One Zentangle A Day: A 6-Week Course in Creative Drawing for Relaxation, Inspiration, and Fun

by Beckah Krahula

Overview

Take your doodles to the next level with this best-selling and preeminent guidebook to the meditative art of the Zentangle. 
 
The Zentangle method was created by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas as a way to practice focus and meditation through drawing by using repetitive lines, marks, circles, and shapes. Each mark is called a “tangle,” and you combine various tangles into patterns to create “tiles,” or small square drawings.

Featuring the incredibly beautiful and inspiring artwork of author Beckah Krahula, One Zentangle a Day is divided into six chapters, each with seven daily exercises. With every chapter, explore a different aspect of Zentangle:

• Basics and Enhancements
• Tangles and Value Patterns
• Geometric and Organic Patterns
• Understanding and Using Color
• Defining and Using Style
• Creating the Rest of Your Zentangle Journey

Each exercise includes new tangles to draw in sketchbooks or on Tiepolo (an Italian-made paper), teaches daily tile design, offers tips on related art principles, and contains an inspirational “ZIA” (Zentangle Inspired Art) project that incorporates patterns, art principals, and new techniques.
 
Drawing Zentangles is a relaxing and replenishing diversion that can be enjoyed by people of all ages and skill levels. In addition to its soothing benefits, a Zentangle practice can also help with self-image, phobias, addictions, pain management, conflict resolution, and coping with grief.

Step away from the daily hustle and untangle with a Zentangle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592538119
Publisher:	Quarry Books
Publication date:	11/01/2012
Series:	One A Day Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Beckah Krahula is an artist, consultant, product designer, industry expert, and author of One Zentangle a Day (Quarry Books, 2012) and 500 Tangles, (Quarry Books, 2015). She began her career with the first graphic rubber stamp company in the US, and has worked as a full-time mixed-media artist ever since. She has worked for publishers, toy designers, and product manufacturers. In February of 2011, she became a certified Zentangle teacher. She lives in Houston, Texas.

Read an Excerpt

The Eleven-Step Zentangle Process

Relax
Breathe
Admire the paper and tools.
Appreciate this opportunity.
Draw the border.
Draw the string.
With the pen, draw the tangles.
With the pencil, shade the tangles.
With the pen, initial the front, and sign, date, and comment on the back.
Reflect and appreciate.
Admire up close and at arm's length.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Zentangle in Practice
What is Zentangle?
Chapter One: Basics and Enhancements
Chapter Two: Tangles and Value Patterns
Chapter Three: Geometric and Organic Patterns
Chapter Four: Understanding and Using Color
Chapter Five: Defining and Using Style
Chapter Six: Creating the Rest of Your Zentangle Journey
Inspiration Gallery
Appendix
Resources
Artist Contributors
About the Author
Acknowledgements

Editorial Reviews

First of all, a definition: A Zentangle is a free-flowing way of drawing structured patterns that increase focus and creativity even as they form more beautiful designs. Perhaps the chief wonder of this new method is its multiplicity: Some view as a refreshing way to create art; others as a path to relaxation or even as a form of meditation. Whatever your approach, certified Zentangle teacher Beckah Krahula has crafted an interactive, step-by-step 6-week course to teach the basic patterns, principles, and techniques that fits your purpose. An inviting way to untangle your mind with tangles. A trade paperback original.