Drink and Draw

OMG!   Last night was soooo fun!  It was our Drink and Draw at Vino Etcetera.  There were seven people there along with Corrine, Don and I.  Corrine gave them samples of 6 wines during the evening, just small samples not a glass full. Then Don or I would teach a tangle, then another sampling of wine, another tangle, and so on through the evening.  It, of course was not a regular class but it sure was FUN! We must have gone through 6 tangles during the event.

Don had decided to wear his tails so I also decided to dress "quasi" elegant.  We also had worked out a few things to interject into the "class" occasionally. We are not really comedians but last night I guess we resembled comedians a little bit.  Many years ago each of us had done some clown work so I guess it came quite easily to us.  Funny thing about the clown work . . . Don had done some and I had done some also but neither of us knew the other was clowning.

I have added some pictures here . . .  probably more to come later . . . Corrine has some that she will send me.

    

    

Wandering, Wondering Wednesdays

I decided my Wednesday would be wondering or wandering or a little of both.  Sometimes my mind wanders to new places and then I wonder about them.  So I will be a bit all over the place on Wednesdays.

Today mind is wandering towards tonight.  Don and I have a Drink and Draw at Vino Etcetera.  This is something we have never done before.  They will have a wine tasting and we will do our drawing thing.  Corrine will introduce a wine then Don and I will introduce Zentangles and a pattern; then another taste of wine . . another pattern and so on.  We plan to make it a lot of fun and have some one liners that we are going to add.  We play off from one another pretty well so hopefully that will make for a nice evening.

Vino Etcetera is new wine bar in town and is very nice, elegant Italian style.  So Don decide he is going to wear his tails; so I guess I will wear something quasi elegant too.  Hopefully, I will have some pictures to upload tomorrow or the next day.  A little nervous about it and excited too.

Now I will introduce you to my CZT partner, Don.

I guess this was a wondering post.

Tangle Tuesday (Fibonacci)

At the Zentangle® seminar in Providence Rick talked a few times about the Fibonacci sequence, the Golden Curve, all of those things associated with Fibonacci (he was really Leonardo of Pisa).  For a year now I have been fascinated by the work the Fibonacci did. You can find so much about it on the internet and wonderful pictures of the Golden Curve in nature, in science, in art, and even in music.

For a bit of time now I have been trying to connect Fibonacci with Zentangles.  I had the idea to design a pattern with the golden curve but decided this would not be a good thing for a tangle.  The Fibonacci curve is too calculated and in tangling most things are free hand.  However, I did two things, actually three things.  Number one, I design a golden curve on the computer and printed it up onto 3 and 1/2 in squares and then tangled it.  Number two . . . I used calculations on the computer to design square that would replicate the golden curve, tangled on each of those squares and then pasted them on a background in the shape of the golden curve.

Number three . . . one must first understand what the Fibonacci Sequence is.  Very briefly, it is a series of number that follow a sequence, namely 1...1....2....3....5.....8....13.....21....34.....55.... and so on.  An easy to understand form of the equation would be:   F_n = F_n-1 + F_n-2      The third thing I did was to write a Fib.  A fib is a poem using this pattern:  line 1 has 1 syllable; line 2 has 1 syllable; line 3 has 2 syllables; line 4 has 3 syllables; line 5 has 5 syllables; line 6 has 8 syllables.  This is my Fib.

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Joyce Block
Providence
Rick and Maria
Certified Zentangle Teacher

Here are the Fibonacci tiles.

Music Monday

 

I am taking a lead from my friend, Sharon, and posting music to my blog.  This is Secret Garden, a group from Norway and Ireland.  I first heard them 10 years ago and since have purchased a few of their CDs.  

In fact, I think I will have Mondays be Music Monday on my blog.

Unnamed Tangle

As you can probably tell, I am at a loss when naming this pattern.  The pattern came about when I was shopping online for Christmas presents.  I saw a poinsettia that really needed to be dissected and made into a tangle. I thought about naming it Settia but that is too much like poinsettia . . .  but maybe it will work.  Let me know what you think I should name it.

Incidentally, I never did get any online shopping done . . . if anyone wants to help with that,  PLEASE DO!!!

Tangling on 11.11.11

Yesterday on 11.11.11 some of us created a zentangle as a meditation on a very unique day. Many of us also dedicated this to the memory of Rick's mother, who passed away a week ago.  It is always very rewarding to see what others have done with the same idea. I had a haircut yesterday and was finished with it at 11:00. I wanted to start my creation right at 11:11 so that was going to be a problem because it is a 15 minute drive home.  The church where I am music director is only a 10 minute drive from Anton's so I stopped there and sat in the sanctuary and created my zentangle there. Here is  a mosaic of all the zentangles submitted.

11/11/11 Zentangle

Jane Marbaix (CZT6) of the UK suggested that we each tangle on November 11, 2011 (11/11/11).  It is such a unique date, as 12/12/12 will be next year.  What a wonderful idea!  I began tangling at 11:11 on 11/11/11  and had as my intention Rick and his family as an affirmation of his mother's life.  Because of this intention, I used Rick's Paradox which surrounds the number 11.  


I hope there is a good turnout of 11/11/11 zentangles.  It would be fun to see a mosaic of all the tiles made on this day.