I recently attended TangleU, a continuing education seminar for Certified Zentangle Teachers (CZTs) in Santa Fe, NM, at the Loretto Inn and Spa. One highlight of the trip for me was winning the grand prize, a Tombow Storage Tote Bag for Dual Brush Pens and Arts and Crafts Supplies that was filled with many great Tombow art supplies! All loaded up, it was fully a $120 value. I had been thinking about buying one before I even won it and, as I expected, I now find myself using the Tombow Storage Tote Bag daily. My review may help you learn if it is something you’ll want to buy. [Read more…]
Archives for May 2015
What can Zentangle do for you?
Let Me Tell You How Zentangle Found Me…
… and how it has changed my life, then you might check it out to see what can Zentangle do for you too! Quite possibly it will change yours! I had been searching for a creative artistic outlet for years. I tried watercolor, acrylics, pastels, markers, chalk, colored pencils, journaling, cut paper, coloring books and more to no avail. I felt like I was not talented enough and that my creations were not worthy of being called art. That has all changed. One day while in Book-n-Brush in Chehalis, WA buying my sixth or seventh coloring book by Sue Coccia, my husband asked, ‘So what is Zentangle about?’ I dismissively told him, ‘Oh, it is a scam.’ Boy, was I so wrong! Knowing little about what I was saying, I continued, ‘They want you to buy books 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. and order their supplies to do more art.’ He asked me, “So, what is so different about buying this series of books? Aren’t you doing that now!” I felt embarrassed. It was true, I had been buying a series of books coloring books, and my creative juices were just not being satisfied, but I was experiencing ‘flow’. And there’s more… [Read more…]