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

By Beckah Krahula

One Zentangle A Day is a beautiful interactive book teaching the principles of Zentangles as well as offering fun, related drawing exercises. Zentangles are a new trend in the drawing and paper arts world. The concept was started 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. This step-by-step book is divided into 6 chapters, each with 7 daily exercises. Each exercise includes new tangles to draw in sketchbooks or on tiepolo (an Italian-made paper), teaches daily tile design, and offers tips on related art principles, and contains an inspirational "ZIA" (Zentangle Inspired Art) project on a tile that incorporates patterns, art principals, and new techniques.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592538118
• ISBN13: 9781592538119
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Quarry Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

offers tips on related art principles,

This step-by-step book is divided into 6 chapters, each with 7 daily exercises. Each exercise includes new tangles to draw teaches daily tile design, and offers tips on related art principles, and contains an inspirational "ZIA" (Zentangle Inspired Art) project on a tile that incorporates patterns, art principals, and new techniques.

One Zentangle A Day strives to encourage an increase in skills and creativity.

Beckah encourages daily activities to help increase your understanding of the Zentangle process. She does step away from the Founders of Zentangle simplicity when she discusses shading according to a light source, which Zentangle doesn't do. She also talks of perspective. . . I realize that she is applying rules of art to Zentangle, and I feel that it helps me on my artistic journey, but it does veer away from the traditional Zentangle. I have learned several new tangles and feel that it is helping my art work.