S U P P L I E S

The book! Zen Mandalas  **  Compass - we have two.  The Staedtler Universal Compass adjusts to many diameters of writing instruments (Glaze pens for example so you don't have to disassemble the darn thing to use a pen that has a thicker barrel) while the Helix is a simple, very inexpensive style that will hold a standard pencil  **  Protractor 

Gelly Roll Glaze pens - we have sets and the clear Glaze pen.  See them all here  **  Other Zentangle supplies!  Books, Pigma pens, writing surfaces and other supplies like blending stumps, pencils, etc 

Speaking of writing surfaces... see the Hot Deal sketchbooks here!

Color Wash paint  **  Loew Cornell set of 3 brushes - I'm using the middle sized one to wash color on the paper  **  Layers of Color stencils - I used number 001 Elegant Touch and 004 Delicious Dots

Gelly Roll Glaze clear pen used to scribble on the paper, then Color Wash was applied over the scribbles to add color.  Write quotes along the curvy lines then add tangles.

Use the clear Glaze pen to draw your circle and divide it into segments.  Apply Color Wash to add color to the page and tangle away.  Here I've tangled in the petals and took the photo before I went on to tangle...

In the other segments.  This is what the book demos and is so easy to do and wicked fun!

More scribbles with the clear Glaze pen.  I didn't have time to tangle in them, but there are an endless array of possibilities.

These are the two Layers Of Color stencils I used.  Delicious Dots on the left and Elegant Touch on the other side.  Interesting things happen when you add color...

Spritz with Perfect Pearls sprays and you end up with a positive space to tangle in.  If you want to make your own custom colored Perfect Pearls sprays check out the video tutorial here.  It was one of the first ones we filmed - and it shows.  We were using a less expensive camera and had no real idea what we were doing at the time.  I think we'll have to redo it!

I spritzed a turquoise Perfect Pearls mist over the center, the a pink blend over the outer part which left me with the white space to tangle in.

I didn't get time to finish this, but you get the idea.  One word of caution when spritzing the Perfect Pearls mist over a stencil like this one...  Ignore your inner voice that says "spritz more, spritz more".  If you don't you'll end up with this...

I over-sprayed and ended up with puddling under the stencil - those blobs of color in the upper and middle left.  Resist the urge to over-spray.  I know the openings on this stencil are small, but the mist droplets are smaller still and they do make their way to the paper!.  Test on a scrap piece of paper to get the hang of how much you need to spritz - it'll likely be less than you think.