Hello everyone, my name is Molly.- Hi, this is Martha.
Welcome to the Zentangle project pack series. This lesson is part of project pack #4.
Project pack #4 was designed around a specific project that we are calling the Zentangle spinner.
We are using our annual 12 days of Zentangle series to share 12 consecutive days of lessons with you
to guide you along in filling this spinner with tangles.
Today is the sixth day in the series but if you are watching these after the day they are posted
you can easily do this lesson out of order.
So today we are going to guide you through filling one wedge of your spinner with some tangles,
and me and Martha are gonna work together and Martha's gonna get started.
- All right so we're going to work on a fresh spinner here.
So you may have some of these wedges filled in already
and it doesn't matter which one you want to start on. I'm gonna work on this one right here, L and M.
So I'm gonna put my tools aside and just have my Micron 01
ready to go,
and I'm gonna start close to the center here in this orangy-colored, salmon colored wedge
and I'm doing a tangle called Swarm.
That's S W A R M and it's it's a tangle that we don't play around with too much
so we thought we'd bring it out to play today. So here we go.
Swarm uses straight lines only and the key to this tangle is to keep your spacing as uniform as possible.
So you can watch me first and then join along. I'm gonna do a straight line here,
and then I'm gonna draw aura lines slowly getting smaller.
So the ultimate shape I end up with is a triangle.
And then turning my spinner slightly
I'm going to draw an aura around one long side
and then continue with my auras like that to form another triangle.
-It's sort of like drawing Tripoli, but you're making the triangles out of these like sort aura'd lines.
-Yeah, I don't know it reminds me a little bit of Indy-Rella too but with straight lines
So maybe that'll help you as you're going along.
-What's also cool about this tangle, and there's only a few like this,
is that no twolines ever touch, which I always think is kind of cool.
Most of the time in our tangles were joining strokes together tomake shapes,
and these all remain sort ofby themselves but they create these sort of contour triangular shapes.
And you'll see that it's not just the spacing within this triangle that forms,
it's the space in between and that in the end creates another pattern. -This is a great texturing tangle.
you can definitely put this in the background of some tiles that you work on
and it shades up really nice too.
So now you have that tiny - you can fit one tiny triangle in? - Yeah I'm gonna get a small one.
- Very cool. - And you'll see that like a lot of our other tangles you're not really aiming for perfection
because it will just become a texture in the background.
Or a swarm. - Or a swarm filling your background.
So these texturing tangles work well to just really just spread the entire space you have right?
mm-hmm.
I'm kind of digging this spinner. It spins really easily.
It's kind of fun to explore some tangles that we don't use very often.
Absolutely.
Very cool. I love like the bits of negative space that start to become more apparent
as she fills in different spaces.
I'm pretty filled up there now.
And you know, with the color in the background
you can certainly use your own judgment on how you want to shade or if you want to shade at all,
but I feel like adding a little graphite around the edges.
Might just kind of reinforce that texture background.
- And we're shading ours now because we're trying to give you ideas of how you might shade each tangle,
but if you want to wait till your whole spinner is done and then add your graphite
that's totally fine too. So you can sort of lock in this for later or you can explore it now.
-And hopefully your spinner is nice and dry after you have added your color
but I want to be gentle on the paper. You don't want to push so hard.
- Ooh I like that highlight tin the middle, that's cool.
- Yeah so I'm just leaving a center space
kind of with no graphite, and it sort of already has a little bit of a lighter tone from the watercolor.
Cool. I like that. - Right, you're next. -
OK, so I am going to work in this next space up here
and I get to do a tangle that's actually one of my favorite
which is kind of fun I put it in almost every one of my
- actually, I wanted to do Pokeroot but Molly said ...
Oh really? - I'm going to do Pokeroot.
-That's how it always is. The younger one usually gets what she wants!- Okey Dokey!
So Pokeroot is fun to kind of grow out of a certain tangle or - sorry -
grow out of a certain corner and that way you can kind of play with it,
sort of like going towards the center, or going towards another side.
So when I draw my Pokeroot I start with a little stem like that.
I usually like to put a little bit of a curve in it and to me that adds some character instead of a straight stem.
