Zentangle Nutcracker at University Community Library

 The Holidays are upon us.  Just a couple weeks left to get your gifts/wrapped, cookies, pies, invitations, and caroling done.

Today was my second Zoom class for the San Diego City libraries since March 2020, after the pandemic hit. Class was at University Community Library in UTC, San Diego, CA.  Thank you to Library Manager, Melissa, for asking me back.  

I thought a Zentangle Nutcracker was appropriate for the season.  About twenty students joined me with instrumental holiday background music to top off this stressful time of year with calm, relaxing, two hours together creating and ZIA (Zentangle Inspired Art). 

Zentangle is a meditative art method that takes the stress out of life while you are drawing. No mistakes, no erasers, no rulers.  I will be back at the library in the near future. 

A couple pic from class.  

Jenny - great!

Judy - love all the bling bling you added.  

Visit your library to see if they have Zentangle classes coming your way for 2022. 
FYI -I'm teaching a Zoom class at a Denver Colorado Library in February. 
Where there's a will, there's a way to share Zentangle.
 Have your library contact me -maseyjanet@gmail.com

 

I'm back, teaching Zentangle at University Community Library

After almost two years shut down from teaching at San Diego Library during this crazy pandemic, finally, I am back at the library to teach Zentangle classes. Thank you to the Melissa, University Community library Manager, for asking me back.  

November 16th, I created a fun tile for my first class back called "stacked books".  Here are a couple of the art pieces from class.

Twenty tanglers joined me for class today.  I am happy to announce one of my students (who joined class), recently completed the four day seminar and is now an officially Certified Zentangle Teacher.  Welcome to a wonderful group of women and men Cailin.

Cailin CZT

Cailin Judy K. your art is always fantastic.

Next Zoom class at University Community Library December 14th, 2021. 
We will be working on a Zentangle (ZIA) Zentangle Inspired Art - Nutcracker.
Register @ https://sandiego.librarymarket.com/events/virtual-zentangle-home-0

 

Olympic Zentangle

 While watching the 2020(21) Olympics this summer, I was inspired to tangle a tile.  

Olympic fun facts: 

The five rings are colored to represent all the counties:
Blue - Australia
Yellow: Asia
Black - Africa
Green - Europe
Red - For North/South America

Which country has hosted the most Olympics?
The United States has hosted or been awarded a total of eight Olympic Games, more than any other country, followed by France with five and Japan with four editions.

What was the first Olympic sport?
The running race known as stadion or stade is the oldest Olympic Sport in the world. It was the only event at the very first Olympics in 776 BCE and remained the sole event at the Games until 724 BCE.

Who is the youngest person to go to the Olympics?
Dimitrios Loundras was one of the first athletes to compete in the Olympic Games when they made their modern debut in 1896. He was 10 years old when he competed in the Summer Olympics in Athens and won a bronze medal with his gymnastics team. He has held the title of youngest Olympic athlete since that time.

During the period 1912-1948, artists of diverse categories, such as musicians, painters, writers, sculptors, and architects competed for medals.

Against popular belief, the gold medal is not made out of pure gold, instead mostly silver since the 1912 Olympics. Today’s gold medal is made from 6 grams of gold, the rest is silver.

You probably have seen athletes biting their Olympics medals. Want to know how this tradition started? It takes us ages back to when merchants used to check the purity of gold by biting it. If there are teeth marks left on the gold coin, then it is not actual gold. As mentioned earlier, gold medals in the Olympics nowadays are merely finished with gold. In the 1904 Olympics, the gold medals were entirely gold.

Antarctica & Africa are the continents where the Olympics have not been held yet.

Pushing boundaries. The youngest known Olympian to take home a medal was 10-year-old Dimitrios Loundras, who finished third in the team parallel bars at the 1896 Olympic Games.

The running race known as stadion or stade is the oldest Olympic Sport in the worl the only event at the very first Olympics in 776 BCE and remained the  until 724 BCE.

Zentangle and Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 Not to get into politics - but RBG has some amazing accomplishments during her life.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg one of only four females Supreme Court Justices in history. 
A couple of her many accomplishments while in office.

-Women have the right to financial independence and equal benefits.

Ginsburg’s work paved the way for the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which passed 
in 1974 and allowed women to apply for bank accounts, credit cards, and mortgages
without a male co-signer. She also helped ensure that women could receive the same
military housing allowances as men, and women are no longer required to pay more
for pension plans than men to receive the same benefits, according to the ACLU.

-Men are entitled to the same caregiving and Social Security rights as women.  
Throughout her career, Ginsburg stressed how gender equality benefits both men and women. 

In 1968, Ginsburg represented Charles Moritz, a man who had never been married and claimed a tax deduction for caring for his mother, according to Smithsonian Magazine. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) denied his deduction because he was a man and unmarried. The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled that the IRS had violated the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution and in 1971 Section 214 of the IRS Code was amended to allow individuals to claim caregiving deductions, regardless of sex.

