Ensemble C-05

Bette Abdu, CZT [email] coordinated a sharing among CZTs using one of our Ensemble Sets. Bette wrote:

There were two groups who participated in the CZT Ensemble exchange I hosted in November/December.

In Group 1-9 people completed all 9 tiles of Ensemble set L-05

In Group 2-9 people completed all 9 tiles of Ensemble set C-05

All tiles were sent to me and each participant received back an ensemble that included their own #1 tile and one tile each from the other participants in their group. The results were outstanding! I'm sure more of my students will become enthralled with the Ensemble concept when they see my completed Ensembles.
All sets sent to me were photographed before swapping out the tiles. All swapped out sets were photographed too.

Mary Ann Scheblein-Dawsonhas organized these photos and uploaded them. Thank you Mary Ann!

Hope you'll enjoy our eye candy.

Here are images of Group Two's C-05 Ensemble set.

This gives you a good idea of CZTs' passion and creativity. It also is a good reminder of an Ensemble's value as a group Zentangle activity.

Learn more about Ensembles here.

See our Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT) list here.

Thank you Bette, Mary Ann, and all who participated!

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Eighth

I came in from an errand yesterday just as Maria was finishing this Zentangle.

"Do you see them?" she asked.

I marvelled at her tangleations of hollibaugh. She had transformed her hollibaugh "boards" into striped ribbons that wrapped around her strings. I went on and on about how woven (and tangled) it looked even though everything was, in Zentangle fashion, "drawn behind."

"Do you see the hearts?" she asked.

Wow! What had been invisible before was now obvious. I had been so entranced by Maria's delicious tangling of the negative space between the hearts that I totally missed their underlying structure. And these were hearts that I missed.

Is it that easy to become so entranced in my day-to-day beautiful and demanding intricacies that I can miss the very thing that holds us all together?

"Wow . . . hearts!" I said.

This Zentangle was created for Laura Harms' eighth weekly challenge. Maria combined heart strings with the simplicity of a single tangle hollibaugh and breath . . . always breath.

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Ladyquin

RE sent us this email:

Hi Rick and Maria,

This is one of four ladyquins that I have created. This particular one I've sent you was one that I used Zentangles on. All of the ladyquins I have worked on are in honor of people who have had breast cancer. I hope you like them.

Powerful images. We enjoyed your development of tangleations, particularly on the lower back.

Thank you for sending that.

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Home, Sweet Home

We're back from the CHA (Craft and Hobby Association) show in Los Angeles. We met so many wonderful people have so many wonderful Zentangle stories to share. And as wonderful a time as we had, it feels great to be home.

This morning I went upstairs to turn up the heat in our studio. I looked out a window in the early morning light and saw these amazing frost creations. I forgot about everything else and grabbed my camera before the light changed and took some pictures.

Yesterday it was cake decorating with betweed and other tangles. Today its window decorating with verdigogh.

"They" even put in some berries! 

What a beautifully tangled world.

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A Cake

A Zentangle-inspired cake, that is!

When we were at the Craft & Hobby Association show in Los Angeles, Tina Christensen of Cafe Crop showed us this picture of a cake her mother made.

Her mom made it to celebrate her daughter's store's first anniversary.

Nice tangle recipe!

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Breathe - #7

This week's challenge from Laura Harms is "Breathe."

Maria created this before breakfast today.

She kept waking up last night wondering what she was going to do. She ended up doing one side of these hollibaugh-esque tendrils on an inhale, and the other side on an exhale. Then, just to un-serious it up a bit, added some bronx cheers, which, as I pointed out, are themselves a form of an exhale! :-)

Thanks again, Laura, for a great challenge series.

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Betweed Braid

Maria created this Zentangle at breakfast. Notice when betweed is confined to a narrow space it takes on a braided appearance.

To review this versatile tangle, read this newsletter and watch this YouTube.

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