Two New Classes at the Artsplace in Fremont, MI. on Dec. 5

On Saturday, Dec. 5,    I will offer two classes at the Artsplace in Fremont, MI.
These are the last two classes I will offer in Michigan until the spring, 2016.

Basics Class, no prerequisite, 9:30 - 12.

Renaissance Tiles, prerequisite: the Basics class.   12:30 -3 .

For more information and to register,  click here.

Intermediate Class at the Artsplace in Fremont, MI. Sat. Oct. 24.

Intermediate Zentangle® Workshop 

Saturday 9:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

October 24

Prerequisite: Basics Workshop.

Class Fee: $80 ($75 Members) Ages 14-Adult

Fee includes all materials except Zentangle Basics kit bag.

This workshop develops your tangling skills of shading,
creating strings, and stepouts for patterns. The class
will explore creating tangoes (a pattern within a pattern),
tangleations (variations of a pattern), and creating
Zentangle inspired art. By the end of class, each
student will have started one large piece on an Opus tile
(10.5” by 10.5” Zentangle tile). Bring your Zentangle kit
bag, an artist’s journal which is at least 5” X 8” and with
paper of at least 80 lb. wt. Bring a lunch.

Click here for details to register.

Classes in Grand Rapids in October

There will be two workshops in Grand Rapids on Sat. Oct. 31.

Zentangle Basics: 9 – 11:30  a.m. 

The Basics class has been canceled. 

 Zentangle Inspired Art: Exploring Opus™  1 -  4 p.m.  $40*, including one Opus tile (a $5 value)

 Prerequsite is the Basics Class.  Bring your own pens, Zentangle pencil and totillon (smudger), your sketchbook and a list of your favorite tangles.

             If you have been longing to go large, this class is for you.  In this class you will develop your creativity, learn design principles and to modify existing patterns while taking your tangling to a new level.  You will work on an Opus™ tile (10.5" by 10.5").  As always, you will create one stroke at a time.

                    *$5 discount if registered by Weds., Oct.28.

To register for either or both classes,  email me at gtangles@gmail.com.          

    

Three New Classes at Artsplace in Fremont, MI

Saturday, Sept. 24
Basics Class  9 - 11:30 a.m.   and Beyond Basics 12:30 - 3 p.m.

And a brand new class:  Intermediate Zentangle  

on  Saturday, Oct. 24,  9 - 2:30.  .

 For details and to register, click here,

Opus 1

I have been playing with the larger Opus Zentangle® tiles.  Just finished two this week and want to share.

By way of background, when I first started to tangle, I usually tangled on large sheets, as big as 17" by 20", pieces of Bristol vellum. Here is an example of one of my early ZIAs, before i went for certification to teach.  I was tangling up to six hours a day using Sharpie Ultra Fine markers or Pilot Precise V5 Extra fine pens.

I haven't done many big pieces lately until I started on the Opus tiles (10.5 by 10.5").  They feel quite different from the big Bristol pieces, in part because of the luscious Fabriano paper, and in part because they are square.  Here are my first three.    

Too bad I cannot get them to appear square, which they are.

A ZIA from a consignment store paper reprint of a painting.

 A student told me today about about work she had seen of someone tangling their own paintings.

This reminded me of a piece I did a couple of years ago on a paper print that I bought at consignment shop.  I loved the artist's flowers and it was a challenge to tangle each part staying in the moment and without planning.  But it was a wonderful experience.  And I like the outcome.

I tangled with the standare 01 Micron and shaded with Fabrico marker, #181 Cool Grey.

In addition, it came with a lovely pale pink frame, which I fail to show here.

Class mosaics from the first half of a Basics Class last week

Don't you just love the differences between tiles in the same mosaic?  Amazing pieces of work!!!  Watch for more later this week.