ZenAgain's DaVinci inspired
This week I participated in the online ZenAgain conference held by Zentangle founders. Four of their sessions were inspired by famous artists. This one was inspired by none other than Renaissance man Leonardo Da Vinci, who kept copious notebooks with designs of his thoughts and inventions.
Zentangle founders guided us in an interesting session where we channeled Da Vinci to see how he would tangle, producing four different designs.
We used Renaissance techniques with brown and black ink, pencil, charcoal pencils over a tan Opus tile. I have to confess I’m not a huge fan of the larger size Opus tiles - one of the things that attracts me the most to the Zentangle method is the use of small tiles, short duration projects. But I tackled it valiantly and even treated the background with colored pencils and some delicate inking to add that Renaissance distressed look.
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This is Jenice Kee's Jeweled Garden, part of Zentangle Beyond Language event. Halfway through, silly me decided to add a hatched ribbon, leaving no room for the other tangles! I like the result anyway, THANK YOU Jenice for a fantastic project.