Last week, I discovered “zentangling” (see former post) and I’ve been playing
with it all weekend. Man – I’m hooked! I made 4 ATC’s this weekend and I also
started a mini-journal to be filled with zentangled pages. I’m having a blast!
I’m also happy that I can do this in the evening. I stopped working on art
journals or scrappages at night because of the bad (yellow) lamps we have.
I mean, the lights we have in the evening are nice and cozy but not suitable to
work with colours. The pages always look different the next day so I stopped
working in my art journal in the evening (at least if there’s colour involved)
But these zentanglings are done with a black pen on white (or creme) so in
the evenings I zentangle away! It’s such a relaxing thing to do…
I presume my brother couldn’t help but smile when he read my former post
and I can hear him say “Zentangling dear? I did that 25 years ago, remember?”
Yes bro, I remember! It is even so much so that I still have that framed page
you gave me back then (was it 1985?)
And here’s that page my brother made back in the days… he was way ahead
of his big sis – in zentangling that is 😉
And here are the ATC’s I made this weekend.
I call these “Independent women”
(If you want to take a better look: the cards are separately published in
my gallery. Look under “Artist Trading Cards” in my ATC/Cards gallery
on top of my blog)
I stamped the four ladies, and coloured them with pencils at first
but that turned out way too soft against the black and white.
So I used markers instead. The “skin colour” is a bit orange – I have to
go buy me a good skin colour marker soon (any tips?)
After making the cards,
I still hadn’t had enough
and I thought of an old
pocket diary – cover I had.
I looked it up and decided
to start a “mini zentangle
art journal” in that.
It has a ring binder inside
and this makes it easy to
work on the pages and
put them in the cover
later.
I think I will alter this book
but because the cover is
made of some sort of fabric, I haven’t yet a clue on how I’ll do that.
I had some cardstock
in this creme colour
and I cut pages in
different shapes
out of that.
For now, there are
nine pages, but I
can add more
if this addiction
is going to last…
…but there’s a
strong change
this technique is
going to stay
’cause I had a lot
of fun making
this first page!!!
This morning, after I got out of bed (had breakfast, shower etc.) I put on the
computer and found an e-mail from my friend Chris with a link pointing me
to a video she thought I might enjoy… there could be no better way to start
the day! My jaw hit the ground when I saw it, and I want to share it with all
of you. Especially if you like art journaling this is a “must see”!!!
Enjoy this video & enjoy your day!
Je t’embrasse!