Tangle Club Notes
Note: Most of the Tool links are to Amazon. I'm not affiliated with them nor do I proclaim that you should buy the item from there. The items are simply easiest for me to find on their site for the purposes of getting you to the exact tool we were discussing. Feel free to take that knowledge and check out other websites like Blick, or preferably shop local and head out to your favorite art store.
May 2023
Discussions and Enabling
There are still a few spots left for Tahoe Tangle Reunion retreat on June 15-17 in beautiful Truckee CA! I will be teaching along with Kim VanZyll, Romi Marks and Mo Lockey. There will be 6 classes with lunch and dinners included. If you are interested or want more info, click HERE.
My review of the Paintbrush Rinser in last months club is in, and it works great! It looks a little cheap and I didn't have great expectations, but I used it recently to prep my tiles with watercolor for a class. It was so easy to use and I did not have to keep running to the kitchen for a fresh glass of rinse water. Result: Buy it!
We talked a little about bookmaking and more about Celtic Knots. I recently got a refresher from one of our tanglers and now I'm all in. I may have been seen working some celtic knots while getting a pedicure recently...
While sharing recent works, we talked about a few tangles: Verbana, Plot, Playful Flower, Moon Tear, Medi-Eight. Arboreal was mentioned but I could not find step-outs, so I'm not sure I captured the name correctly.
Tools mentioned:
Other links:
Analisa Bevan - our very own celebrity!!
April 2023
Discussions and Enabling
Tahoe Tangle Reunion retreat is June 15-17 in beautiful Truckee CA! I will be teaching along with Kim VanZyll, Romi Marks and Mo Lockey. There will be 6 classes with lunch and dinners included. If you are interested or want more info, click HERE.
We talked about a few tangles: Boulder Builder and Dariso. I could not find ‘Dariso’ but I did find Daviso… is that what we talked about? Do I need hearing aids??
I talked about some classes I took:
That lead to a discussion about watercolor tools:
Another marvelous White Gel Pen is made my Misulove. It's a very nice addition to your pen collection (or is it pen hoard?).
The biggest, coolest, best feeling Dot Grid book you've every seen is Littfun Bullet Dog Grid Journal, 320 sheets of awesome.
A cool tip was shared for blending Watercolor Pencils - After using the pencils on your paper, put odorless paint thinner on a tortillon and lightly run across the colored pencil to blend it.
Another cool tip to get your art on a ceramic tile - Go to a place like ‘Color Me Mine’ where you can choose a tile and paint on your tangles, then they will fire it. You now have a lovely ceramic tile with your art on it!
We had a discussion on handmade books, where the technique of adding rivets to the spine was mentioned. This led to a few folks bringing out their rivet tools - Baby Crop-A-Dile, and Crop-A-Dile Big Bite!
Of course we talked about Celtic Knots and the following folks were mentioned: Nancy Dawes classes & David Nichols Celtic Playlist on Youtube.
There was another mention of Vintage Page Designs on FB by Ali Manning, and here is her website. This is the Hand Made Book club subscription person. Another mention was Sketchbook revival on Karen Abend’s website which is free!
March 2023
Discussions and Enabling
Watch out for information on the Tahoe Tangle Reunion retreat! I will be teaching along with Kim VanZyll, Romi Marks and Mo Lockey in Truckee. The dates are June 16-18, there will be 6 classes and all meals are included. I’ll send out more information, like price, when it’s settled. If you are thinking about going, let me know and I’ll put you down on the list. I have 4 definites and 3 maybes so far. I have 10 spots that I can reserve and any open spots after that will be open for the masses.
For info on all of Brian’s undertakings, please visit him at: symmetrychaos.com & on instagram at @ATCElkGrove. And watch his etsy shop for a drop of the Cross templates!
We talked about a few tangles: Braided Wheat, Ra-on and Tri-po.
Enabling links:
Tools mentioned:
There was a big recommendation for fiveBelow stores where you can find canvas panels and stretch canvas for fantastic prices. That link is to an 8”x8” 4 pack of canvas panels for $3.25!
We also talked about the Re-Create store in Rocklin and Creative Re-use in Virginia area, and basically said to google 'art supply up cycle’ for a store like this in your area. Looking up the link for the Virginia store, I decided that we should all move there! Look what I found:
Amy Maricle was mentioned again along with her book, ‘Draw Yourself Calm’. Her techniques are much simpler than Zentangle, and I kind of like that for when I really want to disengage while drawing.
More to come.....