Creative Christmas Snowflake Crafts from Better Homes and Gardens. Pens and More. News from Zentangle. News from Zentangle. For the seventh time we were privileged to meet some wonderful people, hear amazing stories, see beautiful Zentangle art and make new friends at our Certified Zentangle Teacher seminar.
This seminar was held at our new location at Hotel Providence in Providence, RI and it was a great success. Australia, Canada, India, Japan, South Africa and United States were represented. We'll share lots of pictures and stories later, but here's a sample. In a testament to the growing awareness of the benefits of our Zentangle method, administrators at a college here in New England sent one of their PhDs to become a CZT. They want to conduct clinical trials on the benefits of creating art according to the Zentangle method and they wanted their lead person to become a CZT before working with us to design the study. In the meantime, please welcome these wonderful new CZTs! News from Zentangle. Earlier this year, we visited The Cloisters in New York City.
The Cloisters is a museum dedicated to housing 12th through 15th century art and architecture. It's a feast of patterns! News from Zentangle. Awesome Feedback.
News from Zentangle. You may have noticed this new tangle appearing here and there.
This tangle is one of a rare "species" in our zentomology of tangles. Its basic structure is a malleable tessellation, but tripoli takes things a bit further. It's not just tiling adjacent triangles - a delightful tangle in itself - but what you then do within and between those triangles that yields amazingly different and fun results. This tangle also introduces an effect called an Ehrenstein Illusion where tips of these triangles in a way that creates a space which seems brighter than surrounding areas.
This is a fun tangle which invites all sorts of tangleations. News from Zentangle. Here are some stories and pictures we've recently received.
From a conversation with Kate Murray, CZT, [email] Paris, France, Greeting from Beijing, China. I am here working with my consulting customer, [name of company], at their International Seminar. One thing I have talked about with my students since I participted in CZT training was the art of Zentangle. I have given them the website and to my great joy most have gone to the site to see what it is all about.
Then they wrote back to me that they wanted to learn. The Art Form of Zentangle will be further heard around the world. News from Zentangle. While at The Cloisters, we admired the florz-like pattern in this window.
We had fun puzzling over clever ways to create a tangle from this pattern without using florz' underlying grid. We then went into a dimly lit room with miniature books and tapestries. I (Rick) took my glasses off to see them better. When we came out, I again saw this brilliantly backlit window without my glasses and saw a new pattern in that same window. News from Zentangle. Lots of goings on in our Zentangle world these days.
We'll file this next one under the category of "When one door closes, another opens. " We just learned that as of August, 2011, the Worcester Diocese will close Oakhurst Retreat Center. That's the facility we have been using for our CZT training seminars. NOTE: For all you folks who are attending our May seminar, nothing has changed. We have contacted students who had already registered and paid for our October training. News from Zentangle. We receive such wonderful emails and mail.
We try to answer it all, but it is taking longer and longer - so thank you for your patience. Here are a few samples from some recent emails, edited for privacy. Just a short note to say that I received my order in good time. I really loved the print and thank you for signing it.Many thanks. News from Zentangle. Facets is a great new tangle sent to us by Nancy Pinke, a Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT) in Elko, Minnesota.
We like facets because it is unique, easy to do, fun to shade and you can use it in many ways. After you establish your unique facet grid, it is created with only one stroke, a straight line, similar to paradox. And when you see the instructions, you immediately understand how to create it. Here's a four-tile Ensemble that Nancy created using facets. (See a larger version on this blog entry.) Here are a few Zentangles that Rick and Maria created with facets (larger images on blog). As you familiarize yourself with this tangle, explore doing it in different ways. Another way to play with this pattern is to tangle it in sync with your breath - top line, inhale - bottom line, exhale - etc.
News from Zentangle. We are now accepting registrations for Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT) seminars in February and May, 2011.
To learn more about our CZT program, please see this blog entry. Several newsletters in our newsletter archive provide more information and pictures such as this one and this one. (These are links to earlier dates and prices.) We appreciate how many more people understand Zentangle's potential - both as a benefit to others and as a way to create income as a Certified Zentangle Teacher.
Therefore, we are offering three CZT seminars in 2011.We are able to accept registrations for 2011's first two seminars because we have received price commitments from our vendors. Please send in your registrations promptly. February 22-25, 2011, SeminarOur very first CZT seminar was in February, 2009. News from Zentangle.