-Juries must include women.

Today Zoom class, 7/24/21, we thank her for all her efforts for the people. I was suggested to design a class of a famous person.  Jeanette, a student, suggested Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  This class is the design I came up with. 

Tangles:  Ambler, Knightsbridge, Fassett, Inapod, Floatfest, Shattuck, Panthe, C02 

Elyce

Julianna

Monica

Zoom Zentangle Class Zendala (In the round) Swim

 7/10/21, I couldn't resist to share a fun class I designed after San Dieguito Synchronized Swim Team Coach asked me to teach a Zentangle class.  She said the kids had been so stressed out that sitting in on a Zentangle class might relax them from the COVID stress.

This class was created in a Zendala style - which is Zentangle Mendala idea - in the round. I added some swimmers to bring the kids theme in to create interest.

Today's class, Sharon, said she wanted to take this class because it reminded of her swim class that they called each other the "mermaids".  Summer is amongst us and who doesn't love the ocean or pool in San Diego during the summer. 

Elyce

Patricia (on blue cardstock)

Monica

Alex & Cece (9 yrs old)

 

 

Zentangle Flower Collage

6/26/21 - Today's class was all about floral tangles.  Using a collage of boxes we applied floral tangles to give a cool flower collage look.

Using graytone paper/gray cardstock, black pen, white Gelly Roll pen, The white Gelly Roll pen is the shading per se instead of shading with pencil. We did do a little graphite shading to pop a couple tangles out.

We tangled 16 tangles in two hours. Susan, Monica, Patricia, Elyce joined class today.  Fantastic work y'all.  Thanks for forwarding your art Monica and Eylce.

Monica

Elyce

Koi Zentangle Class

 Another fun Zoom class today, 6/5/21.  First I shared a creative way to trace a object and apply on paper.  Then, we applied tangles using the Zentangle Method to add some "POP" to the art.  

A little color goes a long way with the Zentangle art.  The tangles speak for themselves.  

Mother's Day Zentangle Floral Mason Jar

5/8/21  Devon, Kristen and Julie join me to create a floral mason jar greeting card using the Zentangle Method.  I choose to go rustic with the project today.  Off white cardstock, kraft blank envelope 
we added raffia, twine or ribbon to get that country look. 

                                                HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Zoom is hard to get clear pictures of art, but here is the best.

Check out my calendar on Ipad or PC to see my calendar coming up.

Zoom Walk in the Rain 5/22/21

Zoom Koi Fish 6/5/21

Zoom Flower Collage 6/26/21

 

Zentangle Class from a Distance for the White Family

4/24/21, Carol has taken several Zentangle classes from me and thought her family would enjoy learning about Zentangle as a fun family time together.  

Today in class was Carol, her husband Lee,
daughter Cheryl  (from Portland, Oregon) with boyfriend, son 10 and daughter 8 
Marcy (from Anchorage, Alaska) with daughters, 15, 9 and 6. 

Marcy recently had knee surgery on pain meds and was still able to create our project today. By the way, Zentangle is a great pain management therapy.   

With so many different ages in class, I geared this class to the youngest age (6).  This is a class is a favorite for first grade classes, so it was perfect.  Adults also like taking this class because you still learn tangles, but are applied to a "string" that looks like a dragonfly instead of typical abstract string.

Side note:  This family was very colorful - great hair color choices. 

When coloring with Zentangle patterns, you don't need too much color. 
 The patterns speak for themselves.  Just a hint if any, of color does goes a long way. 
This yellow background really does highlight the tangles.  Good job.

Awesome!!!!!

We had some extra time after class so I shared a couple garden themed tangles.  

Thank you Carol for sharing Zentangle with your family.  

 

Zentangle and Covid Masks

4/24/21  The Zentangle class today we used a "string" that looked like someone in the medical profession with a mask on. So easy to create a simple greeting card for a person in your life to say I think you are awesome.

Thank you to all the medical and front line workers for coming to our needs this pandemic.  I just had to create a class that referenced our time during COVID.  A shout all to all that made us safe and helped us heal.

Kids to seniors LOVE how easy Zentangle is.  Zentangle is so easy, you just have to choose some "tangles (that what we call the patterns) and put into sections.  

This pic is Jen and her Mom's art.

Caitlin !!!!!! Love it.

Monica

Fun sharing Zentangle with all of you today.

Why Zentangle?

 

Kids, women, men and seniors 💓LOVE Zentangle

Therapist are telling patients to try Zentangle for therapy.  Zentangle has been proven to benefit, anxiety, depression, chronic medical conditions, bereavement, insomnia, cancer/addiction/anger management therapy, PTSD, ADHD, ADD, essential tremors/Parkinson's Disease (helps eye-hand
co-ordination), self confidence and self-esteem.  In a corporate setting, Zentangle encourages team building and is great for a wellness day.

