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Joy of Zentangle: Drawing Your Way to Increased Creativity, Focus, and Well-Being (Design Originals) Instructions for 101 Tangle Patterns from CZTs Suzanne McNeill, Sandy Steen Bartholomew, & More Paperback – November 1, 2012

by Marie Browning (Author), Suzanne McNeill (Author), Sandy Bartholomew (Author)
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Reduce stress and increase creativity with the relaxing art of Zentangle(R)!

  • 101 tangle patterns broken down into easy-to-follow steps
  • Beginner-friendly instructions help you get started
  • Personal stories from others who have increased their creativity and well-being through Zentangle
  • Galleries of Zentangle and Zentangle-Inspired Art

Do you tangle? This book will teach you how! Inside you will learn the basic theory of Zentangle—an easy-to-learn method of pattern drawing that reduces stress while promoting creativity—and find instructions for drawing more than 100 tangles from Certified Zentangle Teachers, including Suzanne McNeill, Sandy Steen Bartholomew, and Marie Browning.

This beautiful book is filled with examples of tangles and Zentangle-Inspired Art, as well as Zentangle craft projects and compelling stories from those who have improved their well-being through Zentangle.

With Joy of Zentangle, a pen, and some paper, you'll have all you need to get started on your Zentangle journey!

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Instructions for drawing more than 100 tangles

Experience the Joy of Zentangle

This beginner's guide includes instructions for everything from drawing your very first Zentangle to applying your new skills to decorative art & gifts:

  • What is Zentangle?
  • Zentangle Basics
  • Advanced Techniques
  • Tangle Directory
  • Learn 101 Tangles
  • Zentangle Gallery
  • ZIA Gallery
  • Additional Applications

Relax with the Art of Zentangle

Reduce Stress and Increase Creativity

You don't have to be an artist or have artistic talent to experience and create Zentangle art!

While many of the patterns or tangles might look complicated at first glance, this book deconstructs them down to their simplest form of lines, dots, and shapes, so even a beginner can quickly learn to make beautiful Zentangle art.

  • Excellent choice for the beginning Tangler
  • 101 tangles to learn to draw
  • Step-by-step detailed instructions
  • Full-color photographs
  • Zentangle basics
  • Advanced techniques like shading & design
  • Traditional & ZIA galleries

The instruction and inspiration you need to get started in Zentangle

The Basics

For the beginner, start with the basics: The tools you'll need, understanding the philosophy of Zentangle, and making your very first Zentangle piece. Remember, the Zentangle method is meant to be relaxing, not complicated!

Advanced Techniques

A piece of Zentangle art can be as simple as black lines on white paper, or it can be as complex as a fully colored ZIA. Find great advice on shading, string shape, and borders to add to your Zentangle designs. There is also great advice for finding inspiration for your tangles in nature!

101 Tangles & Zentangle Art Galleries

Learn the simple steps to create 101 different tangles. No matter how complicated the finished product might appear, every single tangle can be broken down into a series of repetitive markings. The galleries of Zentangle art that follow encourage your creativity: Experiment with variations of each tangle to reflect your personality!

What is Zentangle?: The Basics

The Zentangle method, created by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas, an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. Experience peace and relaxation while creating a meaningful piece of art.

The history of Zentangle, the benefits, the uses, and the basic tools you'll need are all covered in this book, to get you tangling in no time!

Getting Started

Learn 101 Tangles

Create Beautiful Art

Inspiring Galleries

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This book may change your life. Zentangle is the newest craze to hit the crafting world. This easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun illustration technique is a great way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. It's easy to learn and, after doing a few Zentangle pieces, you'll begin to notice the world around you in a different way-it will seem brighter, more colorful, more in focus. You'll also master illustration techniques that you never thought possible. Traditional Zentangle designs are done in black ink on a white square tile of paper. A simple pattern can be broken down into several small sections and each section contains a different doodle or illustration. There is no right or wrong when creating a Zentangle design, just relax and let yourself go! There are also several ways to use Zentangle, as outlined in Joy of Zentangle. You could use it to decorate your home, create beautiful backgrounds for scrapbooks and cards, or simply decorate a margin of a business memo as you sit in your morning meeting. Joy of Zentangle makes jumping into this addicting illustration technique easy and fun. With step-by-step full color photographs and detailed written instructions, this is a great guide for those who are new to or curious to learn more about this addicting hobby. Reviewed by Melissa Conner

Joy of Zentangle an EXCELLENT choice for the beginning Tangler to start on their Zentangle Journey with well crafted how-to steps, excellent pictures, inspirational stories and beautiful examples. All you need is pen, paper, and this book book to get you started on your Zentangle journey. Certified Zentangle Teachers: Suzanne McNeill, Sandy Steen Bartholomew and Maria Browning have authored most of the first 6 Zentangle books. Now the best of the best from these books and a few new tangles have been added to this Overview edition. Find 101+ tangles in one place. The differences between the small books 16-20 pagse and this book and this 160 page book is the high presentation quality. The photography is very nice and most of the pages are dedicated to a single tangle with how-to steps and inspiration concepts or thought to give futher understanding to the Joy that Zentangle has brought to many lives. Additional info is included to offer the new budding artist exploring Zentangle an understanding what focus means to cultivating creativity, stress reduction and relaxation. Ideas for working with 3-D object, Zendala / Mandalas, and much more are included. -- Sharla R. Hicks CZT, Soft Expressions

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Reduce Stress and Increase Creativity with the Relaxing Art of Zentangle

Do you tangle? This book will teach you how! Inside you will learn the basic theory of Zentangle (R) and find instructions for drawing more than 100 tangles from Certified Zentangle Teachers, including Suzanne McNeill, Sandy Steen Bartholomew, and Marie Browning. This beautiful book is filled with examples of Zentangle tiles and Zentangle-Inspired Art, as well as Zentangle craft projects and compelling stories from those who have improved their well-being through Zentangle. All you need is a pen, paper, and this book to get started on your Zentangle journey.

