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Take your practice to the next level
What is the one thing that prevent you from taking your creative practice to the next level? As an experienced Certified Zentangle® Teacher and over the last 8 years teaching, I have seen this over and over : people struggle with the next step (and sometimes with the...
What is Zentangle?
You may have heard about Zentangle® and wondered what is exactly Zentangle? Zentangle is a trademark. It is also a method. What is the Zentangle Method™ ? Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas are the founder of the Zentangle Method. It is a fun, relaxing and easy-to-learn...
How to organize and store your Zentangle® artwork
This question “how to organize and store your Zentangle® artwork” is a recurring subject in my Facebook group Le Monde Francophone Zentangle and from my students! And I know why. I don’t know if you are like me, but quickly after I started to practice with the...
You don’t have to be Picasso to be an artist
You don’t have to be Picasso to be an artist. Let me explain.
5 Tips to Enhance your Creative Practice
A list of 5 essentials tips to enhance your creative practice. While you practice the Zentangle Method™, these tips will help you take your creative practice to the next level.
Day 10 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021
Here is day 10 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021. A challenge that takes you on a journey with pen and paper.
Day 9 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021
Here is day 9 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021. A challenge that takes you on a journey with pen and paper.
Day 8 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021
Here is day 8 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021. A challenge that takes you on a journey with pen and paper.
Day 7 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021
Here is day 7 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021. A challenge that takes you on a journey with pen and paper.
Day 6 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021
Here is day 6 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021. A challenge that takes you on a journey with pen and paper.
Day 5 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021
Here is day 4 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021. A challenge that takes you on a journey with pen and paper.
Day 4 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021.
Here is day 4 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021. A challenge that takes you on a journey with pen and paper. Vous pouvez lire l’article en français sur le site.
Day 3 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021
Here is day 3 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021. A challenge that takes you on a journey with pen and paper.
Day 2 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021.
Here is day 2 of the challenge TangleFolie for La Francophonie 2021. A challenge that takes you on a journey with pen and paper.
Day 1 of the challenge Tanglefolie for the Francophonie 2021
Here is day 1 of the challenge TangleFolie for the Francophonie 2021. A challenge that takes you on a journey with pen and paper.
Challenge : Tanglefolie pour la Francophonie 2021
Tanglefolie pour la Francophonie is a challenge for word lovers that takes you on a journey with a pen, pencil and paper.
Exploring possibility
An article that explore presence, perspective and possibility in our lives and our creativity.
Everything is a Learning Experience
This week reflection on the saying “everything is a learning experience” while practicing the Zentangle Method™.
5 Creative Simple Gifts You Can Give This Holiday Season
I have gathered here for you a list of 5 creative simple gifts you can give this holiday season.
Three Months Worth
three months worth of tangled work
Learn a new tangle : Finegogh
learn a new tangle, grab a pen and paper and follow quick simple steps
How to Make Baguettes
Learn how to make your own baguettes with step-by-step instructions and pictures
A pen and some fabric | un stylo et du tissu
Why tangle only on paper? There are so many other fun options! Like fabric. What do you tangle on for fun? Pourquoi tangler uniquement sur du papier? Il y a plein d'autres options, dont le tissu. Et vous sur quoi vous tanglez quand vous voulez vous amuser?
Walking the Labyrinth
As I continue to share how to draw Labyrinths in class, I wanted to share with you this work on a classical Man In a Maze Labyrinth. As usual I like the approach of hand drawing the labyrinth, it allows me to let go of the idea of a perfect shape. I just walk the...
April’s Fool | Poisson d’Avril
In France, when I grew up, there was this tradition on April fool's day to cut out little paper fish and paste them on people's back without them noticing. As a kid, it was so much fun and usually you were laughing so hard, it was difficult to do it unnoticed. I...
Well, well, who
A new tangle got released recently by Zentangle, Inc. It was a fun experience to teach in class. Un nouveau tangle vient de sortir récemment, publié par Zentangle, Inc. C'était amusant à enseigner et à voir la variété dans les tuiles réalisées. And look how much...
Labyrinth exploration
I am just sharing an image today. Walk the labyrinth for me please. Je partage juste une image aujourd'hui. -- "We enter a labyrinth to find our center, we enter a maze to loose ourselves..."
Embedded letters | Lettres inscrites
I have been hooked on embedded letters. It is a somewhat recent trend in the Zentangle Method®️ world. It is just plain fun. But eventually I wanted to be able to to frame them, to feel like I could manage how they evolved on my paper. Make them self standing in a...
E41: Being hard on ourselves | Trop (?) dur avec soi
Are you too hard on yourself? Do you find yourself to be judgmental and hold yourself to a higher standard (too high?)? I do. So do a lot of people. In this episode Kellie and I try to figure out why, and more importantly how to cut it out and be nicer...
Tenacity |Ténacité – 3
Here is another example of a class series exploring tenaciously and in depth a new technique: the DUAL COLOR TILE. --> You can read more about the importance of tenacity and this series of blog posts here. Voici un autre exemple de séries de cours explorant en...
E40 Masculine-Feminine
As we explore the subject of the Muse or Inspiration through a series of episodes, we thought it would be interesting to look at the concept of masculine/feminine and how that affects our creativity and our inspiration. All throughout the world, time and culture,...
Tenacity | Ténacité – 2
Here is another example of a class series exploring tenaciously the tangle ING --> You can read more about the importance of tenacity and this series of blog posts here. Voici un autre exemple de séries de cours explorant en profondeur et avec ténacité le tangle...
E39 Overwhelm | Dépassée – 2
This week Kellie and I re-issue the episode 17 Overwhelm with a new intro (updated discussion) and the E17 after show (usually available only to subscribers and patrons) as an all-together episode. We wanted to explore again this topic as it seems particularly...
About tenacity | Au sujet de la ténacité
How often does it happen that we face something we feel is too much for us, or we cannot seem to grasp how to go about it? Do we even realize our feelings come from our thoughts in the moment? What does this realization change for us? Regularly, in class, I have...
E38: Ritual | Rituel
7/28/2018 - French Translation added below - Traduction française ajoutée plus bas. Rituals have existed throughout time and culture When you look in the dictionary a ritual is defined as a solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a...