It adds a little bit of just life to it. And then at the end of the stem
I sort of want to cap it off again with not just a straight line but just add a little tiny arc to it
and adds a little kind of interest. And then what I'm going to do is draw my berry.
and what I like to tell people is when I'm drawing my berry
is that I want that sort of stem to be poking through right in the middle of that berry.
and I want my berry to be kind of round, circular.
So that's one berry. Then each new one that I draw is gonna kind of be growing off the others.
so I think I'm gonna work just from one corner here, what do you think?
-Sure. - And they can kind of vary in size. I always think
that Pokeroot really adds to a tile and it's funny, when I see kind of artwork here and there if I see Pokeroot,
I know that that person at some point in time was a Zentangle person,
because it's this kind of unique approach.
-Well it's it's true it's a pattern that really was born with Zentangle in mind.
It did not come from inspiration other than nature. Well I don't think I've ever seen it anywhere else.
-Right, it's so fun and Pokeroot, we probably told this story a million times,
but it actually is inspired by the actual poke root plant and which grows here in New England
and it's one of those crazy plants that grows like in the crack of sidewalks, like it doesn't need much.
It just shows up. And I think it ends up being quite beautiful,
but a lot of people call it a weed. I don't call it a weed.
When you see those around, we just sort of let them be,
and let them take over their little section of sidewalk.
Kind of like this one's taken over a wedge there.
- Trying trying to figure out how much black I want to my background.
So a lot of times with my poker tile go back in and ink in these little interstices:
And I think I'm gonna do it and go for this little inking in area.
It's gonna add some contrast on my tile. So all right so that looks pretty good.
It's a nice big space for some Pokeroot.
I'm gonna add a little bit of graphite here. -And like we were saying before,
if you want to wait to add your shading to the end that's fine.
We're just sort of showing you some of the options.
- I'm really playing with the that tangle itself.
Martha played with sort of the whole shape
but I'm playing with all the little spaces that the tangle actually opens up.
So kind of seeing which these berries sort of overlap and adding a little bit graphite here and there,
and then taking my tortillon and, not too aggressively.
I'm just inviting that graphite into the paper
because you don't want to...
-Well the watercolor really changes the surface a little bit.
-A little bit, yeah. It akes it a little bit more vulnerable so you want to be careful.
And we sort of did this a little differently.
-When we did our ribbon project we added the color at the end
but we wanted to offer you kind of two different approaches,
and so if you stillwant to add the color at the end that's a option too.
So that's Pokeroot. That's a good one.
You ready for the next one? -Yeah. So I am going to start the next one.
And I love this little space to put a border in here. And the tangle we're going to put in here
isn't traditionally a border but we like to break tradition a lot.
-It's not even a traditional tangle. -It's not? -Unless you need it.
-So the tangle we're talking about is Bronx Cheer and it's a beautiful,
I guess relative to our no mistakes philosophy.
And so a lot of times we recommend using a Bronx Cheer
when you're trying to cover something up,
or you're trying to kind of make something look new. -I guess that's a good way to put it.
-So traditionally Bronx Cheer ends up looking a lot like a raspberry,
or is inspired by a raspberry, but we're going to use the texture or
the strokes of Bronx Cheer, but we're going to put it into a border.
OK? So here's how it goes. So Bronx Cheer is these kind of dark circles
that go round and round and round, and then we leave a little bead at the top of white.
And you just want to smush them together and go round and round and round till you get to the center.
-It doesn't even have to be in the center. It can be anywhere on that piece of caviar.
And I think it's almost better if they kind of overlap the actual outlines of the border,
and I like a little bit of white space in my strokes too so I don't want it to be like completely inked in circle.
I like this sort of like you can see that I was going around and around and around toward the center.
All right do you want to finish up this? -Sure. -These types of sort of really repetitive motions.
It's a good idea to remember to lighten up on your grip.
Take a deep breath.
Your pen's not going to jump out of your hand.
So this is kind of fun because we gave everybody in the project packs two spinners
so we thought they can follow along in the first one
and do all the tangles that we're guiding you through and showing you.
But then on the second one you can really personalize it
and add all the tangles that are your favorites or the ones that you want to
try to use more, or maybe the tangles that you've come up with.
Or whatever it is it'll be like a custom tangle spinner. so I'm actually really excited to see those ones.
-Borders are such a great sort of accessory to add to a tile.
