heARTistry

LOVElovelove all things Zentangle all the time! Now I have a question that has nothing to do with celebrating 20 years of Zentangle love. I can’t figure out how to ask this via email to whom-ever can answer in the Zentangle universe. So I’m using this means: I’m wanting to apply for a local scholarship given in my community and I was wanting the scholarship in order to attend ZenAgain 2024. The deadline for application is March 15. Are there any definite dates, costs, plans, etc for ZenAgain? I realize it may still be too early to be putting Zentangle Inc. on the spot this way. If so, no worries. I understand. Thanks for all you do for us all over the world in the Zentangle-verse!

I love this one so much that I have it saved in a ‘Z favorites’ folder ❤️

28/12/2023

I love doing zentangle with my art. I usually use the zentangle as a background. But I started using zentangle a l-o-n-g time ago.
My husband and I have been married for 62 1/2years. He has just died earlier this year at 90years old. I am now 84 yrs old.

We have lived in interesting places:-

We lived in the Solomon Island ‘s for 4 years. During that time Robin (our daughter) was nearly 5yrs old. And Bill our son was 2 yrs younger.There were only about 6 other families on the Island. Robin had a friend called Cheryl, who was about the same age as Robin. So Barry and I and Cherryl’s parents decided to send them both to the little native school, situated on the island. Robin and Cheryl were the only white kids there. They learnt a bit – with a strong accent. The natives in those days spoke pidgeon English. We then went to New Guinea and lived on Kessa, a coconut and cocoa plantation for 2 years.

After that we came back to Brisbane and Barry commuted to work every weekday and the 2 children went to an ordinary state school.

When the children were old enough and Bill got a job, we bought a sailing boat, and went cruising.
Barry loved the boat but I was not that keen. So we sold our boat and we bought 20 acres, 3/4 hrs outside Bowen (Qld).

As we got older, we decided we needed good hearlth care and so we bought up here in Townsville where we now live.

This year is 28/12/2023

After that we thought we could come back to Brisbane, Australia. He hated that job.

So Barry would come home from work with newspaper in hand and looked deparately for jobs. He found one. But his mind was not happy.
So then we went to live on a lighthouse along the Queensland Coast. We loved that. But then the Qld government ruled that the lighthouses were to be de-manned.

These are so beautiful! I enjoy the ways people make the different tangles fit together.

FOLLOW YOUR ART!

Thank you all & Happy Heart days to you! 💜💓💜

They say “…a picture is worth a thousand words.” You don’t need words, Maria. Your “heARTistry” is embodied in every drawing, every comment, every blog post, and every seminar you share with us. I first met you and Rick in 2018, after your lecture at the NMAI in RI. There was so much “heart” radiating from both of you, and between you and the audience. I felt the full blast of your heartfelt enthusiasm, and I carried it away with me that day, along with two of your books, and the memory of the two of you sitting in the shade of the courtyard at Vernon Court. I can still see the aura of light that surrounded you both. The “heARTistry” of Zentangle is you!

Heart = Soul

Zenthology to Zentomology, #artist to #Heartist. Loving our Zentangle growth. 💖💖💖

Maria, I ❤️ your 💕!

Heartfelt thanks for the Zentangle method that fills my heart with joy.

Oh Maria, I feel it too. I have always loved to create, even if I didn’t call myself an artist. Since discovering Zentangle, I now DO! And I, too, feel the joy in my life beyond just the tangling. It has helped me create from my heart and carry that creativity into the rest of my daily life in ways that are so life-giving. Thank you!

Discovering the Zentangle method during one of the Covid lockdowns was wonderful as it helped fill in many hours but a bigger joy was to teach my two grandsons, then aged 7 and 10 the art of tangling. Each time they did their homeschooling with us we always made time to tangle and quite often the next day there would be a ping on my phone and a photo would arrive of their latest zentangle. So much fun.

Earth

Hearth
Heart
Art
❤️Art in everything that matters. Thank you both for sharing the brilliance of your hearts.

Oh, how I LOVE this!!!

My husband got a tile with a heart for Valentine’s Day – just like last year.
And he will get a designed tile the day after tomorrow for his birthday. He likes it very much.
I am grateful for this creative way to express myself.

An artist who has a piece of paper and a pen, including Zentangle, and who truly represents himself, thinks of you as a “heartist” in my eyes.

