Studio Art: Zentangle Basics

In Studio Art this week we will be learning about the Zentangle drawing technique.  We'll start with the basics and learn a few step by step together then you'll get a chance to choose others freely or create your own.

Here's a third pattern well learn which is a bit more complex but interesting and includes a use of positive and negative space.

Here's a fourth pattern well learn which is a bit more complex but interesting and includes a use of positive and negative space.

And here's the final (and most difficult) Zentangle pattern to learn, it's a bit complex but give it a try and lets see how you do!

A full page of zentangle drawing will be due at later and should include the two styles we learn in class (shown above are some examples) and any others you want to draw.  Below is an demonstration I made for students last year which shows the next step in the process, we'll draw our name and zentangle around it on the first page of our sketchbooks! We'll Zentangle the negative space around a contour drawing of a word, person or object.