And you know we often think of using a fragment,
which is a great source but this is just a completely different approach-
Right.
And I don't think obviously we need to add much shading to that right now but we're gonna.
-We can do something fun later. -We'll do something.
-Because it's pretty inky now anyway, we want to let it dry for a little bit.
-It does look like caviar. -I know.
So we've got two spaces left. I'm gonna go on the left. Is that alright with you? -Yep.
And maybe it's only fitting that I am going to do a tangle called Huggins.
And if you didn't already know that's my last name, actually.
And Huggins is like a grid tangle except we work on...
we have to envision our grid,so we're not actually going to put it down there.
We're going to draw a series of circles and make sort of like a pegboard.
So I'm gonna try to evenly space my pegs on this square
and I'll show you one way to do it, if you want to follow along
I am going to start with...I want to kind of copy this size here
and draw a circle and I'm going to use that size and I'm going to put one in each corner.
And if you've never done Huggins you may try this on either another tile or paper
or something before doing it on your spinner because I think it takes a little bit of focus.
-Yeah, I mean and that's a good point Molly,
you could do that with any of these tangles that were teaching
if you're just afraid to make that first mark on this beautiful spinner.
Go ahead and do it on a tile first and then and then go back and and do it as you please.
So to continue my pegboard here, what I want to do is
fit in two more circles evenly spaced along each row and in each column.
So I'm gonna sort of eyeball it.
And you just do your best. -It doesn't need to be exact.-
And of course because we're working on a circle this here is a little bit more space down her
so I'll just evenly space them here, and then the same here.
And on this side.
And then the last step would be to put the last four pegs as you can see them fitting in these columns and rows.
So about here and about here.
So the next stroke that I'm gonna make is it's like a C-stroke,
but we're going to sort of take off and land off these two pegs right here.
I know my mom has said before that she thinks of an old telephone receiver.
You can watch me do one.
See how I started here? I took off on this top peg and I landed on the bottom peg.
It is like a c-shape.
Then I'm gonna do the same thing on the next two but
I'm gonna do it on the opposite side. So I'm gonna come off the top here and land on the bottom.
Opposite side, land on the bottom.
And we're working in a small space here and sometimes if you're just learning this tangle it might be a little easier
to work in a slightly larger space. But that's up to you.
So for the next column we're going to do the opposite.
So I was doing this motion here, and for these two I'm going to connect them on this side,
And then alternate.
-I really like to completely pause in between each stroke,
and that way I can take them all -right- and really look what it where the next stroke is gonna be
and just take my time. And once you get to know Huggins, you go like so
It goes quickly, and it all makes sense. -But when you're first starting out you really want to take your time.
-So I'm gonna go back to the first, do this just like the first row,
and then I do the opposite.
Take off and land.
Take off and land. And now I'll alternate
here
And here, so I guess so that's kind of a cool looking thing. I don't know what it looks like but
it's the next moves that we make that will really sort of bring this tangle to life.
So I'm going to now connect all of the vertical rows again going this way.
I'm going to make my first motion off the top and connect.
Then I'll do the opposite.
I went over the edge a little.
And there.
On the next row again just like I did before.
-And it really does make a difference when you take the time to take off and land from each circle
because you get this sort of fluid effect to your patterns.
-And like Molly said just sort of take a break each time as you see everything.
And you could almost do it in your head first just to make sure:
I don't want to go that way because I'll cross over those lines so you sort of
- Yeah that's sort of -do it in your head first - Yeah, in the air.
That's a good call.
And you know you guys are lucky because
you can stop and rewind and watch this again if you need to.
-This is actually the 12th time she's done this.
-Yes!
-Pretty cool.
-So I mean that's pretty great as is but you know you can add some different elements.
Well maybe what I'll do is I think I'll go in and...See these long sections here.
Right now I see one two three four of them.
I'm gonna just add another layer and aura the inside of each of these long sections.
-I actually really like that with Huggins I think it adds a little.
-Yeah it really does, it brings the pattern. -You know it's like regal to me.
It's funny how such little details make such a big difference.
-And then I'll turn my spinner and do all the long sections again.
-So when I do my custom spinner I think I'll purposely make it a collection of my most favorite tangles
and then the ones that I avoid the most. -Good for you. -Those are my thoughts anyway.
