Pakke med produkter til Project Pack No. 22 og Twelve Days of Zentangle 2023.
Pakken inneholder et utvalg tegnesaker, penner, papir og annet som brukes gjennom videoserien Twelve Days of Zentangle. Innholdet er hemmelig fram til lansering av første video 1. desember 2023. Videoene kan følges på YouTube, du finner de også HER.
Zentangle er en avlappende og lettlært tegnemetode der en tegner vakre mønstre strek for strek. Ingen forkunnskaper nødvendig. Metoden anbefales på det varmeste for alle som er glad i penn og papir og ønsker øvelse i fokus, tilstedeværelse og mestring.
Mer informasjon kan du finne på Zentangle sine nettsider HER.
The Zentangle Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns that we call tangles. You create tangles with combinations of dots, lines, simple curves, S-curves, and orbs. There are a few tangles in the history of the Zentangle Method that are known more and used more often and manipulated more than others. Their forms are basic, resilient, familiar and they have the potential to be so much more in so many ways.
This project pack will take a deep dive into one tangle and all that it stands for. As usual, we are taking a very creative outside the box approach to this fun theme. And as usual, we don't like to disclose too much before the videos are released. We can say that Project Pack No. 22 will take a deep dive into one of our most classic tangles. It takes a close look at some inspired strings and potential mosaics, and maybe ... just maybe has a new surface to be explored. Bijou's idea of course!
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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