Rosetanglezenmaling???!!! My twist on Zentangle and Rosemaling

When I became disabled about 13 years ago, and then started to experience being an artist, I began painting everything in sight. It became a running joke with my kids.

 "Oh no, I scuffed my new white tennis shoes!" 
 "I can paint it for you." 
 "N-o-o-o-o-o!!!!"  

They were terrified I meant it when I said I would paint leopard spots and paislies on our faded car. I painted quite a large design on our front door, a trompe l'oeil window on the living room wall, seasonal scenes on the 4 panels of a wood cabinet.... Some of my artistic exuberance included an old traditional Norwegian furniture painting style called Rosmaling (which means decorative flower painting), and other related forms, which I experimented with making into a style of my own.  A few examples remain, and are pictured below.  I called them  my fantasmagorical-florical designs.  (Can you tell I was a "flower child" of the 70's?)

When I recently spent hours and days doing Zentangle I noticed some similarities between the two, even though Rosemaling is brush-painted and Zentangle is pen-drawn.  So I experimented with combining the shared elements of them both. I enjoyed the process and resulting designs. I hope you will try it. Maybe you'll like it, too. I would love to see what you come up with!
And please tell me what you think it should be called!  Happy Zen-rose-fantasmagorical-florical-tangle-maling!!!

Zentangle officianatos will recognize many of the design elements seen here.

This is probably my favorite so far.

Over the top! - Maybe too much, eh?

Oops, a little fuzzy, but you get the idea.

THREE STARTED/ IN PROGRESS

PLATE IS NOT MY WORK, BUT JUST ONE OF A ZILLION BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLES OF ORIGINAL ROSEMALING

I'm A Tangle Wrangler, Plus more tangles and some Zentangle product info..

My last post showed the first few tangles I did, and told of an awesome deal I discovered at Walmart for the Zentangle classroom kit (which anyone can buy/use). I enjoy it so, and believe in the benefits so much that I will volunteer to teach the "Zentangle method" for some local classes.  It's too bad I cannot become a CZT (Certified Zentangle Teacher). Being disabled, I fear I cannot withstand the long classroom hours, nor can I afford the fee and travel expense on disability pay. (sigh)
Even though I started only 5 weeks ago, I have done so many tangles and zentangle inspired art tiles, and even come up with a few new tangles of my own, that I decided I am qualified to be called a Tangle Wrangler! (lol). I cut some circles and did some "Zendalas", and some heart shaped tiles I call my tangled hearts - most of which I handed out as valentines. I tried black paper with every gel pen imaginable, and other colored paper.  Here's what I recommend:  The Sakura Gelly roll metallics and newer "Moonlight" pens worked very well on the black paper, and the cheapo imitation ones worked ok. On white, off-white, and colored paper the Micron (Sakura Pigment) pens are worth the extra cost beacuse they seem to last endlessly, have the darkest pigment, and various tip sizes to choose from. I like the 01 for normal linework, 03 for stronger lines and larger fill-in areas, and the 005 superfine for delicate linework.  For shading, the darker pencils like the #6B (any brand) or the ebony pencil work ok, but graphite shines in certain light angles. I like charcoal pencils much better, and I didn't prefer one over another in terms of soft, medium, or hard. For shading, both need a "tortillon"  -- a fancy word for pencil-shmearer. I recommend spraying with a fixative when finished because that after a while of handling they get more smeared and gray all over.  Another good shading option is the gray alcohol ink marker. My favorite is 30 or 40% cool gray. (The warm gray is too tan for my taste.) The marker makes a defined shadow line rather than a gradually fading one, so for that effect one would need to use a succession of diminishing values of gray -way too much work!  For some of the designs I like the marker, but overall I favor the charcoal pencil. Next time I will share what I discovered when substrate (i.e. paper) shopping. Meanwhile, please enjoy my work, and leave comments! Thank you for visiting.

My first tangle from the video in the kit.

Shaded with the 40% cool gray marker.

"Zendala" - using brown Micron pen size 01

A Zendala -- I made up the peackock feather pattern

Can you believe how complex this looks for how easy and simple the Zentangle method is?

I learned 2 harder patterns and adore them both: "knyt" and "prestwood"

I made up the pyramid design, then found a similar one on the website.

I signed up for the newsletter which featured the new "aquafleur" tangle, which I immediately had to do!