August Zentangle Club

My friend Hetty organized a best friends day to celebrate her 79th birthday. She is such a busy lady that she, sometimes, doesn't see a chance to see us. That's why she invited us ( 7 ladies) to celebrate her birthday at  my son-in-law Remco's Wok Restaurant: Yakimono to have a ladies night out.

But what to give your friend if she likes to give but not receive? In her invitation she had emphatically told us that she didn't want any presents. I didn't want to come empty handed. Then I got an idea what I could give her. She is a soccer fanatic and never misses a game. Her favorite team is  FC Utrecht. She attends every home game. So why not make a ZIA for her and include FC Utrecht in it!! 

 

The two tangles for this month Zentangle Club are Parasail and  Footlites. I decided to use them in this ZIA. After all I only used Footlites. So here is my ZIA for Hetty.

And here when she received it. She was thrilled.

 

Of course she gave us little presents and we were not supposed to bring anything??

  I don't think so!

July Zentangle Club

Just finished the Zentangles for July. Again two fun tangles to try: Floatfest and Yuan.

Tangles Used:

Floatfest, Rockz, Pais, Zedbra and Hibred.

Tangles used:

Yuan, Vortex, Prestwood, Ogen, Eylet & Ribbon and Assunta.

June Zentangle Club

I finally catched up with my "homework" for Joni's Zentangle Club. Here is my June contribution. We had to use Zedbra and Shard. I've never tried Zedbra but Shard I've used before.

 Tangles used: Jute, Zedbra, Purlbox and Prestwood.

When I was ready to work on Shard I received Rick and Maria's newsletter showing how to draw the new tangle: Auraknot. I wanted to try it out immediately and used it with Shard.

Tomorrow Joni will send the July tangles. I better keep up.

Another challenge I have neglected is from I am the Diva. Hopefully I will be able to participate soon.

May Zentangle Club

Tangles for this month: Chebucto and Prestwood.

How to draw the Chebucto tangle and how it got it's name can be found here. 

Tangles used: Tink, Vortex and Baton.

Prestwood is the next one:

 

I combined it with Skein, Krust and Annee. 

April Zentangle Club

April's Zentangles were: Golven and Pais.

Golven is the Dutch word for Waves. You should keep the curves aligned so they appear to flow as waves between the zig zag lines. Well mine aren't really aligned but I think it still turned out pretty good. Other tangles I used are: Poke Leaf, Dansk and Umble

Next is Pais.

Some of the other tangles are: Zander and Beedz.



March Zentangle Club

The two tangles for March were Onamato and Fohbraid.

We had to try to draw a two pencil string and use these two tangles inside. To make a two pencil string, just put a spacer between two pencils, then a rubber band to hold them together while you draw the string.

 Ornamato:

Other tangles I used: Keeko and Printemps

 Fohbraid:

 

I practised a lot of Fohbraid's in this Zentangle. some of the other tangles are: Crescent Moon, Betweed, Baton, Unyun and Rockz.

February Zentangle Club

 I 'm four months behind with Joni's Zentangle Club but I did some catching up and have finished the February,  March, April and May Zentangles this past few weeks. I will post them seperately, so this will be my contribution for February.

We had to use two tangles: Opus and Dansk. Both were fun to draw.

The three curly tangles are called Opus. Some other tangles I used are Drupe, Riple, Vortex, Dot 'n Dash, Rockz and Poke Root.

 Dansk is used in this Zentangle and is the one with the "aura's".
Other tangles are: Hi Rise, Trimonds, Flutter, Stubs, Scraper, Cadent.

December/January Club Zentangle

It took awhile before I finished  the December/January contributions to Joni's Zentangle Club but now I can finally show them.
For January we had to use Finery and Umble.
Finery is not my favorite although it is a beautiful tangle. I just need more practise to get a better result. Other tangles I used: Chic, Flutter Tile, Kuginuki and Lacy.

Here I used Umble and also Ballot, Kuginuki, Emilie, Pokeleaf/root and Matt

 I  made a birthday card (Happy Birthday Carole!!) out of this one and added some colour to the Pokeleaves.

For January the tangles to use were: Squid......

Other tangles I used here are Tagh, Feathers and similar ones.

.......and Printemps:

I also tried Brayd but I think it looks a bit funny...  

November Zentangle Club: Christmas Card

The two tangles for Joni's November class were Verdigogh and Poke Root/Leaf. Since I follow this class from a distance, Joni told me they had made Christmas cards that afternoon; so here is my creation, this is the original.  I like to keep it black and white.

For the Christmas cards I made prints. Done some shading and added color to it.

 The prints didn't come out as clear as the original. Even though I used the highest printer quality.

Have a wonderful Christmas!

October Zentangle Club: Pumpkin

Joni's Zentangle Club Project for the month of October was to make your own pumpkin string.  Two of the tangles to use were Florez and Oof.

September Zentangle Club: Leaf Shape

Last summer I followed two of Joni's classes while I was in SC but living too far away to attend her monthly Zentangle Club I could subscribe and receive the Zentangle Club Card and project by mail and send my tangles back to Joni to show the group. That way it still feels like being part of the group.
For September we had to do tangles in a leaf shape. My choice was a Gingko leaf.
The two tangles for that month were Baton and Artoo.

Zentangle class

When I arrived in USA, my next day was already planned. I was going to attend Joni Feddersen's Zentangle class.  She is the first certified Zentangle teacher in SC and she  lives only 25 miles away from my in-laws. Lucky me!!!! It was the introduction to Zentangle class. It was so much fun. We learned eight tangles.

These were the results

What I love about this is that we used the same tangles, same instructions but every tile looks different.

Tipple, Florz, Rockz and Crescent Moon:

Bales, Cadent, Zander and Hollibaugh:

Joni was so nice to make time, for Lisa and me, to teach the beyond basics class in the last week of my stay. We learned some other fun tangles:

Flukes, Nipa, Drupe, W2, Vortex, Paradox, Pepeer, Cubine, Ixorus and Knights Bridge

I have made Zentangle inspired art at home but taking this class one can learn so much more and now I could ask questions. Also learning how to shade I found very helpful. Thank you Joni for the two great classes, might see me again next year!

Joni's art can be seen here:

http://patternplaywithpens.blogspot.com/

and...do you see her necklace?...it's Zentangle too...