Diva Challenge #88: "Official Tangle: IX"

Busy teaching classes (see sidebar on left for October class dates!) and preparing to do demonstrations at the Franklin Harvest Festival this Sunday (see post below) but didn't want to miss the chance to post my "IX" tiles :) The Diva's challenge this week is to create a Zentangle or ZIA (Zentangle Inspired Art) using a new 'official' tangle (meaning that it was designed and released by the folks at Zentangle!) whose name is "IX". Below is my response to the challenge. To see other responses to the challenge or to submit a response yourself, check out the Diva's Challenge at :  http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.com. Enjoy!

Franklin Harvest Festival and October Schedule

Food, fun, entertainment, crafters and vendors... Celebrate our New England fall season this weekend by attending the Franklin Harvest Festival and while you are there stop by at Franklin Art Center to learn more about Zentangle and see for your self how easy and beautiful this art form is. Join in the fun by helping us select patterns for our Harvest Festival 2012 Zentangle. You can find me at Franklin Art Center, 5 Main Street. See you there!

October schedule ....for class dates and times for October see the sidebar on the left of this page. For full details about classes click on the "Class Information" tab at the top of this page or CLICK HERE.

Class schedule - September 2012

Hi everyone! After a wonderful summer introducing people to Zentangle at classes at Franklin Art Center, we are looking forward to continuing our program with opportunities to 'tangle' throughout the fall and winter. We have scheduled two Beginners Workshops in September - one on a Sunday afternoon and one on a weekday evening. In addition Franklin Art Center is pleased to offer regular Tangle Time classes. Hosted and guided by a Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT), Tangle Time is an opportunity for tanglers to get together, ask questions, share ideas and learn and practice new tangles. For full details click on the "Class Information" tab at the top of this page or CLICK HERE.

Two types of shading

We had a wonderful 'Beyond the Basics' with Paula Sherwin at the art center last week. Paula gave us some wonderful ideas on how to develop our zentangle practice as a meditative practice. During class we also talked a little more about shading so I wanted to post a tile that shows two different examples of shading. We talked about how adding a little shading around the edges of a section will create a 'pillow effect', where the edges appear to fall back and the center of the section 'pops' out. I shaded the outside of all the sections, but I think the effect shows most in the spirals in the top left section, and on the 'Perk' sections (the ones that look like a beehive or chrysalis?). Shading can also be applied anywhere that something goes under something else. In the 'Printemps' section (closely packed spirals in top right) anywhere one spiral goes behind another I added some shading to the one that goes behind.

Tangles: Printemps, Perk, Knightsbridge

Remember to rotate your tile as you work and when you have finished to see how it changes when viewed in different orientations! Here is my tile photographed in different orientations...

Which one do you like best??? :) This weeks challenge from the Diva uses Mi2 and is a great way to practice shading of places that 'go under'. Click here to see my design using Mi2.

Diva Challenge #80: Mi2

So many beautiful examples of Mi2 in the responses to The Diva's challenge this week, and practicing Mi2 perfectly complements our discussion of shading at the Beyond the Basics class last weekend! I love how such simple steps create such an elegant pattern so I decided to dedicate the whole tile to Mi2.

Tangles: Mi2

Zentangle Inspired Art - Work in Progress

Inspired by the tangle 'Printemps', which we used in Molly's Beginner's Workshop, I began work on a larger piece of art work. Because it is not done on the traditional Zentangle 3.5" by 3.5" square tile it is considered not to be a true Zentangle, but rather a Zentangle Inspired Art or ZIA.It is a work in progress and doesn't have any shading on it yet, but I like how it's evolving...

Beginners Workshop with Molly Hollibaugh - July 7, 2012

Another wonderful set of tiles! These are from Molly's Beginner Workshop class at Franklin
Art Center on July 7th. Thanks for leading us through your favorite tangles including a new one that doesn't have a name yet!

Tangles used: Florz, Crescent Moon, Hollibaugh, 'unnamed'

Monotangle: Munchkin

Tangles used: Purk, Printemps, N'Zeppel, Fescu