Asymmetric Flower Popup

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.

2024Eni OkenMay 7, 2024popup, fescu, moon pie, mooka, icanthis, toodles, purk

Bailarine Pop-up Part 3 Class

Yesterday Art Clubbers and I completed Part 3 of the Bailarine Pop-up card. This is the last project of the club! It was a three part series that will be available at my video shop as a video recorded class in a month or two. Tangles were Toodles, Tink, Msst and Bailarine. Such fun!!!

2024Eni OkenApril 12, 2024popup, bailarine, toodles, tink

Toodles in Pink Pop-up Card

Another pop-up card, this time using an “M-fold” with some attached muscled and little added feature extensions. Tangles are Toodles, Mooka, Fescu (all Zentangle) and also Garlic Cloves/Ravel (Jacquelien Bredenoord). Love this one!

2024Eni OkenApril 9, 2024popup, toodles, fescu, garlic cloves, naaki

Bailarine Pop-up Part 1 and 2 Classes

Last two Thursdays Art Clubbers and I are playing with the LAST class of the Art Club: a 3 part series on how to create tangled pop-up cards. In Part 1 we created a large V-fold panel; in Part 2 we worked on attached features and parallel folds. In Part 3 we’ll put it all together!

2024Eni OkenApril 5, 2024popup, bailarine, toodles, tink

Bailarine Toodles Pop-up

I have been away for family events, but before leaving I made a couple of pop-ups - trying to learn more about this super fun artform. Here I used Bailarine, Tink and Toodles. Go to the actual blog page to see the video and also a study mockup. I'll be posting the second one soon.

2024Eni OkenFebruary 21, 2024popup, bailarine, toodles, tink

Toodles Toobs

Always fascinating to see what the Art Raffle daily meditation is going to inspire. In this one I used a particularly complex string, which is hard to work with because it lacks fluidity. Still, was super fun and I love what happened with the ribbons there, Snap!

2023Eni OkenAugust 22, 2023complexstring, toobs, fife, joki, toodles, isochor

Nzeppel Twing

Daily meditation with the Art Raffle gave me Nzeppel, Twing and Toodles. I choose to use a tangleation called Nymph (Merlinda Barlow). Look at those trees on top of the Nzeppel hill, funny!!!

2023Eni OkenMarch 13, 2023blackandwhite, nzeppel, twing, phossil, addgrowth, toodles

Grafting Organics at ZenAgain 2022

ZenAgain is over but I'm still working my way through the projects. This one is from Session 2 on Organic Tangles and Grafting (blends). We used a few new tangles such as Mythograph and Foundabout.