This is a tutorial of a detailed mandala design that has a number of intersected mandala he patterns. The tutorial is divided into a wide number of easy steps.
The first part of a multi-part series covering all the secrets of how to understand and apply colorful shading to Zentangle work.
One of my favorite things about tangling is how one thing often turns into something else, which turns into something kind of unexpected and wonderful. Thought I'd share this serendipitous moment with you, since you're here and all. ;o) I won't blather on... here y'go. An earlier version (why yes, I did name the file 'holidala'), with ribbon running throughout. The brilliant minds over at the tanglebucket studio facebook page (unanimously) voted for color. Soo glad I listened. Here's Akoya proper drawn as a simple border, no fluff. a fancypants little star for the holidays... I just love this pattern as a border. ...the how-to: If you're not a perfectionist, please disregard the following... Some helpful hints- 'cause you know I'm way too chatty to just drop and run: Step 1: Space evenly and draw slowly so your pearls don't end up with tails. When in doubt, go with a smaller pen size or draw a little bigger than usual until you get a feel for the way the elements of this pattern fit together. Step 2: This line should start close to the top middle of the first pearl and extend close to the bottom middle of the next pearl. If these shapes aren't slanted enough, there won't be enough room to vary the sizes of the outer lines of pearls in Step 3 and 4. Try to draw each line as an extension of the curve it's coming off of, so you're less likely to have a big 'dent' in between pearls and lines (which is awkward to fill in). Step 4: To get a good smooth curve, keep in mind that the biggest pearl in the middle is the halfway point of each section, not the end. Step 5: Make these shapes as big and as round as possible. Draw on the lines that are already there so your circles are nice and big in there. Ideally, you want as few spaces as possible to fill in with black in your last step. The less black fill you have in the middle, the better your final result will look. Step 6: Think of this step as spackle, to smooth out those pesky little valleys. Given my track record this past year, you're unlikely to see another blog post from me before January... soooo, Merry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah/Happy Kwanzaa/Happy new year! • ❃ • ❋ • ❁ • ✿ • ✽ • ❀ • Thanks for stopping by! Feel free to join me here, where I frequently share artsy things that inspire me, invite tanglers to share art, crack silly jokes, and offer up the occasional tangle prompt. :oD ❀
Hi everyone... my Tangling friends I have loaded up some patterns... this is a template I downloaded from http://tanglepatterns.com/downloads it's great to play around with your own patterns... and a great way of practising them On of my all time favourite Paradox Triangles in my last post I used this pattern in the centre of my design One of my absolutely favourite patterns Paradox Square I use this pattern lots This Pattern Lap is a bit fiddley but looks amazing this one was designed by Lizzie Mayne in 2012 Another great pattern Cicerone looks affective This pattern Basket Weave can be done in many ways you just have to choose what you want it to look like... great for background on large designs This pattern Daisy Square you can do so much with I love this Pattern Tangled Ribbons very easy to do.. Well I hope they have been great inspiration for you to try.. have ago and try them out.... or even design your own... please share them with me HappyTangling Judy
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Ever since zenAgain, where the tangle Ratoon was introduced, I have been waiting (and waiting!) to be able to include it in a weekly IAST. Just this week, the good people at Zentangle® released the step out in their newsletter. YAY! Now the whole tangling world can play with this ingenious tangle. One of our exercises at zenAgain was to follow along as Molly walked us through Ratoon's basic steps. From there, we embellished it with our own touches. This is how my zendala turned out ~ Zendala from zenAgain 2018 featuring Ratoon by Adele Bruno, CZT Let's try this same exercise together this week. On your choice of tile, tangle a basic Ratoon and then embellish it to your heart's delight. Feel free to keep it very simple or add more Ratoon and tangles of your choice. Our string then, will be the simple circle that Ratoon begins with. Place it anywhere on your tile and begin. The Ratoon step out by Maria Thomas can be found here in the latest Zentangle newsletter. I will post a few Tips for Tangling Ratoon later this week. Feel free to use any size and color of tile. Here are the (Not so) Official Guidelines: * Challenges are posted on Tuesdays. *Use the string posted for the week and some or all of the suggested patterns * Submit a photo of your tile saved as jpg or scan your tile (300 dpi or higher) and save as a jpg *Email your jpg file as an attachment to - [email protected] *Entries for IAST are to be submitted by Saturday evening of the week issued *Photos and notes are (usually) posted on the following Monday Send in your photos - you will encourage and inspire fellow Zentangle® enthusiasts all over the world. WHEN YOU SIGN YOUR NAME, PLEASE INCLUDE WHERE YOU LIVE. FOR EXAMPLE: ADELE BRUNO (FLORIDA) PLEASE NOTE: It is not necessary for you to have a blog or website to participate. If you do have a blog or website, I will add a link upon request. Please include the site specific URL. I look forward to your emails. Enjoy!
I post relatively little lately, it's because I have other obligations (administrative among others...) and in fact less availability for calligraphy. Nevertheless, here is the result of a recent commission, an MCC monogram. Prussian & cobalt blue & gold leaf
This is the 3rd (and last) step out for the tangles of Day 10 in the "One Zentangle a Day" book I've been working through. I really had fun moving the corner "dark" space into different configurations to create additional interesting versions. I love how this pattern looks once shaded. I drew this step out on an ATC. This photo shows the front and back of the card.
