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30 Tuesday Jul 2019

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, Mandala, Mandalas, Zentangles

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art, collage, gallery, Mixed Media, painting, paintings, patterns, Zendala, zentangle, Zentangle Inspired Art, Zentangles

I have created an updated gallery on my Jeanette Clawson Art blog. I hope you stop by and see what I’ve been up to.

Lakeside Zendala

18 Tuesday Jun 2019

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, Mandala, Mandalas, Meditation Collage, Zentangles

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Donation, Sheboygan Visual Artists, SVA, Zendala, zentangle, Zentangle Inspired Art, Zentangles, ZIA

Something new posted on my art blog.Lakeside Zendala 7

Four Years

02 Sunday Jul 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, Flower of the Day, Gratitude journal, Mandalas, Photographs, Thursday Doors, Zentangles

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100 Mandalas, Art Journal Every Day, Artist Trading Cards, Cee's Photo Challenge, Claudia McGill, doors, Flower of the Day, flowers, Norm 2.0, Zentangle Inspired Art

WordPress has kindly reminded me that I have now been blogging on Lunanista for 4 years. It started as an easy communication with a geographically distant friend and has become so much more.

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This was the beginning of my altered art gratitude journal. I was telling my friend about my art journal and she wanted to see pictures and here they all are after so many posts. The first year I had 269 visitors and at first I was mystified about how they found me. Since then I have found some wonderful groups that have helped me connect with people who have similar interests and concerns.

mandala 41 in progress on tissue

My main Zentangle connection came from Laura Harms the CZT Diva, long before I considered becoming a CZT. And Kathryn Costa got me started on the 100 Mandala Challenge!

rose and sky

An early photography influence and the flower of the day Diva is Cee’s Photography.

artist trading cards

My new friend Claudia McGill turned me on to making Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) and inspired me with her painting and poetry.

Providence Biltmore CZT 27 letterbox

And most recently I have discovered others who are as crazy about photographs of doors as I am! Thanks Norm 2.0!

Want to hear something else that’s kind of crazy? I have had 1,679 visitors so far this year! I have been so grateful for this blog that started as a record of my gratitude and a way to deal with pain and disability. It became the practice ground for my life as an artist! Thank you for all your likes and comments. I appreciate every one. Please check out my professional art blog at Jeanette Clawson Art! Let’s make something beautiful!

Diva Challenge 321: Draw with your Left Hand

19 Monday Jun 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Zentangles

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DC321, Diva's Challenge, Zentangles

I used to try to be ambidextrous, but I haven’t worked on it lately. I’m pretty rusty, but after a bit my strait lines got better. I drew the initial circle with my right hand (actually traced around a container). Curved lines are more challenging and the smaller circles turned out a little wonky. The Diva gave us a great challenge.

DC321

For more results from the challenge check out the Diva’s blog.

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New Coloring Page! Diva Challenge 318

02 Friday Jun 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Zentangles

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bookmarks diva challenge

The only way to get this coloring page is to order one of my other pages from Etsy. I will send you this page as a thank you gift.

The orange and blue bookmark is a diptych – the 2 halves mirror each other. This was an interesting challenge and fun to do. Check out other tangled diptychs at the Diva’s Blog.

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Diva Challenge 316

15 Monday May 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Zentangles

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DC316, Diva Challenge, Diva's Challenge, Punzel, tangle patterns, Tangles, Zentangles

The Diva challenged us to use stripes as our string. Usually I kind of do stripes, but they are all circles. It was interesting to do some straight ones. I love the tangle pattern Punzel and started with that. I tried to alternate straight lines with curves and added a little drama here and there.

DC316

If you want to see more Zentangle® fun check out the Diva’s blog.

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Diva Challenge 315 and another Mother’s Day Card

08 Monday May 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Zentangles

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Card, Diva Challenge, Diva's Challenge, Greeting Card, molygon, Mother's Day, Zentangles

DC315

The Diva challenged us to use Molygon, which is a tangle I don’t really love. I have been wanting to try Drawings and I thought they would go together, but then it got too busy after I added some Fescue, Msst, and Well. I wasn’t happy with how this tile turned out, but I liked Drawings and Molygon together enough to put them on my mother’s day card for my mother. I tried to keep the Molygons larger and that seemed to help.

mothers day

I hope you have some time this week to share some love with your mother or a mother you know and love. To see other Zentangle® Art check out the Diva’s blog.  Have a beautiful day!

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Arting from Acrylics to Zentangle

05 Friday May 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, Zentangles

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100 Mandalas, acrylic paint, collage, Derwent Inktense, inspiration, Watercolor pencils, Zentangles, ZIA

Got a start on my Mother’s Day Cards.

a quick note

Added some Derwent Inktense to the Zentangle® Inspired Art. Not sure if its done yet.

After this I was really itching to do some collage. I’m going to do another painting redo. I got too busy to show you how my last one turned out.

The original painting from a class I took was a sunset winter landscape in shades of blue and orange/yellow – not really my style, but nice enough. I did some collage on top and then added a tissue paper mandala and did some embellishing and here it is. It is getting toward what I want. I learned a little about doing detailed drawing on tissue paper and then putting it on a colorful background – it gets totally muddled. In any case I’m counting it as mandala #40.

mandala 40

So here is the first step of my next try. I have a landscape that I started, but it didn’t go quite right.

landscape redo

So now I’m off to collage over this. I hope you have a beautiful day!

