Totally Tangled: Zentangle and Beyond (Design Originals) Art Therapy to Focus Your Mind, Reduce Stress, Relax, and Build Creative Confidence with Over 100 Meditative Tangles, Patterns, and Doodles - Softcover

Sandy Steen Bartholomew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574216716 ISBN 13: 9781574216714

Publisher: Design Originals, 2010

Synopsis

Learn to focus, relax your mind, and boost your creative confidence!

• Over 100 tangles inspired by Zentangle(R)
• The basics of Zentangle(R), plus tools and supplies
• Learn shading, how to incorporate color, and adding polish to your tangles
• International influences include Indian, Japanese, and Egyptian designs
• Learn how to design and combine strings, grids, circles, triangles, and more
• Tangle styles include elemental, landscape, plants, animals, household, and architecture
• Inspiring galleries of ideas for 3-D objects, journals, sketchbooks, wall art, and more

This inspiring book offers over 100 Zentangle designs, with versatile graphics that can be used to decorate any surface. Use Micron pens to make drawing your tangles simple and permanent.

Zentangle(R) is about filling spaces using patterns that start with a simple line and become more beautiful and seemingly complex as areas are filled. The process is appealing to graphics artists as well as those just learning to draw. If you don't think you can draw at all, tangling will show you different!

The Zentangle Method(R), created by artists Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas, is meditation achieved through pattern-making. A "Zentangle" is a drawing that looks complicated, but is built one line at a time. Simple tangles, or patterns, are combined in an unplanned way that grows and changes in amazing directions. With your mind engaged in drawing, your body relaxes. Anxiety and stress move to the back burner. Often, new insights are uncovered along with a sense of confidence in your creative abilities.

Learn the basics of Zentangle(R), techniques to incorporate color and shading to polish your tangles, and find over 100 new tangles to try, all inside Totally Tangled!

About this title

Book Description

These versatile graphics can be used to decorate any surface. Micron  pens make drawing the tangles simple and permanent. Zentangle is  about filling spaces using pattern with a simple line, and becomes more attractive and complex as areas are filled. The process is appealing to graphics artists as well as those just learning to draw.

From the Author

Want to learn ZentangleŽ? Want to learn MORE?
Learn all the basics of Zentangle, plus tips on designing your own tangles (patterns). This book is filled with 52 pages of great ideas, Zentangle artwork, tips and a gazillion new Tangles (about 100). Get inspiration from 12 artists - all completely addicted to this amazing artform.

In case you haven't heard, Zentangle is a relaxing form of meditation that uses repetitive pattern drawing. Basically, it's really fun, addictive and teaches creative confidence. It's hard to explain, but really amazing!

This book gives the basics, then jumps into the paradox of relaxing chaos. Yes. It is very hard to describe Zentangle! I designed this book to be a lot like one of my classes, with ideas and tips everywhere. But you can tune me out and just go for the patterns, that is just fine. :-)

About this edition

• Publisher: Design Originals
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1574216716
• ISBN 13: 9781574216714
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48