Hello October – Inktober Tangles & much more

Hello from Singapore!

I haven’t said hello in awhile, so Hello hello!

This year has gone by at light speed, hasn’t it? Suddenly it’s October.

I know I have not been blogging for ages now – things have been so crazy busy but I have decided to try to make time to post more often on my website and blog. Thank you for checking in – I am grateful.

Singapore CZT Masterclass

This year I had the opportunity to organise the SG CZT Masterclass. It is our second year running, and my, what a blast we had!

Here are some photos from the day, as well as snippets from the magnificent CZT gallery that went on display.

Organising this class is rather the highlight of my CZT year as it stretches my planning, budgeting, organising, networking skills.

This year I also got to do a quick sharing on how to teach Whatz-its and how to fit the technique into classes of any duration.

Whatz-its at SG CZT Masterclass 2018

Inktober Tangles

As a challenge to myself to work on more tangles, I have decided to participate in this year’s Inktober Tangles along with Stephanie Jennifer CZT and many other CZTs and  tanglers. Click here for the prompts.

Here is my first Inktober tile featuring Mooka.

Mooka vs. Finery

Lately my memory isn’t that fantastic so I’ve been writing more details on the back of my tiles like this, to help me remember what I used in the piece! Very handy and old school but I am very pleased to have these little reminders 🙂

Reto Mind and Tangle

In September, my classmate from CZT seminar Alicia G. Rey visited me in Singapore. I invited Stephanie along since they were already connected in Facebook and we had a fantastic time together.

Alicia, Stephanie and I ❤

One of the things Alicia introduced me to was her Spanish tangler’s group. She issues a weekly challenge or a ‘reto’ and we all have a go at it as a group. It is a Spanish group but Zentangle is our main language!!

Here are some of the ones I’ve participated in so far. You can find them on social media under the hashtag #retomindandtangle ❤

Reto Mind and Tangle #125 PKok

Reto Mind and Tangle #126 Chence

Reto Mind and Tangle #127 Bubbles

Reto Mind and Tangle #128 Seta

Other recent work…

Aside from being busy hosting the annual Singapore certified Zentangle teachers’ Masterclass, life has been deliciously good. I have been working very hard so in order to balance everything out, I have also been giving myself snippets of time in between everything, just to get creative.

I’ve started to journal again (I say ‘again’ because I remember doing this when I was a teenager!) in the bujo (bullet journal) style. Back then I don’t know what we called it!? Actually I don’t even think there was a proper word for it lol..

Here’s one of the pages, featuring my September highlights in a word or a tangle.

And here is another page I was working on, nearly buried under Alicia’s sketchbook lol.., which I was also tangling in nearly at the same time.

A tangler’s mess :p

More art ahead………..

Finally completed this piece from March!! I don’t think I will ever try this again lol…. It was intimidating and I felt really overwhelmed.

Sometime ago I discovered these crushed seashell nail art flakes at the local $2 shop named Daiso. Naturally, these found their way onto my tiles!! They really are heaps of fun ;3

More nail art flakes – this time on tan tiles. The colour made me recall the Tints on Tan Winter edition… so… here is a little bit of Christmas, 2 months early haha!

Phew! This has been such an image intensive post! That will teach me to disappear from blogging for so long, ha! I have no one to blame lol..

Until the next post! I will leave you with a photo of my art on display at our Masterclass CZT gallery 🙂

Upcoming! SG CZT Masterclass 2018

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This year we are very excited to present the second annual Masterclass for Singapore CZTs. The Masterclass will be held as follows:

Date: Saturday 8 September 2018

Venue: at Heartistry, Chinatown, SG

As our local CZT community grows, we believe as CZTs it is vital to not only stay in touch with what Zentangle is, but also with each other. This is a chance to get connected as well as keep up to date with new techniques and more!

Here is an information pack in .pdf format of the event and itinerary.

Interested participants may register for the event here. Registration closes on 25 August 2018.

Please note that this is a one-day event that is exclusive to certified Zentangle teachers only. As such, a clear photo or scan of your CZT certificate will need to be submitted upon registration, for us to verify that you are indeed a CZT.

