One Zentangle a Day

tangle on a midtoned ATC. Try creating other ATCs using the same patterns on several colors.
    The first piece was created on a white tile that was partially covered with a layer of dried blue Gelatos. Judy drew the tangles in the achromatic scale on the pink ATC, center. On the green ATC, Judy used a light green pastel pencil for the highlight and a dark green for the shadow.

DAY 17 CURVY AND LINEAR ORGANIC PATTERNS COMBINED
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Micron 01 pen
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pencil
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water-soluble graphite
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sketchbook
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two white tiles
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take-along Zentangle kit
    ORGANIC PATTERNS INTERTWINE well together. They create edges full of nooks and crannies that are interesting transition points for changing patterns.

Daily Tangles
    Try these three patterns. Today’s patterns all have an organic feel to them but visually are very different. Vitruvius’s square-in-a-circle pattern creates lively movement to the area it is used in. Courant has a maze-like appearance that works as a background or as the pattern on a focal shape. Sedgling is as fun to draw as it is to say.

    Practice the new patterns in your sketchbook until they feel familiar. Then create a Zentangle tile using today’s patterns and any other patterns or Tangleations of patterns from this week.
    The composition in this tile was pulled together in the end when I drew Locar up the left side and Msst across the top.
    Both Angie and I drew the patterns with a Micron pen and then used water-soluble graphite for the shading. There is more control in the gray tones because you can create a wash with the graphite and apply it with a brush. The first tile uses two washes of graphite to create shading: one light and one darker. The second tile uses a light wash that is applied and then allowed to dry between coats to build up the darker shadows.

Zentangle Inspired Art: Tangled Journaling
    Tangled journaling is a great way to clear your mind, express yourself, or change your mood. There were two example tiles of this in the chapter intro. The simplest form of tangled journaling starts by drawing a string and going through the process of creating a Zentangle tile just as we do every day, with one exception. The tangled patterns I use are picked to represent how I am feeling. When I do tangled journaling, I use one of the lines on the back of the tile to write a reminder or a comment that will trigger my memory of that tangled journaling session.

DAY 18 CURVILINEAR GEOMETRIC PATTERNS
    MATERIALS
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Micron 01 pen
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pencil
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sketchbook
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two white tiles

Daily Tangles
    Try these three patterns. The pattern Gneiss has a base that’s convenient for building a new pattern in. Cadent has two variations—one creates a square pattern, the other a triangular pattern. Huggins is a great woven pattern that works up very fast once you catch on.
    Today’s patterns all fall under the category of curvilinear geometric patterns.
    Practice these patterns in your sketchbook until they feel familiar. Use the three new patterns in combination with any of our previously learned patterns or a Tangleation of them to complete your tile. Remember to use the eleven-step process for creating your Zentangle tile as you work.
    Because many of the patterns are very similar in this tile, the shading creates the planes of depth.
    CURVILINEAR SHAPES ARE BASED on a curved line and contain little, if any, straight lines. The latitude grid that runs on a map of the round Earth is an example of curvilinear barrel distortion. Inverting a line curve in is called curvilinear pincushion distortion. Tangle patterns that are based on a grid can take advantage of barrel and pincushion distortion to add form and volume.
    Notice that barrel distortion gives the illusion of the grid coming forward, while pincushion distortion gives the illusion of the grid descending to the background.

Tangled Journaling on the Go
    I often use a simplified form of two-pointed curvilinear perspective in my tangled journaling. I start drawing the curving ground line or horizontal line in barrel or pincushion distortion. The focal shape is a line drawing, drawn with a pen. I continue to create the shapes I intend to place on or along the distorted horizon line. Next, I fill in the string areas with tangled patterns to add form, shape, and interest. I shade the drawing so the piece has dimension. On the back, I write the location and date when I sign it.
    This piece started with a pincushion distorted horizon line. Iggy