TANGLES BY THE SEA

The current Zentangle®️ Project Pack #23 was the inspiration for April’s class held at Icarus Creative Arts Studio. Everyone tangled their first initial, using multiple Zentangle patterns with black and gold pens. We used the new 5 Phi tiles to allow a little more tangling room.

The next class will be held on May 19th from 1-3pm at Icarus. Due to larger class sizes, sign up early if you want to save your space. Contact me at tanglesbythesea@gmail.com for your reservation.

March’s class at Icarus was a welcome to Spring … flower gardens. I precolored the Zendalas with pastel watercolors prior to class. Creating a spring garden in black and white begged for a little color. Combining organic patterns like Yumemi, I-Can-Too, Tullup, Effie, Cabbi, and others, the Zendalas came alive.

Next up at Icarus is April 14th. The classes have been filling fast, and seating is limited. Make your plan early to attend by emailing me at tanglesbythesea@gmail.com.

Happy Easter – Happy Spring!

Tangling on black Apprentice tiles, with Sakura white jelly roll pens, was the theme for February’s class. The white pens can be finicky, but happily all six pens performed perfectly. After a little pre-tile practice, everyone figured out how to keep the pens more upright than the usual black microns, and just ‘tickle the paper’, don’t press too hard. Beautiful results were made by all!

With hearts being a staple for the month of February, we used a heart shape as our starting point. We created our string by radiating lines out from the heart (kind of a modified ‘Well’ stroke). The sections were then filled with various patterns (printemps, hollibaugh, zander, flux, florz, mooka, well, love). Shading was done with white chalk pencils, and a bit of gold ink was added for embellishment.

The next class is March 17th at Icarus, from 1-3:00pm. The class is filling up so email me first to be sure seating is available.

Eleven of us gathered this past weekend to salute winter. Since we didn’t meet in December, I wanted to create some kind of seasonal tile. With weather being a big issue the past couple weeks everywhere but San Diego, I decided upon snowflakes. Little did I know that the very next day, San Diego would receive record amounts of rain in one day!

For this class, I chose grey Zendalas with blue ink, blue and white chalk pencils, and graphite. For a little finishing touch, we added clear sparkle and white highlights with Sakura jelly roll pens. The patterns used were Syng, Brr, Afterglow, and Ahh.

The next class will be Sunday, February 18th at Icarus, featuring black tiles and white ink. January’s class was full, so reserve your place early if you’d like to join in. Contact me at tanglesbythesea@gmail.com to reserve.

Welcome to 2024! Three classes are on the schedule for January, February and March.

PLEASE NOTE – the January class is now full. Sign-ups for February and March are open. Looking forward to kicking off a new year of tangling with everyone!

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season! I’ve got the new schedule of classes for the first three months of 2024. The dates are January 21, February 18 and March 17. As usual, these are all Sunday afternoons from 1-3:00pm at Icarus. Cost of class remains $40.00. I’ve welcomed some new Tanglers to my classes so it’s important to sign-up as soon as you know you’d like to attend. Studio space is limited. I sadly had to turn away people in November … no fun!

Enjoy the rest of December and Happy New Year to all!!

October brought tangling on Renaissance zendalas, using brown microns, dark red chalk pencils, white chalk pencils and orange Jelly Roll glitter pens. These colors were a fun change from the usual black and white, and was a perfect combination for an Autumn Zendala. Beautiful work ladies …

The next class is scheduled for Sunday, November 12th, at Icarus. Sign up now to save your seat!

Todays class, at Icarus Creative Arts Studio, featured patterns only, no ‘project’. I thought it would be good to get back to the basics of Zentangle, using black, gray and white, with a dash of graphite and white charcoal! The patterns explored were ‘Singapore Sling’ by Stephanie Jennifer, CZT; ‘Crazy Huggins’ by Zentangle; ‘Aquafleur’ by Zentangle; and ‘Malb’ by Sayomi Koike, CZT. These are all beautiful focal-point patterns. Each one requires more focus and concentration than a lot of other patterns. It was fun to see the completed tiles at the end of class.

I have to give credit and props to Jennifer who attended her first Zentangle class – quite the class to start with! She got it figured out and, by using the mantra ‘one stroke at a time’, was able to keep up and end up with beautiful tiles.

Next up will be a class in October, with the date to be confirmed in the next week. A change of seasons is upon us this week so a tile reflecting Autumn will be on the agenda for October.

The next class on September 17th, at Icarus, will be a ‘return to basics’ theme; creating a variety of tiles using ‘focus’ tangles. Sign up now to save your seat! Contact me at tanglesbythesea@gmail.com.

With the approach of Hurricane Hillary, the August 20th class at Icarus has been cancelled. Next up – September 17th! Sign-ups are now open.

Stay dry!