Happy New Year

My best wishes for all of you to have the best, happy, healthy, safe New Year!

Zentangle® Swap

I joined my first Zentangle® trade on my Yahoo group. It is to be a sunrise. What do you think?

Another Class

Today, I took my second Zentangle class, at The Occasional Artist in Glendale, AZ, taught by Jane Eileen, CZT. We made Zentangles to put on cards. It was an unusual day in AZ with cold and rain. How much fun it was to meet new people and play for a few hours:

CZT Class and Artist Trading Cards, ATC

I signed up for the Certified Zentangle Teacher, CZT, class in June. I will retire at the end of May and then go to the training the following month. Could anything work out more perfectly? I read, on my Yahoo group, that people trade ATC's there. So, now I need to do some of those to take. Here are my first two:

Gift Cards

Holidays are on the way and gifts for the boss are a necessity. This year, I am making him note cards with envelopes so he can do his thank you notes in style. I hunted down wooden letters at Michael's and these are what I came up with.

The first is in the round:

This one has some spray paint, stamps and embossing around the letters:

This one is spray paint with baby wipe blending and the tangles with colored pen:

On its side:

Water color wash and colored pens:

And my favorite, a stacker. Stackers are a design plan from Cindy of the RainbowElephant.com

Hope he likes them. If not, his wife has the same initials LOL!!

Chinese Dragon

Sometimes you just have to follow your instincts:

This one uses the Inktense colored pencils along with colored pens, regular colored pencils and plain ol' pencil for shading.

Zentangle Class

I took a class yesterday at The Occasional Artist in Glendale, AZ, with Jane Eileen. It was a lot of fun. Had to go through the mandatory stuff about Zentangles® and the info on Maria and Rick, but then we got to play. It was different than doing them at home. I actually slowed down and paid attention to what I was doing. Here are a few of the things I did in the class:

 Was actually given two "real" tiles but chose not to use them. I don't know why I just haven't even tried them even though I have purchased some of the white and black ones from Zentangle.com I guess I think I have to be doing a lot better with these before I use my precious tiles :)