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When designing this Project Pack, we found our inspiration in paying homage to the art of making adorned displays for personal photos, letters, memorabilia and ephemera. In our hunt to find a word to describe these beautiful tangled frames and borders to hold our most precious things Maria discovered the word Cartouche.
Today, we bring back this lovely word to describe our approach to using the Zentangle Method to create ornate frames and borders.
This Project Pack has all the supplies you will need to follow along with us as you adorn your most post precious keepsakes.
Together, we will explore fun, and "outside-the-box" ideas on how to mount and "frame" your treasures using Zentangle inspired techniques. Multiple video tutorials will guide you through the use of the Project Pack contents. Each video will demonstrate a different way to create illuminations and borders. . . and perhaps a dingbatz or two.
We will take simple tangles and use them in unexpected ways. We will work with different ways to mount photos and objects. Then we will play with auras, tangle enhancers, and creative shading techniques to bring special focus to some of your most meaningful possessions.
After you order your project pack, you will need to find some of these cherished items. Old photos, or, better yet, a photo where part of it can be cut out or trimmed away. Perhaps a baby spoon, or maybe an old gold brooch that is fantastic, but you would never wear. You might even gather an object like coin or a fortune cookie fortune.
Once upon a time, Rick and Maria sold prints of Maria’s botanical illustrations at art fairs. Maria would inscribe each botanical she sold as the customer watched. As customers watched her beautiful lettering appear on the page they became emotional and exclaimed how they wished they could do what she did. Then, without missing a beat, they gave all the reasons why they couldn't . . . not enough time, talent, space, money, etc. But Rick and Maria were struck by their deep yearning to experience their own creative fulfillment.
Sometime later, on a quiet Saturday afternoon in the fall of 2003, Rick interrupted Maria in her studio as she added patterns to the background of a large, gilded letter.
Rick’s sudden interruption caused her to notice what she was experiencing just before he interrupted her. Maria described feelings of selflessness, timelessness, effortlessness, and a rich immersion in what she was doing – all classic aspects of a flow state. Rick, who had practiced meditation for many years, said, “You’re describing meditation.”
As Rick and Maria discussed what had just happened, they noted that the beautiful patterns behind the gold-leafed letter were simple to draw, unlike the precise letter forms. Then they remembered all those people who yearned to be creative yet could not invest the time necessary to become an accomplished lettering artist. Maybe they would enjoy learning how to draw these patterns.
And so began the idea that grew to become the Zentangle Method of drawing. By some good fortune, we realized the importance of the idea. To capture it in its fresh fullness, we bought a blank book and booked a B&B in western Massachusetts for a couple days. All the way there and back, and all the time we were there, we recorded our conversations in that book. It felt like we were taking dictation. Everything we wrote became the Zentangle Method as we now teach it.
On the last night of our stay, after trying on many names, we still hadn’t found one that fit. Although we did like the word “tangle” to describe our new method of drawing patterns.
As we played with words that rhymed with "tangle", one of us said “Zentangle.” It was like finally putting on a shoe that fits after trying on many ill-fitting ones. All at once, we both exclaimed, “That’s It!”
Through the Zentangle Method of drawing, you can
The Zentangle Method offers all this and so much more.
It may look simple, but there's a lot going on here. Savor this time as you discover and enjoy all that the Zentangle Method (and you!) have to offer. Explore this website, beginning with the links on the left. Take a Zentangle class with a Certified Zentangle Teacher. Create some Zentangle art and you will understand why we say,
"Life is an art form and that each of us is an artist."
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