I don’t want you to add implications such as good or bad, because it’s the only world you have.
One of the people who is really grateful to have met the Zentangle Method.

It’s not a person who makes a name for himself in history, but the tiles he drew show only one art in the world.

I was never a doodler & couldn’t work out how to just doodle. But, when I was shown how to tangle one step at a time (a structured approach) a light bulb went off in my head & now happily deconstruct patterns & always have a paper & pencil in my handbag for whenever I need to keep myself occupied unexpectedly – sudden hospital visits is when that comes in really handy. As far as I’m concerned there’s a world of difference between a doodle & a tangle – I still can’t doodle!!

I am primarily a watercolorist and as much joy as art has given me in almost all of my 70 years…I was hoping that when I became a CZT in 2010 I could start others on their journey “one stroke at a time.” My premise was,….if they could feel successful in tangling….begin to feel like an artist….that it might lead to them taking a drawing course….and then a painting course….then….Yay! My goal had been met!! After the training, I had no idea that, as a result, seven of my students would become CZTs themselves, that I would make so many friends, have a very active Zentangle Club, and besides teaching Zentangle at community centers and for parks and rec….that I would teach at an Art Center! Valentine’s Day projects included gold leafed hearts or swirled watercolors— always dramatic surrounded by tangles! I LOVE how being a CZT brought more LOVE into my life in so many ways!!!

I am primarily a watercolorist and as much joy as art has given me in almost all of my 70 years…I was hoping that when I became a CZT in 2010 I could start others on their journey “one stroke at a time.” My premise was,….if they could feel successful in tangling….begin to feel like an artist….that it might lead to them taking a drawing course….and then a painting course….then….Yay! My goal had been met!! After the training, I had no idea that, as a result, seven of my students would become CZTs themselves, that I would make so many friends, have a very active Zentangle Club, and besides teaching Zentangle at community centers and for parks and rec….that I would teach at an Art Center! Valentine’s Day projects included gold leafed hearts or swirled watercolors— always dramatic surrounded by tangles! I LOVE how being a CZT brought more LOVE into my life in so many ways!!!

Reading Preetie Kohli’s response to this blog prompted me to pen down here my memories of that dark Covid period in 2020. Yes, I had offered that workshop, pro bono, for all the Saturdays of the month of May during which I had turned 70. It was my gift to the people to reboot their lives from the unprecedented lockdown period imposed by the pandemic of Covid.

It was very satisfying for me that over 120 people got the exposure to the wonderful artform of Zentangle through me during that month.
Gratefully, since I was a beneficiary of Rick and Maria’s largesse in becoming a CZT way back in 2012,, it has always been my practice to pay it forward the largesse to deserving candidates. After touching a figure of around 1000 such beneficiaries, I have stopped counting, but the practice continues.
Zentangle has given me a new identity as a ‘Zentangle Artist’ where as my art teacher during my school days had passed down a life sentence on me saying – ‘you cannot draw’. After 50 years I became free from that life sentence when Rick and Maria invited me as their guest to attend the CZT 09 seminar.
Thank you R & M.

Finding Zentangle definitely made my life better… before discovering this art form I would have never have called myself an artist, now I do!

Our Zentangle family is an expression, vision truly, of how the world can be if we all come from our hearts and lift one another up to be who we are meant to be. The social world of Mosaic is a clear example…every comment from contributors around this world, is positive, respectful, heart-sent and heart felt. It is a joy to my heart to be taken into this community, taught the 8 steps, the Bijouisms, the No Mistakes philosophy and all the wisdom of this meditative art form that both begins and ends with a grateful heart. I end and integrate each of my days blissfully exploring wherever my pen leads me knowing wherever we go is exactly where I’m meant to be. Thank you to all at Zentangle “Heart-quarters” for all you do!

Zentangle gives more to the heart than the expression “heartfelt”, it gives us a Zentangle family and a heartful gratitude which goes on and on because it fescu’s on to others and keeps the feelers out to more than we can imagine. Congratulations for all the love, just and heART your family gives and keeps giving. Cannot wait for the next PP!

Zentangle definitely changed my life! I have experienced every single benefit as well as gaining self confidence as I started teaching class. I have made lifelong friends through Zentangle. I could go on and on for pages but I’ll use self-control and stop here!

Love you, Maria and Rick for accepting me as I am, and for who you are,
Kat van Rooyen CZT20