If you have any questions, please contact Debbie at support[at]tangledpursuits.com or +65 97541224. If you are a CZT based in Singapore, and have not connected to the rest of the Singapore CZT community, please also feel free to drop Debbie a note.

We look forward to tangling with you!

Upcoming! Techniques Class – Bijou, Dingbatz & Whatz-its!

It has been a long time since we got ourselves organised. Life has been very full and it seems like new surprises and challenges await at every turn.

This June we are organising our new tangles technique class for returning students. [ All participants need to have attended at least a 101 class with a CZT prior to attending this class. ]

This class will feature Bijou the snail from France – Zentangle HQ’s tiny mascot.

There will be an introduction to Bijou tiles, Bijou-isms, and two new techniques to add to your growing arsenal of tangling skills: Zentangle HQ’s Dingbatz technique, as well as a newly released technique by our very own Debbie New CZT – Whatz-its.

Whatz-its is a technique that Debbie ‘stumbled upon’ in her many tile swapping adventures and she has been playing with this technique from several years ago. Whilst she didn’t think it was that special then, she often received many questions about it and this interest made her decide to develop it into a proper technique for class.

Our very first Bijou, Dingbatz & Whatz-its techniques class is scheduled as follows:

• Date: Saturday, 30 June 2018
• Time: 2pm – 6pm
• Venue: 33A Hong Kong Street, Singapore 059672 [ 5-min walk from Clarke Quay MRT Stn Exit A/E ]
• Fees: $140/pax
• RSVP: support[at]tangledpursuits.com [ by 20 June 2018; slots are limited ]

Fees include:

• A personally curated class kit for taking home
• Drinks and light refreshments

Requirements:

• Completed a prior Zentangle 101 class with a CZT
• Basic Zentangle kit: 01 Micron [ Black ], pencil, tortillion

We hope to see you there!

Zentangles – Diva Challenge 282 & New Tangle ‘DreamDex’

Read on about Debbie New CZT’s DreamDex, a triangular-grid based tangle… that resembles a pinwheel!

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Diva Challenge 282

I have to admit that it was kind of hard to get to this one, as my mind was in a constant state of flux all week. I just couldn’t concentrate or relax and my anxiety levels were quite high. I might try out again, when my mental state improves. Meanwhile, here are some of my older pieces, featuring dripped and splattered on paint…

This is one of my display pieces at 101 classes – I use it to show what the tangle enhancer “Aura” is all about…

Fengle on watercolour splatter…..

New Tangle – DreamDex

This is my fifth tangle after Dealys, Angeleafe, Cadenza and Cabbit.

When I first put up two images of (what would later be known as) DreamDex onto my FB page, one of my BFFs in North Carolina, USA, informed me that this was the pattern she used very…

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Zentangles – Diva Challenge 265 & Negative Space Tipple ‘Hearts’

Read on about Debbie New CZT’s walkthrough: Negative Space Tipple “hearts”…

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Diva Challenge Week 265 – Stripes!

I am not sure where the time goes, but it seems like 7 weeks have just all but flown by since my last Diva Challenge attempt 😛 This year seems like it is going even faster than 2015, and I thought 2015 was record-breakingly, gone too soon.

This week’s prompt is one of my favourites at the Diva’s. Since I have a black tile class this Saturday, I thought I’d get in the mood by going white on black for this challenge 🙂

To start with, I placed 6 parallel, curved lines on a black tile and the rest, they say, is history…. [ as always, clicking on the images will take you to Flickr ]

I like how it resembles a quarter of a circle… Like the rest of the bits of the puzzle are missing. I added Printemps, Zenith, Flux, Tidings and Msst and…

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Zentangles – Diva Challenge 258 & New Tangle ‘Dealys’

Read on about Debbie New CZT’s ‘Dealys’, a nature-inspired tangle that may be drawn in several different ways..

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Dealys

This is my fourth tangle, after Angeleafe, Cadenza and Cabbit.

