Zentangle a Gourd
View a YouTube video. Learn a fun way to add tangles to a Zentangle gourd with Suzanne McNeill.
Every year when I travel to California for the Craft and Hobby Assocation Show I like to plan some special things to do while in the area. Visiting with old friends is always at the top of my list. While visiting Barbara Finwall and Nancy Javier, I detoured on a trip to the Welburn Gourd Farm in Fallbrook, California. It was amazing to be surrounded by thousands of gourds, and difficult to select my favorites. Of course I came away with boxes full... large, small, bottle, pear and kettle gourds.
Barbara, Nancy and I beginning work on our gourds.
That evening Barbara, Nancy and I sat around catching up with each others lives and painting our prize gourds. Turns out gourds are a pretty great surface on which to Zentangle®... all it takes is a little white gesso or acrylic paint applied to the surface. Use a black Micron Pen (I like the 05 and 1 tips) to draw the tangles. the pen tip flows like butter on the gourd surface.
While at CHA I displayed one of the Zentangle gourds I was working on in the Design Originals booth, someone stopped by to comment on it and suggested I take a look at the website Gourd Art Enthusiasts , a few of the gourd artists are beginning to use Zentangle inspired designs. I especially like this one by an amazing gourd artist, Ann Light .
Ann Light - Embellished Burned Zentangle Mask
Ann Light is an award-winning mask maker whose work has been featured on the covers of two national art magazines as well as in newspapers from New England to New Orleans. She sells her work in museum gift shops, a few select galleries, from her website and top juried shows in the East Coast.
Her masks have been showcased in Thomasville’s Ernest Hemingway Collection and purchased by Lee Jofa and Kravet’s Director of Design for their D&D showrooms.
Ann’s work is collected by many visual as well as performing artists. Her largest private collectors are Kirk Peterson, Ballet Master of the American Ballet Theater at Lincoln Center in NY and Boston composer and musician Yale Bebe. The Home News Tribune in their Arts Preview featured Ann as one of “Ten New Jersey Artists Making an Impact. Art critics have described her masks as “solemn, sly and wildly inventive...strikingly primitive and original...strong and contemporary.
Ann Light lives in Morristown, NJ
Zentangle of the week, enjoy and create!!
Zentangle #58
Pyramids
used with permission zentangle.com Zentangle is a registered trademark of Zentangle, Inc.
Every year when I travel to California for the Craft and Hobby Assocation Show I like to plan some special things to do while in the area. Visiting with old friends is always at the top of my list. While visiting Barbara Finwall and Nancy Javier, I detoured on a trip to the Welburn Gourd Farm in Fallbrook, California. It was amazing to be surrounded by thousands of gourds, and difficult to select my favorites. Of course I came away with boxes full... large, small, bottle, pear and kettle gourds.
Barbara, Nancy and I beginning work on our gourds.
That evening Barbara, Nancy and I sat around catching up with each others lives and painting our prize gourds. Turns out gourds are a pretty great surface on which to Zentangle®... all it takes is a little white gesso or acrylic paint applied to the surface. Use a black Micron Pen (I like the 05 and 1 tips) to draw the tangles. the pen tip flows like butter on the gourd surface.
While at CHA I displayed one of the Zentangle gourds I was working on in the Design Originals booth, someone stopped by to comment on it and suggested I take a look at the website Gourd Art Enthusiasts , a few of the gourd artists are beginning to use Zentangle inspired designs. I especially like this one by an amazing gourd artist, Ann Light .
Ann Light - Embellished Burned Zentangle Mask
Ann Light is an award-winning mask maker whose work has been featured on the covers of two national art magazines as well as in newspapers from New England to New Orleans. She sells her work in museum gift shops, a few select galleries, from her website and top juried shows in the East Coast.
Her masks have been showcased in Thomasville’s Ernest Hemingway Collection and purchased by Lee Jofa and Kravet’s Director of Design for their D&D showrooms.
Ann’s work is collected by many visual as well as performing artists. Her largest private collectors are Kirk Peterson, Ballet Master of the American Ballet Theater at Lincoln Center in NY and Boston composer and musician Yale Bebe. The Home News Tribune in their Arts Preview featured Ann as one of “Ten New Jersey Artists Making an Impact. Art critics have described her masks as “solemn, sly and wildly inventive...strikingly primitive and original...strong and contemporary.
Ann Light lives in Morristown, NJ
Zentangle of the week, enjoy and create!!
Zentangle #58
Pyramids
used with permission zentangle.com Zentangle is a registered trademark of Zentangle, Inc.
Posted by Suzanne McNeill at 2/18/2011 11:13 AM 
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Tags: zentangle gourd welburn gourd farm CHA Design Originals micron pen
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Tags: zentangle gourd welburn gourd farm CHA Design Originals micron pen
I soooooo want to learn to do this. I do something a bit similar... but not quite. LOVE it!!! I have a whole journaling page done like it and intend to do more!
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Tina, looks like you already do fabulous cards and paper arts, you can do this! Check out the youtubes for inspiration...then pick up a pen and Zentangle.
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