One Zentangle a Day

would be darker because they are in the shadow area. Use a blending pen to create or enhance highlight areas.
    This project also uses colored pencil to add highlights and shadows. Colored pencils are opaque and leave a soft line behind with a look similar to pastels. Combining media, such as markers and colored pencils, gives a rich range in color and textural differences. We will use colored pencils to go over the markers to add shadows and highlights.
    If you would like to start with a string, pencil it in very lightly. Continue with our botanical theme and draw organic patterns using the Micron 01 pen. Do not add shading yet. Decide on a color palette. Apply single-layer washes of color on the pattern areas of choice. Build up the color in the shadow area by applying another layer using the same marker. Last, apply the shadows and highlights using the colored pencils.
    This tile has some very busy patterns. To bring the seedpod’s frond forward, I traced over them a second time making them darker than the background. An object that is darker will appear closer to the viewer. Color can also help separate busy patterns.
    These tiles were drawn with the Micron pen, then colored in using a palette of blue, yellow, and green.

DAY 27 WATER-SOLUBLE INK PENCILS
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Micron 01 pen
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Pigma Sensei 03 pen
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2B pencil
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sketchbook
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white tile
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tile from watercolor paper
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Inktense colored pencils

Daily Tangles
    Try these three patterns. We are using two official patterns, Meer and Enyshou, today. Judy chose to work with the two patterns because she finds them very adaptable. Be aware of keeping the spacing even between the diagonal lines as you draw Meer.
    Enyshou is a great pattern for moving the eye along, transferring between patterns, or adding an element of surprise. Reef, a pattern that Judy created, can be used when you want vertical lift in your design. Reef is easily adapted to be either organic or geometric by nature. Judy uses an art technique, one-point perspective, to emphasize the structure’s perspective creating depth with the pattern.

    Look at the forth step-out of Reef to see the exact point to where all slanted lines are drawn. The vanishing lines may be penciled in using a straight edge or freehanded, pivoting from the point to the top edges of each reef.

Creating ZIA with Inktense Colored Pencils
    Inktense colored pencils are water-soluble colored pencils that have a core of colored ink. Similar to colored pencils, these pencils are bold and vibrant in color when used both dry and wet. When used dry, they blend well together when you place one color over another. They can be colored onto a piece of paper, and then lifted and blended with a wet brush. They can be dipped in water and used to apply the ink directly to the paper, or shaved and blended with water on a palette to create a wash.
    Start your ZIA tile by drawing a light string and then use the Pigma or Micron pen to draw in the tangles. Pick a color scheme and create a palette using the Inktense pencils. Color in the tile. Add shading by using complementary colors.
    Judy, a fiber and textile artist, saw a ribbon when she looked at her string. By manipulating the size of the center diagonal lines of Meer, she was able to create perspective and depth. After the straight border and centerlines were drawn, she drew in the orbs. Notice the perspective achieved on the corners by drawing some of the orbs half-hidden behind the previous orb. Enyshou has been removed from its cylindrical state and drawn in a line that gets smaller as it descends into the background.
    Judy started this tile by drawing her pattern Reef on the tile. A Tangleation of Msst was used as a shading pattern on Reef. By turning the Tangleation, Judy kept the lines where the shading would be darker, and where it becomes lighter, the dot pattern was used. She decided next to draw in the pattern Isochor to create movement and to add contrast to the angular openness of Reef. After that, the other patterns fell into place. When she was finished drawing the tile, she realized the Reef pattern’s black tops were quite strong and were overtaking the other patterns, so she decided to use a primary palette of yellow, red, and blue. The yellow atmosphere around Reef tricks the eye into thinking that there is less contrast between this pattern and the others.

DAY 28 COLORED TANGLED JOURNALING
    MATERIALS
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Micron 01 pen
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Fine Tip Pigma Sensei 03