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.
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| My first tangle from the video in the kit. |
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| Shaded with the 40% cool gray marker. |
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| "Zendala" - using brown Micron pen size 01 |
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| A Zendala -- I made up the peackock feather pattern |
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| Can you believe how complex this looks for how easy and simple the Zentangle method is? |
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| I learned 2 harder patterns and adore them both: "knyt" and "prestwood" |
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| I made up the pyramid design, then found a similar one on the website. |
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| I signed up for the newsletter which featured the new "aquafleur" tangle, which I immediately had to do! |
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