So with my graphite...so we've got these long sections here right,
and I'm gonna add just some shading.
Wherever you have the short sections in here.
And then again you turn it and you go -Right inside the C shape.
-And then with the tortillon on, you just sort of draw it to the center.
-Kind of making sure you leave that unshaded part in the middle right?
-When you turn your artwork you get this new perspective each time.
And so you say oh I forgot to shade that one or I forgot to connect those two pegs.
Anyway it's it's good to give yourself that perspective.
That's a neat Huggins. The spinner is going to be so cool, all filled in. so cool
See? I forgot one.
We do say this a lot, but working with the side of your pencil you get a much softer application of graphite
and it's much easier to blend.
Yeah you don't get that sort of dark line. -Well with a really sharp pencil you can almost dent the paper.
Yeah. -Very cool! There we go. All right, last one.
-OK.
So we have one more space left in the area we planned on doing, and I'm going to do a tangle called Pepper.
And I'm actually gonna put a little bit of a additional string down in mine,
because Pepper is really a tangle that does well in like a circle,
and so I'm gonna actually just sort of like put a big circle in here.
And I'm not worried about it being perfect so I kind of just put a circle in there.
And you could do two small ones or gonna do a big one like I'm doing,
but that's how I'm doing my Peppers. I guess you could put an inked-in circle if you wanted to,
but I prefer to do it this way and usually in a tile with a string
I would search out a circular area to play with Pepper.
So I am going to begin by
putting in these sort of like really skinny wedge-like sort of shapes
that goes right to the about the middle. And I sort of kind of hug it around the edge of that pencil line.
And then I'm going to put a little space and then I'm gonna do another one
of these like sort of wedge shapes, but can you see how I kind of hooked it around?
-That takes a little practice sometimes. -A little bit of practice there, yeah.
I'm gonna turn this around, sorry if I making you dizzy.
-Here you'll notice how she's now approaching it from the center
and so you'll want to try it both ways just to see which feels more natural for your hand.
Sometimes the stroke comes out better coming from one direction or another.
-What's funny is I didn't even realize I was doing it two different ways, Martha.
Isn't that funny. -I thought you deliberately did that.
-Oh well. -I thought that was a really amazing teaching moment.
Just trying to get my tile wrapped around here.
So Pepper was inspired by those old-fashioned peppermint candies
that you may see around still or they're white and pinkish. White and red.
So if you notice, as I get a few going here, I'm sort of like leaving this space in the middle to create an open area.
-You can see an imaginary circle.
-Yeah, that's pretty cool right?
And it's fun to use that pencil string because then you have this sort of like assumed space going on,
It's pretty neat. That's my last one I think.
Which is pretty cool. -It's perfect. -Oh totally! Yeah so here we go.
Here's my Pepper. So I added a lot of ink there, so I'm gonna leave it for one second,
but I had this other thought, Martha, with our Bronx Cheer. -Oh I know.
And so I know you guys didn't get these in your project pack,
but if anybody has a white gelly roll hanging around - It could be any thickness, really.
-Oh yeah totally.
I'm just gonna go into my BronxCheer and sort of add just a few additional -highlights
with the white jelly roll just to accentuate a few of them.
I think it just makes it kind of cool. So it makes them almost raised up. -That is awesome.
-Right? Just a few here and there. I think that'll be cool.
All right now assuming my Pepper is a little bit dry, I'm gonna go around and sort of add a little shading
where that original string line was.
So it really looks like those...
Oh they're totally wrapping over the edge. -Right?
This would make it a very sophisticated Peppermint if you ever saw one like this, so we've already
become evolved from the original peppermint.
That's definitely shading a little bit inside so you're leaving that space for the ink to be over the edge.
All right so that's pretty cool and then I'm just gonna take my tortillon and kind of...
and what's great about this shading is I really can avoid the ink that I was worried about being wet.
So -Yeah, you don't even have to touch it. -Nope.
Well, that is pretty cool, Martha. -So much fun! Nice touch. All right so I think that's that's it.
That's the winning wedge. -What? There's no winners in Zentangle. Stop it! - It's beautiful.
All right, well it's gonna be a cool one. We look forward to playing along with you guys again tomorrow.
That was a good one. Bye.
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