I’ve been away on a family reunion, during which I barely had any time to draw. Here is one piece, though, that I managed to make during this time. The challenge was to create an asymmetric pop-up composition using mostly V-folds. Not sure it’s my favorite composition for pop-ups, but it was fun to see how it came along in a very unusual way.
Read MoreContinuing my latest obsession with pop-ups, watching a ton of videos on different mechanisms, my goal is to understand the differences well enough so that I can create pieces intuitively using Zentangle patterns. Many thanks to fantastic paper engineers that post instructional videos online such as Duncan Birmingham and Matthew Reinhart.
Read MoreToday Art Clubbers worked on Part 2 of a class called Skyline on Phi. This is based on the design of my friend Debora Augusto who kindly granted me permission to teach it. We completed most of the line-art on Part 1 and shading in Part 2. The blog also shows the video of my latest pop-up card I made based on the same concept.
Read MoreContinuing my new obsession with pop-ups and paper mechanics. While practicing some tangles I created this tiny 3x3 inches (8x8cm) handmade paper pop-up card using Zentangle tangles such as Cadent, Nik (Bunny Wright) and Mooka.
Read MoreYesterday Art Clubbers and I worked on Part 1 of this beautiful ZIA project: the Palmette Zendala. Tangles include Icanthis, Mooka, Wyforwings (tangleation of Wyfore) and Fluxecho (Lynn Mead). In Part 2 we’ll cover the shading!
Read MoreHere's another contribution to the To You Tangle 2023 using Dinbatz and Mooka. My pen also brought into the mix some coffering, Flux, Buen Camino (Tina Hunziker) and Icanthis.
Read MoreA Palmette is a palm-looking ornament widely used in Roman and Greek architectural ornamentation. Inspired by that mirrored design, I created a ZIA using Sanibelle (Tricia Faraone), Mooka, Wyfore/Drawings, Cyme and Icanthis.
Read MoreYesterday I taught a much awaited class on how to create these Fancy Caps. It was a long class, where we learned about gems, how to draw the fancy caps and developed this lovely ZIA project.
Read MoreYesterday Art Clubbers and I worked on an advanced project including Phossil, producing this lovely landscape-looking piece. I think this is finally the last chapter of Phossil for me, for a while at least.
Read MoreI’m not tired of Phossil yet, I suspect there are a few more of these coming out of my pen. Here is Fossil, Vega, Zander and Opus (Zentangle).
Read MoreThese Zentangle tiles must be magic, whenever I feel there is no more room for anything else, somehow they manage to get more and more. Sheesh! Tangles are Phossil, Zentwining (Lynn Mead), a marine version of Mooka with some Fancy Caps and Opus.
Read MoreThis one had a “less loved” start with Zenith and sat on my desk for a long time. Suddenly the thing just came to life with Phossil, Zentwining and some Fancy Caps! Now it's one of my favorites. Just to show, don't give up on your less loved tiles.
Read MoreLast Thursday Art Clubbers and I had a class on how to create this intuitive, meditative version of Mooka, full of overlap and intricacy.
Read MoreToday we had Part 1 of the series Organicize, using Flux, Mooka, Eofer and Verdigogh
Read MoreHaving so much fun preparing for my class on Faux Viking knots. This one mixed with Nik, Mooka and Cadent.
Read MoreA very fun lesson on how to create Floo-ish and Mooka3D, with particular emphasis on shading.
Read MoreAfter all the excitement of the Art Raffle launch on Friday, I needed a way to decompress. I attended Midori's Zendala Hen class and enjoyed myself.
Read MoreHad a lovely time following Molly Hollibaugh's voice guided meditation, and adding a little bit of Moquette (Sandra Strait to the inside.
Read MoreNew video lesson is now live at the shop, showing how to create dingbatz using Mooka 3D.
Read MoreConverting tangles into Blossoms over Renaissance tile.
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