DaVinci Zendala Class

Today Art Club members and I had a fantastic class on how to create this beautiful Zendala inspired by Leonardo da Vinci and the Zentangle's Zen Again 2021 class inspired on that same topic.

We started by exploring the Flower of Life pattern - in Zentangle lingo also known as Quandary.

We then moved on to the crazy Rixty contraption - a tree or something - developed by Maria Thomas for Zen Again.

Added Narwal (Sam Taylor) and Gourdgeous (Zentangle) and started to add detailed shading:

Here’s the final picture again:

And here are some variations I had created before class:

And here is a partial mosaic of the pieces made by Art Clubbers who attended the live class on zoom.

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