Zentangle

Variations on one Zentangle

August 18, 2011

Zentangles always get their own way. I start with an idea, then before I know it, the drawing has raced off in a different direction. This one was going to be a square within a square, but it just didn’t cooperate: Not sure if I wanted to add more, I scanned the image so I [...]

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Self-similar images

August 16, 2011

So now I’m on a roll of making self-similar images. Not true fractals, where you can zoom in indefinitely, but fractal-like. Pseudo fractals. As before, I started with a custom shape in Photoshop. The starting image was a 5 x 5 grid of circle-ish shapes. I inset it into itself twice, then used that as [...]

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Mandala, Fractal, Zentangle…Zendactala?

August 14, 2011

On a day when there isn’t enough time to draw a Zentangle, I can still doodle in Photoshop! The fake fractals of earlier this week got me thinking about other ways to draw self-similar images. This one started from a custom shape in Photoshop, using copies of the whole shape to fill the holes within [...]

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Zentangle frame

May 11, 2011

This frame started as a Zentangle on a week when it seems like Spring has finally arrived. Working with it in Photoshop, I stumbled upon this configuration that makes a neat frame. Now I’d like to work in a rectangular format with an open corner to create a frame with a bigger opening in the [...]

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Mehndi…a Zentangle by another name?

May 8, 2011

I got a mehndi design today at the Plymouth Green Street Fair. The process was fascinating. The artist worked with a pen that looked more like a cake-decorating device. As the henna is applied, it looks like chocolate and is in a paste form that puffs up on your skin. It dries in about 15 [...]

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Using Symmetry with Zentangle® Images

December 13, 2010

I started this Zentangle® drawing on a plane on the way to Phoenix in November. When I finished a few weeks later at home, I was ambivalent. There were elements I really liked, even whole sections I really liked, but I wasn’t sure I liked it as a whole composition. Pretty darn busy. So, I [...]

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Zen-Quilt Center Complete!

November 17, 2010

It’s so cool to see something I drew turn into a real quilt. Here is the central element of my latest quilt in one piece. The white block in the middle is a temporary part of the construction…I will eventually applique a teal piece over the top, sort of a rounded diamond. My inspiration for [...]

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A Zentangle® inspired quilt

November 5, 2010

I’m working on a new quilt idea that sprang from one of my Zentangle sketches. The actual Zentangle® drawing is incomplete and somewhat flawed (I filled in an area with black that I intended to be patterned.) Had I stayed committed to the Zentangle® drawing, I would have somehow incorporated that error into the finished [...]

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One Very Weird Drawing

October 27, 2010

Okay, so maybe that title is a little judgmental…but that was my reaction when I finished this drawing last night…”It’s weird, but I like it.” I wanted to try drawing something that wasn’t so filled in, something that was more organic and plant-like. I like to look at other people’s Zentangle® drawings, and I know [...]

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Shoes…a Zentangle® experiment with stencils

October 26, 2010

I started this drawing by tracing around a few shoe stencils I had on hand. The color was added in Photoshop. I erased my pencil lines around the shoes, but I think it would have an entirely different look if I outlined the shoes in black. Probably about 6 hours…

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