Like ‘Angeleafe’ before this, I had been using Dealys long before I thought to publish it. It has shown up in my work from even six months ago. From its early days, it appeared very similar visually to Carla du Preez’s Auraleah, so I didn’t think much of it.

As it was already so much a part of my tangles, step-outs for Dealys only ‘resurfaced’ as a priority as I began working on black tile lesson plans. I’d wanted to use something that can be drawn in multiple ways, and I tweaked it so that the step-outs would be as distinctive from Auraleah as possible. As a result, Dealys may be tangled in several ways to achieve different looks.

Dealys is named because of the considerable ‘Delays’ in putting up the step-outs and also after one of my cats, 

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Zentangles – New Tangle ‘Angeleafe’

Read on about Debbie New CZT’s ‘Angeleafe’, a nature-inspired tangle that is based on many repetitive “S” strokes.

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Somewhere in January this year, I am not really sure when [ ..chalk the bad memory up to age or this really bad flu I can’t seem to rid myself of! In fact, January has been one big haze, as I spent a lot of it in bed. ], I started drawing repetitive “S” strokes whilst at various talks and functions. At some point, these started evolving into a leaf of sorts, and when they got addictive to draw, I decided to share them with my CZT chum Stephanie Jennifer over at Everything is Art.

This is my third tangle, and a very different feel, compared to Cadenza andCabbit.

Here are some photos of how I’ve incorporated this new tangle in my tiles. [ Clicking on the images will take you to Flickr. ]

Angeleafe cluster, or as a border..

Individual Angeleafies!

I’ve even used it on…

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Zentangles – Diva Challenge 248 & The Sandwich Days of 2015

Zentangles – Diva Challenge Wk 248

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The Sandwich Days of 2015

Sandwiched between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day every year, are the five days where I can be found at my most deeply retrospective and reflective moods. I like to call them the ‘sandwich days’.

One of my earliest memories of these sandwich days happened when I was just a little girl, maybe about 3 years old. My concept of time; ie. how seconds become minutes.. minutes become hours.. hours become days.. days into weeks.. weeks into months.. months into years.. was only just beginning to take shape then.

It was strange to me, at the time, to find that my mother would encourage me to re-read, re-use or re-utilise toys, books, everyday items but never calendars. Those were thrown out every year and it puzzled me so. My two older cousins were staying over with us for the holidays, and they laughed at how dumb I…

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Zentangles – Diva Challenge 236 and Cadenza

Meet Cadenza – a new tangle by Debbie New, CZT.

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Diva Challenge 236 – Tangle Unexpected

I have been busy – a busy sorta good 🙂 Since I have not been having much down time this week, I am featuring past postcards and ATCs that I have made with old book paper (one of my favourite mediums because it is SO good to advocate upcycling this way!), including a larger piece on good old scrapbooking paper.

Here goes 😉 Starting with a few ATCs… [ clicking on the images will take you to Flickr ]

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Postcards…
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And lastly, an Opus-tile-sized wall art on scrapbooking paper …

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New tangle – Cadenza

I am pleased to unveil my latest tangle discovery, the Cadenza or CadenZa. The emphasized Z being Z for Zentangle 😛

Those familiar with me and my tangling style, would probably know that I am not a huge fan of grid-based tangles. Nevertheless, this…

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Zentangles – 101 Class & Diva Challenge Wk 223

Highlights from a recent Zentangle 101 Class…

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Package to Romania

This little stash of paper goodies is going to a wonderful tangler friend in Romania that I have met over Swapbot 🙂

I am constantly impressed at how Zentangle has become such a large part of my life, in such a short time.. and how it has allowed me to make firm friends with so many people that I’d never otherwise get to connect with!

June Zentangle 101 Class in Singapore

I had the privilege of teaching my very first Zentangle 101 class last Saturday.  I had spent many weeks preparing for it, and wow, it was an amazing experience in itself 🙂

The class went so well, I was SO pleased! So proud of what we accomplished in just an afternoon! I basically learnt a lot about myself as a CZT as well.

Here are some photos from the class… (as always, clicking on the images below will take…

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