Zentangle was designed to take the difficulty or "hard" out of art.  The co-founders later found that Zentangle was also meditative. During the process of drawing structured patterns, you relax, focus
and get into a state of well-being - healing art.

While beneficial for all ages (6-100), Zentangle can be especially beneficial for seniors.  Zentangle is a great brain activity while helping to focus and relax.  Zentangle also helps with boredom or waiting in a doctor's office, airport, activity to do with grandchildren, social time with friends to "tangle" and share art pieces.  Zentangle raises self-esteem, confidence and opportunity to bring folks together and meet new friends.  Zentangle is also great for caregivers.  All those long days/nights caring for someone leaves a lot of time on your hands.  You can also tangle with loved ones/patients and bring you closer together.

My name is Janet Masey, Certified Zentangle Teacher since 2014.  I was certified by the founders that designed the art method - Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas.  Many folks think art if difficult.  What to draw/paint?  What paper/media do I use? Pencil or pen?  Colored pencils? Markers? What color?  How many colors?  Where do I put color?  Zentangle using simple materials and can be completed in 15-20 minutes.  Zentangle gives everyone a chance to succeed at art. All you need is 3.5 x 3.5 paper, pencil, pen and patterns. So simple, so easy, just "tangle".

The point of Zentangle is to slow down, take a step back from the mad rush of digital society.  
                    
                           Zentangle motto is "anything is possible, one stroke at a time"

Zero art experience necessary - no erasers, no rulers, no mistakes.  If you can draw a circle and a straight line - you got this.  People tell me "I can't draw".  I love to proved folks wrong.  Zentangle
was designed for those intimidated by art.  

Let me describe a typical Zentangle class. 
When students arrive to class, they will hear instrumental Hawaiian slack key music playing softly in the background.  I ask everyone to take a deep breath and start their Zentangle journey.  The rest of the class is quiet as I instruct how to apply structured patterns they will learn.  When you put paper to pen, you get out of your head (healing art).  That's why Zentangle is called "yoga for the brain".

A few reaction from my students:

"ohhhh, this is cool"
"wow, look what I did"
"best cancer therapy I got"

"this helped me thru two knee replacements"

My favorite story is when a 65 year old student finished my Zentangle class and cried.  She said that early in school a teacher told her never to do art because of how awful her art work looked.  Zentangle was the first time she had tried art since then and was so happy to know - that teacher was wrong. 

Zentangle isn't about the results but the process.  Start your Zentangle journey today and see what all the talks about.  Whether young or old, Zentangle is fun and relaxing.  Look on my calendar to find a class for you.  I teach over 50 different classes.  

Tangle hugs! 

 

Zentangle versus Doodling

 

Zentangle is mindful, doodling is mindless
Sign up for a class from a Certified Zentangle Teacher
and see for yourself the difference between the two.  

COVID Feelings and Zentangle

Zentangle is a meditative, easy-to-do art method that creates beautiful images by drawing structured patterns.  While you are drawing, you relax, focus and get into a state of  well-being - happy place.

Kids LOVE Zentangle.  No experience necessary - no rulers - no mistakes - no erasers. 

When Carol Shear (a teacher from Bird Rock Elementary School in La Jolla, California) that had taken several of my Zentangle classes prior to, asked me if I would teach a Zoom Zentangle class for the third Grade Level, I  quickly responded  "of course".    

The three third grade teachers, Angela Volk, Kim Williams and Carol Shear, had a great idea. They wanted to combine an art class with a writing class. After the Zentangle class the kids were asked -  "what are your feelings behind the mask"? 

I designed a boy/girl template for the kids to "tangle".  The kiddo's drew the same tangles to their art piece.  Great class with about 61 students.  I love sharing Zentangle with the kids.  

Thanks Carol for including me in one of your Zoom and in-school class.  

Maybe you can think of a way to include Zentangle for your classroom? 
Email me how @ maseyjanet@gmail.com

SDSU Detangle with Zentangle

3/22/21, I was asked to teach a Zentangle class for SDSU Allies for Education.

                        SDSU -  AFE's March Mindful Monday Zentangle Event tonight
                   Topic - Zentangle to Detangle

Basic/Introduction to the Zentangle Method was the topic for class today. Sharing the history, philosophy, applications, and steps to create an original Zentangle tile. Zentangle was design for
those intimidated by art.  No rulers, no erasers, no mistakes. This method is different than any
other art media.

                                     When will you Zentangle journey start? 

On the Road Again with Zentangle - VW Bus 3/20/21

 Zooooooooooooooooooooooooom to a dream of traveling soon.  This Zentangle class was inspired as the COVID vaccine might let us see the light at the end of the tunnel.  

Our Zentangle string today looked a lot like a VW bus.  Using the Zentangle Method, we created a ZIA (Zentangle Inspired Art).  Whether you leave black and white, or add a bit of color to our sunset van, the tangles speak for themselves.  Zentangle is interesting and pop any art media piece.