Journaling Washi Tape and Zentangle Inspired Art

I had such a good time and liked the results of tangleing over the scraped on paint in my journal (see previous post) that I decided to do another page.
Sooooo - I chose a page with green acrylic paint wiped off on it and drew a few pears.

Then I tangled inside the pears.  I was going to tangle a border but thought it might be too heavy and distract from the pears.  Then I remembered my latest and one of my favorite washi tapes of pears.  Perfect!  So I used that and a couple other green washi tapes to make a border.
Here's the finished journal page:

You can learn all about Zentangle and the creative people that started this trend by checking out their website Zentangle.com by clicking HERE.

Thanks for taking a look!
Hope you have a creative weekend!

Journaling Zentangle Inspired Art

I have a Canson Mixed Media Journal 

 that I've been using to use up leftover paint, or ink on stencils.  The cover looks like this:

And the pages I used to use up leftover paint and sprays look like this:

 SEI Tumble dye on a Crafters Workshop stencil.  You get the reversed image when using up the ink left on the stencil.

 Acrylic Paint.

 

Here's a tangle I started on a page with some acrylic paint wiped off on it.

This is the completed tangle.  Designs were inspired by patterns and gallery examples in the following Zentange Books.

Joy of Zentangle  - you can check it out on Amazon by clicking HERE.

This book has 101 patterns to learn and use.  Plus lot's of great Zentangle examples to inspire.

and

Zentangle Untangled - you can check it out by clicking HERE.

This book has about 12 Zentangle patterns but lot's of info and great examples to inspire.

You can learn all about Zentangle and the creative people that started this trend by checking out their website Zentangle.com by clicking HERE.

It's alot of fun and very relaxing if you let yourself give it a try and truly enjoy.  You don't have to be creative - just need the desire to relax and let it stop all the thoughts flying around in your head!

Works for me!

Enjoy!

Thanks for taking a look.

Wisdom Journal Page - more on Inktense pencils

Playing more with Inktense pencils by Derwent  I made this background page.                                     

                                                                                                                                                                       

I started by painting a watercolor paper page in my journal with gesso. Then colored with the Inktense pencils and applied water with a brush and a squirt bottle and let someof the color drip down the page.  I then used some sequin waste as a stencil to make the dots (using pigment ink pads).  And stamped a owl a couple times that I used on one of the collage elements (see journal page below).

Here's that wise 'ol owl in the collaged page, stamped on ledger paper, which 

is used alot in this journal, sort of a recurring theme (the inner edge of each page is trimmed with it also).  The stamp is part of a great set that includes an awesome Raven.  It's available from Stampin' Up and I order through my friend Laurel's website here.  I stamped the

image of the man on a piece of decorative scrapbook paper, tore the edges and glued it down. (he looks Chinese, and wasn't Confucious Chinese and full of wisdom?)  I edged the paper pieces with coordinating inks to what I used on the background. 

I had started this page because I had been playing around with Zentangle letters and had doodled the word "wisdom".  I colored the background of the word with a deep indigo Inktense pencil after I had glued it down as the white background stood out too much.  I used a couple skeleton leaves. one was alteady teal, the other I colored with a pigment ink pad.  I cut the loop off some asian charms and glued them down over the leaves.  Added a used postage stamp and a cut out butterfly and decided that was all the wisdom I had to add to the page! I hope it brings me some wisdom...

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Zen?

Here's a journal page I finished recently using Zentangles and some other stuff.  Zentangles or Zendoodles are really good for me to do sometimes when I'm thinking too much.  I tend to do that alot and once I start doodling on the page I can get pretty absorbed in it and quit all that thinking and free up my brain to move on the other stuff.  So this page reminds me of one aspect of that and stopping the thinking helps me to be creative so I can always look back at this page when I need to find inspiration.  I like to do the Zentangles in my journal too because my journal is my place to play and experiment and it doesn't have to be perfect.

The bees and the "creativity" is from a big sheet of paper I have.  I use Micron pens for my Zentangles, I have a .03, .05, .08 - various widths.

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Enjoy! 

Zendoodle ATCs

Here's some ATCs I made for a Zendoodle Swap at Milliande Art Community for Women on Ning.  I haven't participated in alot of swaps lately but I'm kinda missing them and getting fun art in the mail!  So I've tried to sign up for a few lately.  I got off track meeting deadlines for awhile so quit taking part.  But I just need to discipline myself cuz if I don't send any fun mail out into the world I'm not going to get any showing up in my mailbox - and I want mail art!

Thanks for taking a look!

I wish you all a happy and safe 4th of July!

Free Art Supplies

Recently, while at Home Depot, I decided to pick up some paint sample cards in all the dif shades of white to try out Zentangles on. I usually pick some up whenever I am there but in colors as I love to use them to punch shapes out of as the shapes come out with nice crisp edges and they have such a nice finish and great colors. But this time choose various whites or light colors. I used a Sharpie pen for the following card's Zentangle. I think I'll do a bunch of these and punch a hole in the upper corner and bind them on a ring. I'll use them as a resource when doing more Zentangles as I find it very helpful to look at dif designs to inspire me for what I want to draw in the next space I'm filling in.

And the price is right - free is always good!

Journal and Zentangle

Here's a Zentangle page I did in my journal. I used Pitt brand black pens.

Zentangles

Lately I've been into Zentangling. I find it relaxing and just a little bit addicitng!

I've always doodled. Especially when on the phone. But now I've taken it to a new level after discovering Zentangles. I've never really focused on the overall design of my doodles like this!

Zentangles is a form of doodling. Rick and Maria of Zentangles.com started Zentangle and have made it popular. Check out their website to see alot of Zentangles and info.

Here's a couple of the first Zentangles I did.

And here's an owl I Zentangled. I got the idea from an owl drawing I saw in the Entertainment section of the newspaper.