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Inktober 2017

03 Friday Nov 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, Zentangle Inspired Art

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100 Mandalas, illustration, Inktober, Mandala, Torus Mandala, Zentangle, Zentangle Inktober, Zentangle Inspired Art

completed ink

Mandala 53 of 100. This mandala contains 31 different Zentangle® patterns, one for each day of October. I was interrupted by health issues, but have now completed the ink portion of the mandala. Inktober was created by Jake Parker

“I created Inktober in 2009 as a challenge to improve my inking skills and develop positive drawing habits. It has since grown into a worldwide endeavor with thousands of artists taking on the challenge every year.”

Laura Harms, from IamtheDiva, provides the list of tangle patterns that are suggested for the Zentangle® version of Inktober. She also provides videos of how to draw each pattern. Mine isn’t done yet. I plan to do some shading and probably add color, too. I greatly enjoyed this process and may do this again.

 

So Much Gratitude

04 Monday Sep 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art on Exhibit, Gratitude Journal, Zentangle Inspired Art

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Art, Art Journal, Art Journal Every Day, Gratitude, Journal, Patterns, sun, Zentangle, Zentangle Inspired Art, ZIA

eclipse mandala in progress

fibonacci

black and white beginnings
black and white eclipse mandala auditions

You may see signs of some of my big art pieces in progress over the last few weeks of gratitude journaling, especially the Eclipse Mandala. I’m still learning Zentangle patterns in white on black. They behave and get shaded/highlighted differently. It took quite a bit of practice and auditioning to get to the finished mandala collage. I think I will include it here again because I’m enjoying looking at it and I hope you are, too!

eclipse mandala

I think I am going to do some drawing on top of the gold, but I’m not quite sure what the plan is yet.

Eclipse Mandala

01 Friday Sep 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, Art on Exhibit

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100 Mandalas, acrylic paint, Art Exhibit, black paper, eclipse, Mandala, sun, White ink, White ink on Black paper, Zentangle, Zentangle Inspired Art, Zentangle Method, ZIA

eclipse mandala

This piece is inspired by the Diamond Ring phenomenon from the eclipse. I am submitting it for a show this fall at Alhamra Art Center. This is a repurposed canvas from a painting party fundraiser. Here is my original version of the painting – it was a bunch of balloons and I made them more like flowers.

painting party picture

And I added some collage and some Zentangles. I’m not sure it is 100% done. I kind of want to tangle on the gold, but once it is on the canvas it is tricky. Maybe tomorrow I will post the development of the Zentangle Inspired Art – Mandala 50 of 100!

Draw the Circle Wide Mandala

25 Friday Aug 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, Art on Exhibit, Zentangle Inspired Art

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100 Mandalas, acrylic paint, Art, Certified Zentangle Teacher, collage, Mandala, Zentangle, Zentangle Inspired Art, ZIA

Big Mandala 47 done take 2

This is the large (for me 30″x30″) mandala that I have been working on all summer. There are a lot of layers and I took some pictures of the process. I really became fascinated with layers of acrylic glazes and am making a partner piece to this one that is more focused on that technique.

draw the circle wide mandala in progress

I started with collaged dictionary and other book pages onto the gessoboard. I also included some stamps. Then I did about a week’s worth of journaling on the board and stenciled a quote from a song that we sang at the Unitarian Fellowship I attend. This song has really resonated with me and really captures some of what I feel about my mandalas.

draw the circle wide mandala iris layer

I already shared this layer with you earlier in the summer.

Draw the circle wide collage mandala layer 1

At this point what I was envisioning for the mandala started to change. There were a number of intermediate layers that didn’t really work for me. So I got started on the mandala pieces. I’m still learning about layers in collage and what kinds of paint play well together. I used some gouache paint and that left wrinkles in some of the pieces, but I decided to incorporate some Wabi Sabi into the finished piece. I may add some more gold accents, but I think it is done.

