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Zendala 2

02 Sunday Jul 2017

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Zendala 2

The Zentangle® tiles that have been created for drawing mandalas are called Zendalas®. They are die cut from lovely hot press watercolor paper and take the addition of shading and color so beautifully. The key to improving any skill is repetition and I have been participating in a 100 Mandalas challenge for a few years. These small Zendalas® are really rejuvenating my mandala drawing practice! I’m so excited to kick off my 100 Zendalas® challenge and I hope you will join, too!

Zendala 1: Mandala Meetup class coming this Fall!

01 Saturday Jul 2017

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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.

Gratitude Journal: Zentangle Explorations

21 Wednesday Jun 2017

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This page layout is a little bit of a mess, but that is because I’ve been doing so much work. I made a batch of Artist Trading Cards and included some leftover bits from that on the left hand page. These include my new business card stickers from MOO that I put on the reverse side. People love these as my business cards. It is like they get there own little piece of art. I love the stickers and I hope you do too!

The right page has a prototype of one of the pieces of my Draw the Circle Wide mandala that is under construction. I made a photocopy and painted it with gouache to test how it would interact with acrylic matte medium. No smearing or bleeding of colors and the colors turned out nice and clear. I think this is how I’m going to paint these sections. Part of the development for that mandala was finding just the right purple. I also used this layout to document all my new Prismacolor colored pencils.

finding purple

It turned out that I needed to use magenta to get any purples that I liked. What was interesting was experimenting with Payne’s Gray as a blue. It also demonstrated that I have a lot of shades of blue and not as many reds. I may explore that further. Or maybe there just isn’t the same variety of hues. Do any of you know about that? In any case I used Ultramarine blue and magenta to make the purple for my iris.

Another feature of the right page of the gratitude journal entry was my playing with reticula in a mandala. What is a reticula?

Reticula play

It is a pattern that you put in a grid. Changing the orientation creates different  meta-patterns. This was one of the really wonderful things we explored at the Certified Zentangle Teacher seminar I went to in April. There is a lot of gratitude for my husband in these pages, too. I haven’t used one of my stencils for him in a while. Maybe this week. What are you grateful for? What is new in your art practice?

I hope you have a beautiful day.

NYBC: Gratitude Journal

09 Friday Jun 2017

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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.

Diva Challenge 319: Beads of Courage

06 Tuesday Jun 2017

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dc 319 Beads of Courage

Here is my tile for the Diva’s Challenge this week. I used the tangle patterns Onamato, Snail, and Satsu. They represent beads for the Diva’s son who lives with chronic health problems. Here is her definition of Beads of Courage. She does this challenge once a year in conjunction with a fundraising Color Fun Run she organizes.

Beads of Courage is an arts in medicine program that helps kids with chronic or life threatening illness tell the story of their medical journey.  Each bead represents something different.  A different procedure or appointment, or special circumstance.  For example, when seeing a doctor or getting a poke instead of getting a sticker when they leave, they are given a glass bead for each thing.  (blue for doctor, black for poke… some other beads are yellow=night in the hospital, pink=respiratory support, magenta=trip to emergent care, teal=tube insertion or removal, rainbow=therapy; physical, speech, occupational, respiratory) and every child’s string is different and unique to their story.

Art is so therapeutic for me in so many ways. Laura’s story is one of the great examples of the power of art. She and her son are surrounded by love and support. That is why I used a heart as the string for my tile. I kept a nice peaceful, clear space in the middle for healing and surrounded it with beads for the courage of Laura and her son.

I’m also including a picture of my cat because he is hilarious. Here he is curled up with the book my husband is reading. I’m not sure anyone else could sleep on Guns, Germs, and Steel, but sometimes when I have insomnia my husband will read it to me to help me fall asleep.bo on book

New Coloring Page! Diva Challenge 318

02 Friday Jun 2017

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I have been wanting to create some bookmarks on a coloring page for a while and I really had fun with these. They worked well with the Diva Challenge and I had a lot of fun with my new set of 72 Prismacolor Colored Pencils. The only way to get this coloring page is to order one of my other pages from Etsy. I will send you this page as a thank you gift.

