Dear Rick and Maria,Wow! Thank you so much for sending that, LH. It's awesome!
While enjoying the December, 2009 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors, I saw Sandy Steen Bartholomew’s article: Add Patterns to Journals with Zentangles and Transfers. I visited your website and was immediately “hooked”. I shared that with my niece and we have both been obsessed ever since.
When our local newspaper acquired newspaper stands from another city and needed them repainted, they offered them to artists to “do their own thing,” we knew exactly what we would do….Zentangle!
It took two of us 33 days and 100 hours to Zentangle all four sides and the top of the newspaper stand. 100 hours of pure pleasure. We still can’t decide which is more fulfilling: drawing every line or seeing the finished product.
“Our” newspaper stand now lives in front of the Golden Waffle restaurant on Main St in Chico, California.
Thank you for sharing Zentangle with the world. LH
You may have heard about all the flooding in Australia. The Queensland Premier has a flood aid appeal and a group of blogging quilters have had an online auction - very successful as they have raised over $45,000. I auctioned three items - two related to Zentangle - the Zentangle Kit raised $120 and one of my Zentangle drawings raised $225, one of the unsuccessful bidders was quite keen so I offered to do another drawing for her at her last bid of $200 - she was very pleased to accept the offer...so Zentangle related items raised $545 in total from my little auction ... I thought I would share that with you, it reinforces my thought that Zentangle really does go everywhere and affects everybody... hugs
Hello Maria!
Your beautiful bee came my way yesterday! I LOVE it!! I love everything about it, even the matting is beautiful. I must get to work on your piece of artwork.
I have to tell you, even though I haven't spent as much time as I would have liked with my Zentangles, it has already changed my sketching - my sense of composition of the whole is better.
I am glad you like her. I thought she was kinda cute.
Favor: would you be willing to write a sentence or two about how Zentangle has affected your life and art? I love what you said, especially since you are a professional artist......and can we publish it along with a few of your paintings and a link to all your sites..... we'd love to feature it on our blog. If you rather not, no problem.
Thanks. Best, Maria
oh of course! I love testimonials... : )
I'm not much of a writer though, here goes:
Zentangling has changed my sketching for the better - my sense of composition of the whole is improved. It increases my sensitivity to contrasts in a composition, and gives me tools to affect it. The idea of balance of light and dark for a composition for example, I never want to have exactly 1/2 dark and 1/2 light, more like thirds - 2/3, 1/3 light/dark or vice versa. And also the idea of things flowing into and out of other things, maybe a sense of direction in a sketch.
ooooh I don't know if that makes sense - so please paraphrase, add or subtract (or ask me to clarify) it to suit your needs!!
cathleen
I love the way you put it.....especially the part about 1/3 2/3 light and dark. I use sacred geometry and phi ratios in a lot of my pieces, but using that ratio for light and dark is brilliant. Thanks so much. I'll have to try it. I am basically self-taught, so everyone is my teacher. I love it that way. Can we send people to your website and blog? Thanks so much. M
Hi Maria,
Glad you are happy with the testimonial! It came from my heart!
Yes, please do send people my way! Thank you!
Cathleen
Hi Rick and Maria.
I wanted to let you know that I have received your letter about the upcoming seminar. I am really looking forward to it! My husband was so impressed when he saw the envelope in the mail. It was kind of hard to actually open the envelope - I didn't want to rip it!
I am planning on flying in on Monday and spending a day with my sister.
I also wanted to show you the Zentagle I did yesterday while my husband was excitedly watching the football game. He was really excited that I could do that. By the way - He wanted me to offer our condolences on the Patriots loss.
See you soon,
Sue
When I saw Laura's challenge, I smiled. Everyone knows I love curvy, voluptuous lines. I like to think of my Zentangles as "Rubenesque." This just feeds my soul.Thanks so much, Laura. Your personal touch and enthusiasm are inspiring some awesome Zentangle creations.
As for the word, "Orbs" . . . we wanted a word that described this shape's essence (rather than "circle") . . . so that everyone would understand this shape's beauty is not its circular perfection, but its organic, full, nourishing, yielding and luscious roundness. Mmmm.
My kitchen really needs a remodel, but it will take some time before we get there. So, I decided to at least put a bright spot in one place while I wait. Here are some pictures of the metal shelves in my lazysusan cabinet – all tangled. I used a Sharpie, which glided over the metal like butter on a hot plate. It was a lot of fun!
This challenge is by far the most difficult challenge for me yet. It is not my habit to listen to music when I do my Zentangles. And to listen to a genre of music that I am not familiar with was even more of a challenge.Rick adds,
In this first Zentangle, I wanted to represent the vibration of a string (not necessarily harmonious to me),
. . . and in this second one, a star overwhelmed by its surroundings.
I was impressed by this music's impact. While it's obvious Maria created these, they have a different character. In that second Zentangle, while that star is indeed overwhelmed in size by its surroundings, it nevertheless defines a sort of "resonant space" within which the rest of that tile vibrates.
These pictures were taken just as this morning sun's first rays entered at a low angle. If you look closely, you will see how this paper can slightly deboss under pen pressure for a nice 3D effect.
Fun stuff!
I would just like to thank you for a wonderful product, the tangles take me back to when I was a teen, [ . . . ] and now, I find myself going back to black and white work. These tangles help me to forget my worries for a while.
Thank you Maria and Rick
Love
C.
P.S. The attached is a 4 tile Zentangle I did this morning.
Hi Rick and Maria,
I thought you would enjoy this: several months ago, my youngest grandson (aged 10) and I were tangling at his kitchen table. All of a sudden he said to me, "Grandma Peggy, if you ever want to make something for me...like for Christmas, maybe....you could draw a sword and fill it all full of your little stuff." (How's that for a description of Zentangle from a 10-year old's perspective?)
So, being a grandmother that can certainly take a hint, I made the attached for him for Christmas. He liked it and he even remembered telling me about it.
Happy New Year to you and the whole family!
Hi Rick and Maria,
We live in California, and had a Zentangle party before Christmas for the "unveiling" of our four-tile Zentangle Ensemble. A few months before we'd made a circle and a few simple lines on an 8" x 8" piece of cardstock, cut it into four squares, then passed them out to four participants to tangle secretly. We all got to see them together finally at the party. The foods & clothing aspired to be "Zentangly".
Black and white bean soups, poured simultaneously into one bowl, then "marbleized" with a chopstick or knife.
We also had a plate of white mozarella balls and black olives, plus other healthy crudites, and bruschetta.
We decorated cupcakes for dessert.
Clothing and tableware was "Zentangly."
The four tiles:
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