Challenge #72

I'm surprised today that I actually found some time to do the challenge this week! I like monotangles, less thinking is required!!

The month of May has been our yearly Art Gippsland, and I entered four art shows!! All tangles on canvas too! I'm still working on one that has to be in tomorrow. Will post that Sunday

challenge #70 and Art Show award

This weeks challenge from Laura was to use the colour sepia. As I seem to be into zendalas at the moment, I used black and brown to design the following.

Arriving at the Yaragon Art Show this morning I was greeted with "Guess who won the 'Best Drawing ' prize?" Now I thought it would be my friend Bertie, as she had entered a lovely sketch of an English cottage. "No, it was Anne Marks" Could have knocked me down with a feather! Evidently the line work in my zendala can be classed as drawing. The judge was impressed with the evenness. Freehand of course. (Thats why its not perfect ha ha). So here's a picky to prove it and a photo of me demonstrating. SOOOO much interest in zentagles! Bertie did get a Highly Commended award for her 'Teaset" . She won't mind if I put it here though its not a great shot due to reflections. Good that zentangling is now winning awards here hey!

canvas tangles for art show

I've been flat out trying to get some canvases completed for Yaragon Art Show on this weekend. I need to deliver them tomorrow morning. Happily I completed them this afternoon. All I need to do now is get hubby to put on the wires and screws. He was going to buy them when he was out shopping. But he forgot. Oh well, guess I can whizz out first thing in the morning and buy them.
I did two zendalas 2x2 feet, using Sakura gelly roll pens. They were great to use, better than markers! Occasionally the lines would wobble due to the canvas uneven surface despite coating with lots of gesso. I did a small one which wasn't crash hot as I made some mistakes, then decided to cover the mistakes with black acrylic paint. Over that I used white gouache paint for the tangles. After I added black tangles around that square it looked worse, so did some light white washes over that!! talk about experimentation!! Anyway, I like the 2 big ones fortunately.
 Ive been asked to demonstrate zentangling at the show, so that will be a first for me!!

night zendalas

Completed some more zendals. The second was mostly done while I was supervising the art teachers' exhibition, I just finished it tonight. Whilst these are small (3 1/2" diam) I enjoy them because I don't know what comes next and they can be done in a few hours.

Developing Images (2)

Yesterday I was struggling to get my material loaded. I'm not very knowledgable about web pages. Then I had the idea to scan everything and then they would be in My pictures, and classed as a "picture" even if it was text, so here goes...........................

Phew, made it! I found that the two A4 images are too pale when put together to post, so will post them in two halves, and you can print and piece them together. The art works not brilliant, but I.m sure whoever has a go working through the exercise will get the gist of what its about and have some fun. Love to see anyones results. This was directed to year 11's.

Wouldn't you know it! My "Final " is still at school!! Duh. I'll send it with my next post. sorry about that, but something for you to look forward to.

DEVELOPING IMAGES

"Developing images using the elements and principles of design."
This exercise was part of my first Professional Development to some other Art teachers. I thought some may enjoy working through it. The idea behind it was two fold, 1) make the students aware of how an element can effect an image 2) introduce students to abstract designs.
First the instructions and secondly my example of the exercise.
Later:: seems what I posted didnt post ! I will try again tomorrow but now I must get tea!!

night zendala #3.

I've started calling my little zendalas "night" ones as I do the while I watch TV! Pleased with this 3rd one.

Think I might make some greeting cards with it!!

My session teaching the Art teachers yesterday went well. They all enjoyed the time and learnt something new yet very relevant. I will share what I did soon for those interested. Busy today. I have 3 canvas tangles to create in a week for the Yaragon Art show. Decided I want to do a zendala for two of them, which I will add a border to, else would be too big!! This time I gave the canvas two coats of gesso before working on them.