles chosen at random, I sometimes get combinations that pose challenges. At first glance, it seemed like these wouldn’t combine well. But the tangle Sedgling suggested a garden theme… which is what I went with.
Here is a question: Are the Jetties falling like rain? Or floating up and away like seeds or pollen?
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen. Shading done with graphite pencil.
Today I was rearranging a row of drawers in my office studio when I came across an unfinished ATC (Artist Trading Card), probably from 2018. It had the border completed and the large Well leaf-like shapes had been drawn.
I decided to add some large MOOKA shapes all around and then just filled in between the upper ones with perfs.
I added the inner lines to the flower petals to make them look a bit like they were cupped.
On Wednesday, I decided to tangle a tile with whatever I felt like. Crazy Huggins is one of my favorite tangles. If you look through the Zentangle Gallery here, or click on Crazy Huggins in the tangle list at the bottom of the right side, you can see how many times I’ve done this tangle as a kind of “string”, and then filled in the centers with other tangles!
Merry Christmas from our family to you and yours. May this day find you enjoying the company of friends and relatives near and far. We wish for you peace and joy!
Tangles: dewd shattuck zailz
Today, I took Eni Oken's Art Raffle app for a spin. This tile is the result! For my first tile in eons, it’s not bad! If you tangle, you should get this FREE app, it’s lots of fun!
Zentangle drawn on an white, official, Zentangle tile, using a black, Micron pen. Shading done with graphite pencil.
Tangles: Antidot Bales Beedz Crescent Moon Emingle Hollibaugh Knase Knightsbridge Perfs Printemps Shard Shattuck Stiritup Tagh
Sometimes the simplest tangles can have a powerful impact. It depends on how you treat them.
Here, I used Hollibaugh, but gave it a bit of a curve. Then I made it holey!
And a little touch of blue just makes it magical.
ATC #11
Zentangle drawn on a cut down, grey, Official Zentangle tile using a blue, Micron pen, cobolt, Copic Multiliner, and white Gelly Roll. Shading done with graphite, Copic marker and colored pencil.
Note: Some of the inks used did not scan well. There are silver and copper dots which here, appear to be orange and white.
There are a lot of differences in composition when you work on a rectangular piece, as compared to a square. However, this one works on either. The only difference is that I like it better with a horizontal emphasis. On the square version, I liked it better with a vertical emphasis.
This is my first Zentangle created on a new grey Zentangle tile. This new color was just released by the company this week.
The color is a soft, light grey, that looks good with the entire range of Zentangle tools. I love having a grey tile because it allows me to add both shading and highlights for a full range of values.
Right now, you can get the tiles in various sizes from your local CZT.
Last Monday, I wrote a post about my New Zentangle Voyagers class. This is a set of 3 classes that I am teaching at cARTel Studio. The same students are in each class.
This week, the students learned about drawing on black tiles. They did a monotangle on a black Bijou tile. The second project was this Crazy Huggins, with tangles in each hug-shape. The third project was a 3-dimensional stand they can use to display a tile on their desk at work or home.
Melting Mooka, introduced to us by Zentangle's Project Pack #6 , is a wonderful version of Mooka that can be used to as a string to divide a tile into smaller spaces.
These internal sections, when filled with other tangles, result in a tile that gives the impression of stained glass windows.
This was a fun, playful exercise!
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen. Shading done with graphite pencil.
For me, this is the traditional way of drawing Shattuck. As an alternative, it could be done with straight lines, instead of curved. I do it both ways, depending on what I am working on.
Zentangle drawn on black, Strathmore, Artagain paper using a white, Sakura, gel pen. Shading done with Copic Markers and black colored pencil. Highlighting done with General’s Charcoal White.
Tangles: Shattuck
This tile was created following the instructions from Eni Oken ’s Art Club ’s latest lesson, Glazed Whitework .
It all started with a watercolor tile. It was an interesting challenge to draw the string and all of the tangles using a white colored pencil. Then more color was added creating the depth and shading you see here.
One of the most challenging things was to select appropriate tangles. It’s much more difficult to create detail with colored pencils than if you were using an inking pen.
Another tile from Eni Oken's Crazy Gold Auraknot lesson!
I am making progress with the lesson. Here, I’ve added the designs to the stripes of the tangle. I stuck with the black and white because I just wanted to get a feel for how to do it.
I’ll finally be using metallic ink on the next one!
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen. Shading done with graphite pencil, colored pencil and copic markers.
On the back of this tile, created by Amanda, is written:
“If you can’t run, then walk
If you can’t walk, then crawl,
But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”
—Martin Luther King, Jr.
As we are working on tiles, we hear or think of things that we want to remember going forward. So the back of our tiles become a kind of journal, over time, as we write notes on them.