Certified Zentangle® Teacher Seminar #27

04 Thursday May 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Art, Zentangles

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Certified Zentangle Teacher, CZT27, Tangles, Zendala, Zentangle Method, Zentangle Tile, Zentangles

So here is the story of the wonderful seminar I attended last week. We checked in to the Providence Biltmore on Sunday afternoon and had time to display any artwork we brought and check out the Zentangle® store. In the evening we had our first session and it was a basic introduction to the Zentangle® method of drawing. We completed this tile.

tile 1

A tile is the name for these specially made 3.5″ paper squares that are made of high quality watercolor paper. They make it really easy to work with the Pigma Micron pens, graphite and tortillion to create beautiful designs. This tile teaches some of the basic concepts of the Zentangle® method and 4 tangle patterns. The patterns all have whimsical names and these are called Crescent Moon, Florz, Printemps, and Hollibaugh. I will be teaching this class at the Morristown and Morris Township Public Library on Tuesday, June 13th and would love to see you there!

One of the fun things we did was to place all of our tiles into a mosaic so we could see the variety of all our interpretations of the instructions. This is part of the Zentangle® method. It represents the 93 people who attended the seminar.

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On Monday morning we did another tile and learned more about practicing the Zentangle® method and some new patterns. This set up the stage for how we proceeded until Wednesday afternoon. Here are the rest of the tiles in the order they were created.

tile 2
tile 3
Tile 4
tile 5
tile 6
tile 7
tile 8
tile 9
tile 10
tile 11
tile 12
tile 13
tile 14
tile 15

As you can see not all the tiles are the same size, shape, or color of paper. There are 3 different kinds of paper, but they are all good quality paper. We got to play with the range of products that the Zentangle® store has to offer. We also got to play with a variety of pens and graphite. They also offer some fun small tiles, called Bijou tiles, and triangle tiles called 3Zs. They allow you to make even quicker little bits of art or to play with components of different patterns to see how they can work together. All in all there was a lot to learn and a lot of classes that I hope to teach! I’ll keep you updated as I have things scheduled.

Here are my mosaics of my tiles from the whole thing. It was a lot of art and I wasn’t able to finish it all during the seminar. There are actually 2 that I haven’t finished yet, but here they are.

other shapes mosaic

main mosaic

I hope you make or find something beautiful today!

Providence, RI: CZT#27

03 Wednesday May 2017

Posted by Jeanette Clawson in Photographs, Thursday Doors, Zentangles

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bridge, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Cee's Photo Challenge, Certified Zentangle Teacher, Church, CZT, Norm 2.0, Providence, Rhode Island, Thursday Doors, Unitarian, Which Way Challenge

Here is the inspiring location for the 27th Certified Zentangle® Teacher training seminar that I attended last week. Tomorrow I plan to have a Thursday Doors post and a post all about the wonderful seminar and the art I created while there. In the meantime, here is the class photo.

Image may contain: one or more people, people sitting, people standing and indoor

You can also see the gorgeous ballroom at the Providence Biltmore. I have quite a few photos of the hotel, our views from the hotel, and the neighborhoods near the hotel. It really is a lovely city.

Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city overview (2)
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 foggy view
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 view with fog
Providence Biltmore CZT 27

These are the views from my lovely suite that I shared with an artist named Donna from Montana and some of the views are from the hotel’s banquet dining room. We had some lovely foggy/raining days that were perfect for arting inside.

Providence Biltmore CZT 27 another ceiling
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 base of glass elevator
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 ceiling
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 inside ballroom doors
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 inside ballroom
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 letterbox
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 mezzanine architectural details
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 mezzanine
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 mike on mezzanine

Here are some views from the inside of the hotel. I thought about saving the letter box “door” for a solo spot on the Thursday Doors post, but I have too many interesting doors that I collected on this trip! So I will share a few today and the rest tomorrow. There may be some redundancy in the posts, but when interesting architecture is the subject can a view be seen too many times?

Providence Biltmore CZT 27 (2)
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views 4
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views arch 2
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views arch
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views baptist church 2
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views baptist church
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views bridge 1
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views bridge
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views first unitarian church doorknob
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views first unitarian church inside organ
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views first unitarian church inside pulpit
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views first unitarian church inside window
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views first unitarian church magnolia
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views first unitarian church neighbor
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views first unitarian church steeple
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views first unitarian church
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views gondioliers
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views hotel from plaza
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views kennedy plaza 2
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views kennedy plaza and mike
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views kennedy plaza
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views old house gate
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views old house
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views river beauty
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views ship weathervane
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views Steven Hopkins House
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views with tulips
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 city views
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 fence art detail
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 fence art view
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 fence art
Providence Biltmore CZT 27 wicked awesome light fixture

I love the “wicked awesome” light fixture at the bottom of the mosaic. Also, you can see some public art that is painted on the fences around the plaza. It was really hard to photograph, but so cool to see as you walked past it! There are gondolieri, bridges, and tulips adorning the river. This is going to serve as another Which Way Challenge post for Cee. At the corner of Benefit and Benevolent Streets is the Unitarian Church with it’s beautiful magnolia tree. The very first Baptist church in this country is also featured above. That is all for today. I’m still pretty worn out from a very full week, last week.

I hope you have a beautiful day.

 

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