CZT bound this weekend!

Well the time has finally come when I get to make the flight to Rhode Island and meet the creators themselves to become a CZT (Certified Zentangle Teacher)!

I am so excited and cannot wait to embark on this next step in my zentangle journey!

It was a long school year helping to start up a brand new school and I was not able to dedicate myself to my drawings or this blog, so now that the crazy first year rush is over, I am so glad to be back and ready to pick up my pens and pencils again!

Our coloring book venture, Global Doodle Gems, is hitting the Amazon by force! We now have over 70 books published for the artistic in us all and I'm proud to be a part of such a wonderful group of artists.

Search Global Doodle Gems on Amazon and delve into the wide variety available. There is something for everyone out there!

I will definitely be updating this post with pictures from my trip to Rhode Island, so stay tuned for more!!

Global Doodle Gems

The first Volume of the Amazing Collaborated Coloring book is ready and will hopefully be published soon! I can't wait to share this book with you guys! There are artists from all over the world who have come together to put these books together and they are coming together beautifully!

To have such a variety of styles and countries represented is very special and I'm proud to be a part of something so global!

If you would like to stay up-to-date on how the book is coming along as well as the future volumes, please join here! Also, you can add your own drawing into a photo album for a charity book! The top 100 liked photos in the album will make it into the book! :)

Zentangle Agamographs

Have you heard of an Agamograph? Chances are you have seen one but didn't know what it was called! :) LOL This awesome art work has two pictures that have been spliced together so that as a person walks by the see one picture and then it morphs into a new picture due to the accordion folds of the paper. Way cool!

So for memorial day we decided to make one from this awesome seller on teacherspayteachers.com
Memorial Day Agamographs

So then I was inspired to create my own template and have the students create some art-inspired ones. I gave them 4 blank sheets that were divided into strips by black lines. On the first 2 they had to draw and color two completely different pictures. Some chose objects like trucks and mountains while others went into geometric designs etc... Once both pictures were drawn and colored, they would cut off the first strip of picture one and glue it to the first strip of the third blank sheet. Then they would cut the first strip of picture two and glue it onto the next strip and so on until 2 full sheets have been filled with spliced strips.

We used the directions learned from the Memorial Day Agamograph to create our zentangle/art version. They turned out really good!

Zentangle Classroom Newsletters

Looking for a fun newsletter to give your kids a zentangle experience each week or maybe each month? Each newsletter provides new pattern step-outs, ideas, and more.

Print front and back and you have a fun newsletter for your students to enjoy!!


Click here to purchase Issue #1!!
In issue one students learn the basic set up for zentangle tiles, basic vocabulary that goes with the discipline, how to shade, task for practicing patterns, a step-out (step by step instructions for a pattern) that they can glue into their journal, and more!

Can be used from Kinder up to 12th but the actual booklet would need an independent reader to read on their own. But you could definitely walk the younger kids through it and let them try the more basic concepts.


Click here to purchase Issue #2
In issue two students receive a student-created work of art (send in theirs for their chance in a future issue!), how to create the pattern crevice, another pattern step-out, how to make a dew drop, and tangled hand activity.

Can be used from Kinder up to 12th but the actual booklet would need an independent reader to read on their own. But you could definitely walk the younger kids through it and let them try the more basic concepts.

Themed Tangles

So I gave my students a list of positive and negative themes as well as a list of tangle patterns that they were either familiar with or could easily learn. They had to choose 4 patterns to use for the entire project. Then they had to choose 2 negative and 2 positive themes. They could only use the 4 patterns they chose to represent the different themes. We did this while learning themes in reading. Lots of fun!

Have to have shading :)

Create by student

Let It Go Tangles

Today in class we did "Let It Go" tangles. Why? Because who doesn't loooove Elsa??

So each student received a tile and and that person chose the type of string that would be on the tile. For those new to zentangle, a string is a pencil line that breaks up the tile and gives them a starting point. My only requirement was that this one made 4 sections. Then they had a limited amount of time to tangle just one section of the tile. Then they had to sing "Let it go" as they handed over their hard work to the next person in their group so that they could do section #2. We continued this until all four sections were completed. Then the group took their completed tiles (4 now since each person started one) and then they composed them into one large tile. One of my groups had 5 and it worked out just fine :) This was a fun and collaborative way to practice and experience zentangle patterns!

Instructions I had on the board lol

Great ideas from my facebook group users!

Updated as they are added so keep checking back!!