Zentangle Basics, Expanded Workbook Edition: A Creative Art Form Where All You Need is Paper, Pencil & Pen (Design Originals) 25 Original Tangles, Beginner-Friendly Practice Exercises, & Techniques - Softcover

McNeill CZT, Suzanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574219049 ISBN 13: 9781574219043

Publisher: Design Originals, 2013

Synopsis

The Zentangle book that started it all—and inspired 9 sequels—is now available in an expanded workbook edition!

• 25 original tangles with step-by-step illustrations to get you tangling in no time
• Expanded workbook edition offers 16 interactive bonus pages to help you practice your tangles
• Beginner-friendly creative art, with no special artistic talent required to get started, just some paper, a pen, and a pencil
• Decrease stress and increase your creative focus with this meditative hobby

Zentangle turns drawings into artistic design while reducing stress and improving focus. Zentangle Basics introduces you to this popular trend in drawing meditation.

Using only pencil, pen, and paper, you'll learn how to draw 25 original tangles, and discover inspiring ideas for incorporating these designs into your art.

This expanded workbook edition includes an interactive bonus section where you can get started with warm-up exercises, practice tangling, and experiment with strings and shading. It is also filled with valuable tips and ideas for creating beautiful Zentangle-inspired art.

With benefits including stress relief, inspiration, and improved self-esteem, this relaxing craft can be done anywhere and no special "artistic" talent is required. Tangles can be used to decorate wearables and home decor objects as well as to embellish cards, scrapbook pages, and journals. There is really no limit to the creativity!

Best of all, you can tangle even if you have never drawn anything before. Zentangle Basics, Expanded Workbook Edition will show you how!

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Zentangle(r) Basics 1

New! Expanded edition includes 16 new workbook pages for practice and enjoyment.

Zentangle turns drawings into artistic design while reducing stress and improving focus. This relaxing process can be done anywhere and no artistic talent is needed. Embellish journals, scrapbooks, art, paintings, and cards. There is really no limit to creativity.

The Zentangle Basics book helps students and educators get started. It features step-by-step illustrations for 25 tangles. Also included are tips on how to relate Zentangle to learn spelling, math, social studies, geometry, and art.

Traditional Zentangle includes a ritual to help get in touch with life. Tangles are used as learning skills for school children, as stress reduction for adults, and they help develop dexterity. In addition, the Zentangle method can help you to create fabulous works of art that resemble etchings.

"Anything is possible, one stroke at a time."(tm)
—Rock Roberts and Maria Thomas, zentangle.com

About the Author:

Suzanne McNeill is the author of more than 200 craft & hobby books, including Joy of Zentangle, The Beauty of Zentangle, the 11-volume Zentangle series, and Zen Mandalas. Suzanne founded the leading publisher of Zentangle books, Design Originals (an imprint of Fox Chapel Publishing). She was voted "Designer of the Year" and received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Craft & Hobby Association. Suzanne has been called "the trendsetter" of the arts and crafts industry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Design Originals
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1574219049
• ISBN 13: 9781574219043
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32