A new pattern! Part 1 I am so excited about this versatile new pattern. Allow me to begin with how I named it, and then work my way to the tangle itself. It's name is Bud for my son Louie. He's a man of few words, and even fewer first thing in the morning or at the end of a school day. In working with him on that - as I tend to be very talkative - I usually give him a quick shout out as he walks by, "Hey Bud!" Versatility describes Louie. Name something and he can do it - and with ease, often wondering why it's so special to anyone else watching. Here is a sampling of what I mean: Catch a 'lunker' bass, no problem. Throw a cast net in the surf and hand feed an egret and a great blue heron, no problem. Throw a vase, no problem. Take phenomenal photos, no problem. Run up a tree, no problem. Run up a tree?! Yes... Go fishing and catch an alligator....NO problem. ...but there are some things a mother should just not see... On to the pattern - In the first parent/student assembly marking the beginning of Louie's senior high school year, I scribbled an idea on the back page of my check book. It was the only paper I had in my purse :) The idea grew into a simple and very fun tangle. Here is the step out for Bud. The more I played with the initial design, the more versatile it became. And there is more, but this post is getting a bit long! Check back tomorrow. I will post the step-out for even more variations and a few more finished tiles. In the meantime, play with this pattern and see what you can come up with. Have fun!
I've had some fun with Maryhill and the pre-strung Zentangle® Zendalas. Both of these used the same pre-strung tile pattern, and in each I chose to add to and ignore some of the string. For the first tile, I went with smaller segments and my lines were closer together. While I do really like it, it's a little busy. I decided with the second that I would use larger segments and space the lines further apart. I thought I'd share how the second tile evolved. Posted with Blogsy
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This year's Twelve Days of Zentangle was a project to create a tangle spinner. I got the Project Pack #4 from Zentangle, but it can be done on other surfaces, and the videos can be followed in any order. The twelve days video series begins here. My project pack contained Light Olive and Light Blue water-soluable pencils. There are a lot of colors available so it's a surprise what you receive! The project pack contains two papers, two plastic spinners, two colored pencils, a 01 black pen, a pencil, and tortillon, and a watercolor brush. I wanted my tangles to be black and white so I put color in other areas. I wanted to include mainly tangles that I really like but sometimes forget. The alphabet ring immediately made me think of doing tangles beginning with those letters, so that's how I proceeded, rather than wedge by wedge. This worked for most of the spinner but towards the end there were tangles I wanted to include but no letter-appropriate space, so it's not strictly alphabetical. As "no surface is safe" the corners are tangled, too. There's gold ink to two of the rings, and one totally messed up section that I left alone because there are no mistakes. I didn't do shading until all the ink drawing was done. I finished by painting the surface with matte acrylic varnish. Here's my completed spinner:
Learn how easy it is to draw a Petal Mandala with a compass. Barb Owen shows you the easiest way to make your own magic mandala! Compass, pencil, pens. GO!
Patterns: Well, InaPod, Maria's Flux, Olluan, Unknown Fan-thing
DIVA Challenge #365 The task of this DIVA challenge was to create a monotangle of Carol Ohl`s tangle PUF. This is my contribution, drawn on a renasisance Zendala with a wonky grid as basis. The tiles for thi DIVA Challenges #363 and #364 I first posted and linked on Instagram. I created the blogpost later, if you are interseted to read more, look at my blogpost here. The result of Lonettas Tangle Mosaic Project #13 I posted in a separate post here. Recently I run two Zentangle classes - Black and 3Z. I am so happy with the results of my students and I saw them so happy that I want to share with you the results. Zentangle Black Class: I prepared three diffrent black tiles for this class. First as a introduction Rick`s tangelation of Crescent Moon: Second: The tangle Spoken as string for some different areas to fill. I showed my students how to use the Zenstone and to draw with black again on white, I showed some possibilities and variations and they filled the areas in their own way. The third tile is an Apprentice tile. We discovered the different white Gelly Rolls (05/08/10) 3Z Mosaic Class I was curious about this class - I never made such a mosaic before. First we used a prestrung 3Z tile and filled with Striping and Staric in two colours. As we had six 3Z tiles we could create a hexagon mosaic. See some variations of the mosaic: The second 3Z is a combination of `Nzeppel, Shattuck, Maryhill, Flukes and Mooka , using the blue Micron 01 and the dark blue Micron PN Here we combined all 12 tiles to Stars: And this was our third tile with a "Well" string. When I see this fotos I am still happy rememberig this class- full of positive energy. Thank you, ladies!! The beauty of peonies - Die Pracht der Pfingstrosen I wish you all a happy new week and a perfect Summer!
Little exercise to pass the time: what romantic text am I working on? The clue is of course the letter which starts the text (and the gilding is part of the solution). As it's a bit tenuous, another clue is prose, it's in French and I've already calligraphed a text by this author. Whoever gives me the author's name will get something when the post office starts working normally again. And another thing for the person who finds the passage in question. Take care and stay at home :-) Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