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I played with a lot of different papers including navigation maps, dictionary pages, pages from a Chinese Poetry textbook and tissue. I continue to love how tissue paper works in collage. I used an old Vogue pattern for one of the pieces and decorated it with a Zentangle® pattern. Each of the pieces had some Zentangle® patterns.Big Mandala 47

I really toyed with leaving the layers show through in this point in the mandala but it was too much of a contrast from the other parts.

Big Mandala 47 done

Here is the fully assembled piece, but it needed some more Wabi Sabi so I added gold paint in a few of the joints. You can see it in these close up pictures of the details.

big big mandala 47 detail 2

big mandala 47 detail

The finished piece will be on exhibit at the Alhamra Art Center in September and October and is available for purchase through the Center. This is mandala 47 of 100. To join the 100 Mandala challenge check out Kathryn Costa’s website.

Diva Challenge: Guest Blog Post

21 Monday Aug 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Diva Challenge

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Certified Zentangle Teacher, Diva Challenge, Plates, Zentangle, Zentangle Inspired Art, Zentangle Plates, Zentangle Tile

I did a guest blog post for the Diva Challenge this week!

plates mosaic

http://www.iamthedivaczt.com/2017/08/weekly-challenge-330-guest-blogger.html

 

Big Mandala Update

01 Tuesday Aug 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art

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100 Mandalas, acrylic glazes, acrylic paint, Art, collage, Mandala, Zentangle, Zentangle Inspired Art, ZIA

This summer I have been working on a large (30″ x 30″) mandala collage. You have already seen the background layers of the gessoboard. Here is a sample of the Zentangle patterned mandala pieces that I have been working on all summer. By the end of this week I hope to unveil the whole thing in a blog post of my process and the product. This is mandala 47 of 100.

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Zendala 1: Mandala Meetup class coming this Fall!

01 Saturday Jul 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, Zentangle Method Class

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art class, Artist Trading Cards, Certified Zentangle Teacher, Drawing Class, Zentangle, Zentangle Class, Zentangle Inspired Art, Zentangle Method, ZIA

Zendala 1

Yesterday I met with the board of the Morris County Art Association and discussed class offerings. I will have 3 opportunities to teach, mostly Zentangle®, but I will have a one day workshop on making artist trading cards.

I will be offering an in depth 8-week Zentangle® Method class for each session. The first session runs from September 14 – November 2 and will be on Thursdays from 4:30-7pm.

What is the Mandala Meet Up?  The third Saturday of each month from 2-5 pm we will meet at the Art Association Studio to create Zendalas®. Zentangle® patterns are used to provide a drawing meditation to fill the circle with beauty. All materials will be provided. Materials fee $5. Prices and full descriptions of the classes will be available on the home page of my blog. While I’m going to continue my 100 mandalas challenge, I’m going to try for 100 Zendalas® also. I’m looking forward to helping people create these little works of art.

Artist Trading Cards

12 Monday Jun 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, Zentangle Method Class

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Artist Trading Cards, ATC, collage, Zentangle, Zentangle Class, Zentangle Inspired Art

artist trading cards

I made up a batch of Artist Trading Cards to share during my workshop at the Morristown and Morris Township Library tomorrow. I made a whole cereal box of collaged cardboard, cut them to size, and did some Zentangle® magic on them. Come see me there from 7-9 this Tuesday, June 13th!

NYBC: Gratitude Journal

09 Friday Jun 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Gratitude Journal

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Art Journal, Art Journal Every Day, bird, graitiude journal, Gratitude, iris, mixed-media, Zentangle, Zentangle Inspired Art

NYBG and Chihuly

Here is my gratitude journal for the past week or so. I have been doing a lot of journaling on the large mandala (with the iris) that I have been working on, so I haven’t been doing quite so much work in my journal. The printed iris photograph on these pages was the inspiration and all of my iris were a gift from my father-in-law. It was such a happy coincidence that this week we also went to one of his favorite  places in the world, the New York Botanical Garden. It was magical. There is an exhibit of Dale Chihuly’s glass work and I will be doing a post featuring that later today on my other blog.

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