{"id":39261,"date":"2018-01-14T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=39261"},"modified":"2018-01-11T23:35:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T06:35:18","slug":"gift-post-5-zentangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/gift-post-5-zentangle\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Post #5: Zentangle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a class at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aworkofheart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Work of Heart Studio<\/a> in San Jose last week. My mom has been talking about learning the Zentangle technique, so I took her as a Christmas gift.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39264\" style=\"width: 155px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180107_184631.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180107_184631-155x300.jpg\" alt=\"First two Zentangle tiles\" width=\"155\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180107_184631-155x300.jpg 155w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180107_184631-768x1483.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180107_184631-530x1024.jpg 530w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180107_184631-1200x2318.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180107_184631.jpg 1812w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 85vw, 155px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First two Zentangle tiles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The class was 2 hours and we drew two tiles (3.5&#8243; x 3.5&#8243; squares of rag paper). In the course of the class we learned several patterns. The technique is a lot simpler than the finished product looks and I don&#8217;t think you need special powers to make a tile like I have drawn above. I followed the directions and piece by piece the finished tile evolved.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-39261 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20180111_083641-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180111_083641-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Tile n.3\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-39269\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39269'>\n\t\t\t\tTile n.3\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20180111_083236-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180111_083236-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Tile n.4\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-39267\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39267'>\n\t\t\t\tTile n.4\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20180111_082704-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20180111_082704-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Tile n.5\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-39263\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39263'>\n\t\t\t\tTile n.5\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I went to Dick Blick with my mom and Lil Sissy (they both had gift cards)\u00a0 and bought some Illustration Board ATCs. I have been drawing some more Zentangle patterns on those. I drew the first sets of patterns over and then started trying a new one.<\/p>\n<p>This method reminds me of the type of drawing and materials I\u00a0 used when I did the Creative Prompt Project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/cpp-response\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Responses<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a class at A Work of Heart Studio in San Jose last week. My mom has been talking about learning the Zentangle technique, so I took her as a Christmas gift. The class was 2 hours and we drew two tiles (3.5&#8243; x 3.5&#8243; squares of rag paper). In the course of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/gift-post-5-zentangle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gift Post #5: Zentangle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[453],"tags":[311,116],"class_list":["post-39261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-453","tag-creativity","tag-drawing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}