Sharing the Zentangle® Art Method in La Jolla & San Diego
Just spent a great Sunday afternoon sharing Zendalas with eight new friends at the Icarus Creative Arts Studio in the Bernardo Winery. Had a brief show and tell to start, then we got into the circular art of the Zendala. We used pre-strung tiles for… Continue Reading “Mandala Meets Zendala …”
Yesterday, I led a class entitled “Patterns & Paper” at the Icarus Creative Arts Studio. Six ladies, who have recently discovered Zentangle, shared their Sunday afternoon together as we learned eight new tangle “patterns”. The “paper” came into play when we folded Lotka paper into Beckah Krahula’s “Folders… Continue Reading ““Patterns & Paper” …”
As usual, the first Diva Challenge of each month features a pattern created by “the tangling public”. This months tangle was created by Lynn Mead called “Fassett”. It looks complicated, but it is quite simple. This is a fun pattern that can be used different ways. I opted to… Continue Reading “Challenge #262…Fassett”
The Diva has a guest Blogger for this week’s challenge – Jane Reiter, CZT, who has given us a “Stacked Bijou Challenge”. When I saw it my first thought was “this will take too long”, but I got out some paper this evening and worked my… Continue Reading “Challenge #261 … Stacked!”
About a month ago, I started a “Cross Country Tile Collaboration” with CZT’s Lauryn Eldon, Charlotte Carpentier and Maria Pahos-Benson. We each started three tiles, creating a string with four spaces. After we filled in one of the sections, they were mailed “round robin”… Continue Reading “Cross Country Collaboration …”
Made these Bijou Tangled Gardens to put in student supply kits for “Tangled Garden Class”. So fun to make and share.
I’ve scheduled new classes for April, May and June at Icarus Design Studio located on the grounds of the Bernardo Winery. There’s a class for everyone in this mix! Two Intro Classes are scheduled – Sunday, April 3rd and Sunday, June 5th. In between those,… Continue Reading “New Class Schedule …”
CLASS IS FULL! I have three seats left for the Introduction to Zentangle Class this coming Sunday, February 21st, from 1:00-3:00pm, in the Icarus Creative Arts studio. Icarus is located on the grounds of the Rancho Bernardo Winery. This class will show you the fundamentals of Zentangle… Continue Reading ““Intro to Zentangle” Class …”
I signed up to participate in a ATC Swap titled “Hearts & Flowers”. You could use a heart or flower shape as your string OR use heart and flower patterns to fill your tile. I opted for the Diva Dance pattern (“Rock n Roll”)… Continue Reading “ATC Swap – Hearts & Flowers …”
Zentangle introduced a new pattern recently … “Molygon”. The Diva has challenged us to use this pattern in our work for this week. It’s a fun one to draw, but takes a little practice. Sometimes I found my “molygons” were too skinny or too… Continue Reading “Challenge #253 … “Molygon””