The orange and blue bookmark is a diptych – the 2 halves mirror each other. This was an interesting challenge and fun to do. Check out other tangled diptychs at the Diva’s Blog.

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Blooming Pink and Orange

24 Wednesday May 2017

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I have been keeping a gratitude journal for years. About 4 years ago I started doing it in art journal format using altered books. My first blog started as a record of that journal and has blossomed into so much more. I will continue to maintain both blogs for as long as possible.

This is my first time using a mixed media sketchbook as my gratitude journal and I’m really enjoying it. I have been exploring acrylic paints and that exploration is reflected in my journal. I also us it to experiment with different media. For example, the flowers in the upper left page were experiments for my Mandala 41 with Rhododendron painting. I didn’t like how they looked with the mandala but I really enjoy them in my art journal and I’m going to use my “plaid” paper in a large mandala I’m currently working on, I think. Stay tuned…

I’m continuing to explore the Zentangle® Method. The tangled squares use a pattern called Paradox that I’m really enjoying. The text and images document what has happened with whom in the last few days and weeks. I had a really long conversation with a dear friend who is fighting cancer. I used a new to me pen to start her drawing and it didn’t work quite how I wanted, but I’m so grateful to include her in my journal.

This week I have been making lots of cards for various people. One of my sons has a birthday coming up and I have a few other friends who are also fighting cancer. All of my cards have had something that uses Zentangle® tiles or inspired art.

Peace.

Zentangle® Method Art Classes

12 Friday May 2017

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Mandala Meet Up is offered through the Morris County Art Association, 10 Catherine Lane. Morristown, NJ The class is the third Saturday of each month 2:00pm – 5:00pm (Nov 18, Jan 20, Feb 17, March 17). We will make small mandalas using the Zentangle Method of drawing. Zendalas are small mandalas made on lovely die cut circles of watercolor paper. Zentangle patterns are used to provide a drawing meditation to fill the circle with beauty. All materials will be provided. $40/$35 members per session. Materials fee $5. Email mcaastudio@optimum.net to register.

Individual/ Small Group Private Classes in my home or a public location arranged as agreed. New materials and 2.5 hours of instruction included in class price. Introduction to the Zentangle Method $35/person/session. Intermediate Zentangle Skills $35/person/session. Advanced Zentangle Skills (includes Zendala instruction) $40/person/session.

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Winter Class January 10th-March 10 at the Morris County Art Association: 8 sessions (3 hours/session) Thursdays 4-7 pm, $245/225 members.  In depth exploration of increasingly complex Zentangle® patterns and techniques. Create your own Zentangle® reference book in a lovely Pre-Strung Journal. In depth exploration of increasingly complex Zentangle® patterns and techniques. This class will help you develop a Zentangle® practice and provide the tools for creating a beautiful Zentangle® Journal. $50 materials fee. Email mcaastudio@optimum.net to register.

Art Party  The art party would include each person getting a Zentangle® gift bag that would include a pen, pencil, tortillion, and 5 Zentangle® tiles. These are either the basic 3.5 inch Zentangle® tiles or the Apprentice® (bigger) tiles depending on the age of the participants. The gift bag would be for them to take home. I would provide 2.5 hours of instruction and we would decorate 2 additional tiles during the party. One set of the tiles could be assembled into a mosaic with an image that would be meaningful to the guest of honor. The participants would not know about the overall design until we put it together in the mosaic. This would be $35/person. I would recommend this package for adults and children over age 9.

Complete the contact form to register or ask questions about these classes.

 

Jeanette Clawson is a local artist and a Certified Zentangle® Teacher. Her Zentangle® Inspired Art is available in galleries in New Jersey, on Etsy, and FineArtAmerica. These classes will introduce you to the high quality tools and easy methods of creating small pieces of art. This is a  fun moving meditation for absolute beginners and established artists alike.

“The Zentangle® Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. Almost anyone can use it to create beautiful images. It increases focus and creativity, provides artistic satisfaction along with an increased sense of personal well being. The Zentangle® Method is enjoyed all over this world across a wide range of skills, interests and ages.”

“We believe that life is an art form and that our Zentangle Method is an elegant metaphor for deliberate artistry in life.”  Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas

From https://www.zentangle.com/zentangle-method

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