News from Zentangle. Zentangle Workshop in Whitinsville We were asked to do a workshop at the Oakhurst Retreat Center where we do our CZT training. We know this is last minute, but since there will be a small amount of space available, we asked them if we could announce it on our newsletter. They said they would love to have other people attend. So here it is: When: September 22, 2010, Day and/or Evening Where: Whitinsville, Massachusetts. News from Zentangle. Over sixty new passionate and wonderful people are now Certified Zentangle Teachers (CZTs) and, we're proud and grateful to say, our friends.
Here's our class picture. (With our granddaughter :-) Please visit our updated list of Certified Zentangle Teachers. We added several states to that list including Hawaii and Alaska, some new provinces in Canada and a new country - The Netherlands. News from Zentangle. News from Zentangle. News from Zentangle. News from Zentangle. I wanted to send a short note to say thank you for your prompt service and let you know how happy I am with the Zentangle kit that I received today. I actually heard about Zentangles several months ago and have created several on my own, but I was very excited to receive my "official" kit. Thank you again! -- K OMG OMG OMG!!! News from Zentangle. News from Zentangle. News from Zentangle.
News from Zentangle. Here's a note we recently received from some new friends in Florida (two of which are attending our fall training seminar!). "A few months ago, a group of four members of the Surface Design Guild of Sarasota discovered your Zentangles. We've caught the fever. The four of us decided to do an ensemble, where each of us drew a basic string pattern; then cut that in four equal parts.
We then traded our pieces with the other three players for them to complete. A month later, when we met, the pieces were returned to their owners, and our four ensembles were reassembled. "I do not have to tell you how impressive they are, and others could hardly wait to start their own ensembles. "Because of the enthusiasm we are considering including an ongoing Zentangle 'swap' as part of our monthly meetings. "Your newsletters are indicative of how many people you've touched. "I'm attaching the results of my ensemble from the first swap.
"with much appreciation, LR" News from Zentangle. Bees have a particular way they arrange their hive. It's called "bee space. " If there is too much space, they will fill it with comb. Rick had introduced a new queen to one of his hives and in that process created a temporary open space that the bees quickly began to fill. News from Zentangle. With so much interest in sharing and teaching Zentangle, we have scheduled another Zentangle Certification Training Seminar.
It will be in Whitinsville, Massachusetts (USA) on September 29 through October 2, 2009. Learn more about this event here. News from Zentangle. After hosting a Zentangle workshop, New Hampshire's Women's Caucus for Art knew just what to do for the gnu of New London. Newsletters. News from Zentangle. Molly and Nick Get Married. News from Zentangle. Rick's been having fun with our paradox tangle. News from Zentangle. Inspired by a self-imposed deadline of hosting a fundraiser for a local community organization, we cleaned out our backstairs to create our "Backstares Gallery.
" We pulled up some funky carpet, Maria painted floors, we replaced windows and Rick hung lights. Entering from the second floor, that Zentangle on the floor is actually a trompe l'oeil that Maria painted (beneath an empty frame!). The composition below is an interlocking series of eight 22 x 30 inch sheets of our Zentangle paper. News from Zentangle. News from Zentangle. Zentangle in the NewsHere are some excerpts from an article in the Southbridge Evening News, May 12, 2008. Make Time to Exercise Muscles of Your Mindby Matt Reynolds [. . .]
Friday's exhibition featured instructions in a host of mental fitness practices, including aroma therapy, yoga, hand-waxing and Reiki [. . .] Clubhouse members also browsed informational tables on aspects of mental and physical wellness including proper dietary habits. The overarching theme, according to Marvel, is "relaxation, managing stress, restoring yourself - body, mind and spirit - and looking at ways of doing different things.
" "It's all about self-care, self-responsibility, self-awareness, and taking your recovery into your own hands, with the support of your community," Vezima said. The best part, Marvell noted, is that all of these lessons and habits can be easily and conveniently sewn into the fabric of daily life. "It helps them to learn to relax a little, to be more mindful," Cleveland said. News from Zentangle. News from Zentangle. News from Zentangle. News from Zentangle. News from Zentangle. Zentangles & Comments from around the world. News from Zentangle. Products. What is it? Zentangle - Zentangle. Zentangle's Channel.