Spring has sprung and so has Kensington Library Zentangle class.   Our class today was working on gray tile, with black micron pen, white jelly roll, shading, and a bit of coloring.   Unfortunately, the library miss printed the date of class.  For all those that showed up a week early I'm sorry for the inconvenience of your time.  Two lucky participants joined me with this fun class with lots of technique and implements. Tangles:  Crescent Moon, Bales, Meer, Tipple, Knightsbridge, Printemps, Knase, Tentoculous, Vega, Henna Drum, and Huggins. Nex ..read more

 The Rancho Santa Fe Library welcomed me back to share the Zentangle Art Method with twelve wide- eyed participants.  The library is located 20 miles north of San Diego in a quaint little town.                                  Today in class I taught a basic Zentangle tile.  Teaching the history, theory, philosophy in the way the co-founders design the art method. You don't get it till you do it. Zentangle Art Method is a meditative art method that is easy to do and creates beautiful mages by d ..read more

 A beautiful Saturday this afternoon at Kensington Library, San Diego, Calif..  This location is so class to the San Diego Zoo, thought we would tangle a Zebra for our Zentangle class today. Ben Kwok created this outline for the class today.  He has many coloring books with amazing outlines. Our tangles today were: Keeko, Stripping, Onamato, Zander, Printemps, Knightsbridge, Jetties, Reticulated, Tipple, Barber Pole, Hollibaugh, Knase, and Zebra. Nine of us enjoyed the time spent together learning some old and new tangles.  Fun Zebra facts: Zebras are black with w ..read more

 More Zentangle classes coming in Feb, March, Apri to Kensington Library Dates:  Check calendar on blog for picture 2/22/25 @ 2-4   Zebra will be tangled 3/22/25 @ 2-4   Gray Spring Bunny will be tangled 4/12/25 @ 2-4   Faux Leather Bookmark will be tangled Only 10 seats, register with library by calling:  619/533-3974 Please call if you need to cancel.  There is a waiting list ..read more

 HAPPY NEW YEAR to all the tanglers out there that love Zentangle. January class at Kensington Library, this cute little library in Hillcrest, San Diego, we created a ZIA (Zentangle Inspired Art) in the likes of a hot air balloon scene. Eight happy tanglers joined in to fill our scene with fun tangles. Thanks to Friends of Kensington Library for supporting Zentangle classes. Don't forget to join Friends of libraries to continue getting free classes brought to your library.   Only $10 a year ..read more

 My four-year-old grandson, Bryce, goes to Pepper Drive Elementary School and is in T-K.  I help out in class every Thursday. For the holidays, I brought a fun hand puppet reindeer class to add to the Christmas fun.  The kids loved it.   ..read more

 Since the epidemic, I returned to Kensington Library in Hillcrest. San Diego, Cali.  The class was a ZIA (Zentangle Inspired Art) creating some gift tags for the holidays.  New and familiar faces from the past classes was exciting.   Next class, January 18th, for Hot Air Balloon ZIA class. Call to register only 10 seats ..read more

It's been since the pandemic that I had taught a classroom of interested students.  I had been restricted to Zoom and private classes.   After teaching at the old library in a small, tiny area in main library, it was quite nice to have a community room to spread out and share the Zentangle method.  My first visit to this beautiful new library since they remodeled - was so exciting.   Together, 24 participants gathered to learn about this new meditative art, Zentangle.  I shared the basic class of learning how to apply "tangles" to your art piece and create ..read more

 You can't say it doesn't rain in Southern California.  It's an unusual rainy day.  Gloomy and early,  I head off to my 8am private class at Tina's in Del Mar.  I love the one-on-one classes to share an Introduction to Zentangle class.  I always wait for the ah ha moment when they see it - the magic of Zentangle.   Basic Zentangle is learning about the string, tangles, and shading, and the meditative feeling while tangling.  Our tangles today were Flux, Printemps, Crescent Moon, Hollibaugh with some Tipple, and Poke Root. Tina's very first Zent ..read more

December 11th, I traveled by Zoom to Denver, Colorado for a Zentangle class.  Kids from 5-12 years old joined me hosted by Arapahoe Library. There was a hint of snow in Denver left on the ground from past snowfall while I was here in San Diego, California with a warm day of 75 degrees.  I still have a bucket list of having a "white" Christmas someday.  Usually San Diego Christmas days are around 75-80 degrees. The librarian's Heather and Ashley hosted our class, and we choose a Zentangle snowflake greeting card as our project.  The library does a very nice job of material ..read more