String for Travelling Tangles Project (August 2017)

  For those of you who are not part of the Travelling Tangles Project on Facebook, I highly recommend joining it even if you'd just like to look at the pretty art works on it. Click here to view the group.

  For those of you who came to this post from the group... Here's the string to use for the month of August:

  It's meant to look like a peach from up close, and it has a little leaf attached to it. :) I will remind you that strings are meant to be a guide, not a rule. If you'd prefer to disregard certain parts of the given string, or if you'd like to add a few extra curves/lines, go right ahead.

  Have fun!

where flowers bloom, so does hope

  I've been really crazy about my Tombow markers lately.   If you live in Singapore, I supply Tombow markers! Find out more via this link: http://stephaniejennifer.com/tombow

  Here's an ATC tile I did for the Travelling Tangles Project with Michele Wynne.

String Rose with Flux around it, Yin-Cut in the background, and some Diva Dance Rock and Roll Simplified.

  And another ATC! This one was just done for fun. I tried to copy the colour scheme that Michele uses. Featuring "My Swing".

  And here's my entry for this week's Diva and Joey challenge. Featuring "Aquafleur" and "Zonked". Here's the initial background that I did with Tombow markers:

  And here's the finished tile with shading (still done with the Tombow markers) and highlight (done with a Uni-ball Signo Broad pen).

  If you haven't heard yet, I'm part of an eight teacher team of artists that will be teaching an online course titled "The Black & White Journal: A Minimal Approach to Artful Journaling". There will be some live lessons (with replays of those lessons), and some pre-recorded lessons. All the teachers will be a part of a Facebook group that will be created specifically for this course. In the Facebook group, you will be able to connect with other students, ask questions, and get feedback on the things you draw and create. :) It'd be so much fun, I'm sure you'll learn something new.

  It's also your last chance to get an early-bird special. It ends on the last day of this month. Find out more about the other teachers that will be teaching the course via this link: http://bit.ly/stephaniejournal (And sign up if you'd like to be a part of it!)

  In my part of the course, I will be teaching you how to merge tangles in your sketchbook to create more complex and interesting pages. Here's the final product that you'll get from my class:

  Tangling AND shading will be taught. Other things that the other teachers will be teaching in the course include learning how to make your own journal, gesture sketching, stamp making, and other tangling fun. I hope you'll join us.​

  And until next time, keep tangling~

Giveaway: The Black and White Journal

  If you haven't heard yet, I'm part of an eight teacher team of artists that will be teaching an online course titled "The Black & White Journal: A Minimal Approach to Artful Journaling". There will be some live lessons (with replays of those lessons), and some pre-recorded lessons. All the teachers will be a part of a Facebook group that will be created specifically for this course. In the Facebook group, you will be able to connect with other students, ask questions, and get feedback on the things you draw and create. :) It'd be so much fun, I'm sure you'll learn something new.

  As a way for me to say "thank you" to you for your continued support through all of my artistic endeavours, I am giving away one free seat to this course. It is open to everyone, no matter where you live. :) Entering the giveaway is also really simple! You just need to let me know why you'd like to win this giveaway. That's it.

  I feel so blessed to be able to do what I love for a living. It's been just shy of two years since my company, Everything Is Art became a reality, and it's been a crazy awesome journey so far. Thank you for being a part of it. I'm ever grateful for the opportunities I've been given so far, the wonderful people I've met and taught, the happy memories I've made... and I can't wait to see what the coming years will bring.

heARTland project

  We had our last workshop for Bukit Batok East Community Centre. The idea is that over three workshops, residents from Bukit Batok East would come together to create a large 4m by 1m (13 feet by 3 feet) community art work to be displayed at an art fiesta happening in July. The event is called "heARTland" (how cute) and will be held near Toh Guan Park RC. 

  Here's the last workshop: 

I'm really tall cause' I'm standing on a chair.

If you'd like to see close-ups of each of the canvases, you can do so on Everything Is Art's Facebook page right here.

  In other news; I'm part of an eight teacher team that will be teaching an online journal course. In my video, I will teaching you how to merge tangles together. Here's the final outcome that you'll get.

  There's an early bird special if you sign up before 1st of July 2017. If this sounds like something that you'll be interested in, click on this link to find out more: bit.ly/stephaniejournal

  On to weekly challenges... Joey's tangle for this week was "Yuma", so here's my tile for it.

  So I decided to use the same tangle to complete Diva's challenge: drawing with your opposite hand. I wasn't really nervous... Didn't really have any expectations on how things would turn out... I have never drawn with my non-dominant hand, though, so this was new. I just went with the flow. I did this tile first before the one for Joey's challenge. Doing this made me understand what some people whom I teach Zentangle workshops to mean when they say "my hand isn't listening to my brain". I don't feel terrible about the outcome. It was a good experience. I think when you let go of any expectations of what your drawing should look like, you'll have fun no matter what. :)

Finally, here's a personal project that I just completed. I made all the tiles entirely using Tombow markers (from the backgrounds, to the tangles, to the shading). If you're located in Singapore, you can buy Tombow markers from here.

  Thanks for dropping by. I hope I inspired you somehow. ^-^

catching up

  Here's the second workshop that we had for the collaborative art work to be completed for Bukit Batok East CC.

  It was truly so much fun.

  I'm playing catch-up for weekly challenges. I've been distracted by the Summer project under "Zentangle: Tangled & Journaled, Too!" on Facebook. I've also did personal projects, namely; two small canvases for my living room. They were done using Identi pens, with highlights added using a Signo Broad pen. The gold of the canvas comes from a spray. I did this first one on my own.

The edges have Diva Dance Waltz on it.

  And then did this pink one whilst teaching my niece to do a gold one on her own. We had a great time. The pink was done with neon acrylic paint.

  Here's what my 7 year-old niece did.

  In other news, I will be teaching my first online course. I will be teaching alongside seven other teachers. In my video, you will learn how to merge tangles together. I will be posting a picture of what you'll learn in another post really soon. Until then, there is an early bird special going on and the price of the course is discounted. So if you'd like to check it out, you can visit it via this link to find out more.

  Thanks for dropping by. I hope to see you again soon. :)

Go big or go home.

  My mum, Joni, and I had a workshop at Bukit Batok Zone 3 RC. We are in the process of creating a large 4m by 1m (13 feet by 3 feet) community art work. The purpose of the project is to get more people to find out about the Zentangle method, and also to create an art work that can be displayed at an art fiesta that Bukit Batok East Community Centre will hold in July.

  This was the first of three workshops that we will hold in June for Bukit Batok East Community Centre. I prepped the four canvases by painting hearts in neon pink acrylic paint. The idea was that the participants would learn a few patterns in each workshop and add them to the white areas on the canvases. Here's the progress so far:

Joni is on the left-most. I'm the tallest in the photo. heh heh heh

Look at my cute apron.

Trying to build the confidence of the participants.
"There are no mistakes," we say.

  On that note, I wanted to show you a page from one of our students, Connie. We taught "Garlic Coves" re-imagined, and she completed the page this way. How wonderful.

  Here's my tile for last week's Diva (diptych) and Joey (Vano) Challenge combined. I recently got a full set of Tombow markers and decided to add shading with them. They're water-based so they don't have that strong smell that alcohol-based markers usually have, which is great. I've been loving them so far.

Vano and my version of Diva Dance Rock and Roll.

  Thanks for stopping by. I hope you've been inspired. :) Until next week, keep tangling!