Skip to content

TangleatioNZ

Mindfulness through the Zentangle® Method

  • Shop
    • Products by category
      • Tiles
      • Tools
      • Books
      • Videos
    • Products by tag
      • 3z
      • apprentice
      • bijou
      • black
      • gelly
      • opus
      • original
      • pen
      • pencil
      • pre-strung
      • renaissance
      • round
      • set
      • square
      • white
      • zendala
    • My account
    • Cart
    • Checkout
  • Tuition & Workshops
    • Videos & Online Lessons
      • Prep for online lessons
    • One-off scheduled sessions
    • Longer Courses
    • Venues
      • Online with Zoom
      • Courses at Risingholme
      • Courses at The Drawing Room
  • My Tangles
  • Articles
    • News
    • Tiles
    • Tips & Tricks
    • Mindfulness
    • Subscribe to emails
  • Projects
    • Wreathes
    • Wall Tangling – next event coming in July!
    • Links & other useful stuff
  • Contact me
    • Privacy Policy

Images

Tips & Tricks

Pen Care

October 20, 2021October 20, 2021 IldicaImage

This information came from the Sakura of America website, but the information is great, so I have replicated it here, hopefully the more you know the more it helps look after your pens. (Note though – I have had success with putting Gelly rolls in hot water for a short while to get them going… Continue reading Pen Care

Tips & Tricks

The Aura of an aura

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021 IldicaImage

“The distinctive atmosphere or quality that seems to surround and be generated by a person, thing or place”. One of the main enhancement techniques is adding an ‘Aura’ and what a powerful technique it is. It gives a bridge, a gap, a space, a pause between a line or section or tangle. Here’s some techniques/… Continue reading The Aura of an aura

Tips & Tricks

Grid based tangles – ways to play

September 2, 2021September 2, 2021 IldicaImage

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, you find it attached to the rest of the world.” John Muir One of nature’s grid which influenced a thought or two about grid based tangles. You can have a grid which looks like it’s straight out of a maths exercise book (and has been drawn… Continue reading Grid based tangles – ways to play

Tips & Tricks

Switching the Elements

August 31, 2021August 31, 2021 IldicaImage

Thinking about the wonderful simple strokes that make up Zentangle lines – a dot . a curve C, a double curve S, and a line I. Spend a bit of time thinking about the fun you could have switching them up. A simple way to create some tangleations (variations of the tangle) is by switching… Continue reading Switching the Elements

News

Wall Tangling in Christchurch

August 24, 2021August 30, 2021 IldicaImage

Have you ever wanted to draw on the wall? TangleatioNZ and Life in Vacant Spaces have joined together for a creative community project over five days in September, to ‘tangle’ some patterns on the wall at LiVS’s site in Waltham. So….. Do you tangle? Have you considered going BIG scale? – If you already tangle, come and… Continue reading Wall Tangling in Christchurch

Tips & Tricks

A simple play with the Method

August 24, 2021August 24, 2021 IldicaImage

As New Zealand moved into lockdown having been free for 6 months, I thought I’d head back to making things simple. So a nudge to not making life complicated, something to do when you headspace isn’t quite focused. One tile, one tangle, often known as a Mono-tangle. It’s an ideal vehicle for going back to… Continue reading A simple play with the Method

Pens & Inks
Tips & Tricks

Pens & Inks

October 14, 2020November 15, 2020 ConorImage

Thought it would be a little bit of fun to explain what exactly a ‘pigment’ ink is, and why it’s the best ink for tangling. A little background – there are two types of colourant in ink  – dye and pigment, and either of these two can be used in a carrier/binder, be that oil,… Continue reading Pens & Inks

Tools for Colour Tangling
Tips & Tricks

Tools for Colour Tangling

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 IldicaImage

The Zentangle Method is about reducing the decision making to make it easier to flow, and therefore  ‘relax’ as you are drawing.  Concentrating your focus on one elemental line, where it is going, here and now,  not worrying about the outcome or the bigger picture.  However, one thing starts to come up, people love a… Continue reading Tools for Colour Tangling

Glossary
Tips & Tricks

Glossary

June 16, 2020February 2, 2021 IldicaImage

Have been wanting to get this reference online for a wee while now – hope this list helps you with the ‘plain’ and the ‘quirky’ tangling terminology! Anything is possible…one stroke at a time! ® This is a core Zentangle principle. Concentrate on making a simple line in the here and now. Don’t worry about… Continue reading Glossary

News

Zentangle Wall

February 24, 2020February 24, 2020 IldicaImage

Fantastic fun on a large scale – Anne Toth, Beate Winkler and Ildica Boyd – all got together for this combined works of wall tangling in Auckland.

Posts navigation

Older posts

Zentangle® Supplies

I’m an authorised reseller of genuine Zentangle® products & Sakura pens.


Your Basket

Product categories

  • Books (3)
  • Digital (4)
  • Gifts (1)
  • Tiles (31)
  • Tools (24)

Product tags

3z apprentice artist bijou black blue book brown cream gelly gold green grey mixed opus orange original pen pencil pre-strung purple rectangular red renaissance rose round sakura set silver square stump tag tags tile tortillon white zendala

Upcoming Courses

  • Monthly Tangle on June 10, 2022 9:30 am
  • Next Steps Zentangle – Afternoons on June 15, 2022 12:30 pm
  • Next steps – Zentangle – Evenings on June 16, 2022 6:30 pm
  • Introduction to Zentangle – Evenings on July 27, 2022 6:30 pm
  • Introduction to Zentangle – Afternoon on July 28, 2022 12:30 pm

Recent Posts

  • Pen Care October 20, 2021
  • The Aura of an aura September 15, 2021
  • Grid based tangles – ways to play September 2, 2021
  • Switching the Elements August 31, 2021
  • Wall Tangling in Christchurch August 24, 2021

Archives

  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • October 2020
  • June 2020
  • February 2020
  • November 2018
  • April 2018
  • July 2017
  • May 2017
Hosted & developed by cbIT | All content © 2016-2022 Ildica Boyd