Inside you'll find:

  • More than 100 tangles broken down into easy-to-follow steps
  • Personal stories from others who have increased their creativity and well-being through Zentangle
  • Galleries of Zentangle art

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Design Originals; First Edition (November 1, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1574214276
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1574214277
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.33 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.4 x 8.9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,333 ratings

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    Suzanne McNeill is often known as a Trendsetter for arts and crafts. Dedicated to hands-on creativity, she constantly tests, experiments, and invents something new and exciting. Suzanne is the woman behind Design Originals, a publishing company dedicated to all things fun and creative. She is a designer, artist, columnist, TV personality, publisher, art instructor, author, and lover of everything hands-on. She was the 2011 winner of the Craft and Hobby Association's Industry Achievement Award.

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    An author, illustrator, cartoonist, mixed-media artist, and a Certified Zentangle® Teacher, Sandy likes to fuse together all these passions, as well as hand-lettering and sketch-noting. She runs an Etsy store (Bumblebat) and a studio in her converted barn (Beez Ink), and publishes her own comics and Inspiration Sketchbooks (Bumblebat Books). Drawing on the walls, reading YA novels, hula hooping, and watching movies - top her list for Fun.

    Sandy lives with her two kids and a cat in their colorful, mixed-media house in New Hampshire.

    Visit her website for samples of her work and inspiration: www.SandySteenBartholomew.com

    or her blog: www.BeezInTheBelfry.com to see what she is up to lately.

    To read her comics, check out her Patreon site: http://www.patreon.com/SandyBee

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    Marie Browning is the consummate craft designer and writer. For over 25 years Marie has inspired countless crafters internationally with her vast knowledge of mediums, products and techniques. She is the bestselling author of numerous craft books and has created designs for various consumer and industry magazines. In addition to her prolific craft design, Marie also is a creative consultant, assisting manufactures in developing innovative products and identifying new ways to market their products to the craft consumer.

    Marie has taught classes, demonstrated at trade shows and appeared on TV and on-line videos. Her professional expertise and vast knowledge of the craft industry, coupled with her warm and encouraging way of making anyone feel like they can be creative, makes Marie and her company, Marie Browning Creates ™, a true asset to the growth of the creative industry.

    Marie earned a Fine Arts Diploma from Camosun College and attended the University of Victoria. She is a design member of the Crafts and Hobby Association (CHA) and a past board member of the Society of Craft Designers (SCD). In 2004 Marie was selected by Craftrends trade publication as a “ Top Influential Industry Designer”. She lives, gardens and crafts on Vancouver Island in Canada with her husband Scott and her family, Katelyn, Curtis, Lucy, Lena and Jonathan.

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Excellent book to start out--warning ADDICTIVE
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Excellent book to start out--warning ADDICTIVE
I tried a few Zentangle squares and quickly realized I needed some ideas and techniques. This book is a great starting point--and even all you need for quite a while. The book illustrates a number of patterns but also gives the principles of Zentangles --where you start with a border on (usually) a square tile of thick paper and then move on to a "string" (a scribble that divides up your space) and then how to fill with patterns.These designs are addictive and very fun for relaxation. You end up focusing on your drawing and shading and forgetting all the annoying things for a half an hour or so--very medicinal.This book is useful and will get you started well.
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Joanna D.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book to start out--warning ADDICTIVE
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I tried a few Zentangle squares and quickly realized I needed some ideas and techniques. This book is a great starting point--and even all you need for quite a while. The book illustrates a number of patterns but also gives the principles of Zentangles --where you start with a border on (usually) a square tile of thick paper and then move on to a "string" (a scribble that divides up your space) and then how to fill with patterns.

These designs are addictive and very fun for relaxation. You end up focusing on your drawing and shading and forgetting all the annoying things for a half an hour or so--very medicinal.

This book is useful and will get you started well.
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Joanna D.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book to start out--warning ADDICTIVE
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2022
I tried a few Zentangle squares and quickly realized I needed some ideas and techniques. This book is a great starting point--and even all you need for quite a while. The book illustrates a number of patterns but also gives the principles of Zentangles --where you start with a border on (usually) a square tile of thick paper and then move on to a "string" (a scribble that divides up your space) and then how to fill with patterns.

These designs are addictive and very fun for relaxation. You end up focusing on your drawing and shading and forgetting all the annoying things for a half an hour or so--very medicinal.

This book is useful and will get you started well.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A healing artform!
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2015
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By far the best Zentangle book I have read so far. I have looked through several different books seeking to understand and learn this art. This book gave a wonderful explanation of the background, purpose, and benefits of Zentangle. Through the use of this book, I have been able to unlock a new creativity and am creating beautiful pieces of art. I am finding myself craving time to tangle. It brings a calming that I have been seeking. It is equivalent to time spent in meditation.
When I started tangling, I was copying the designs in the book and found online. Before too long, as promised in the book, my tangles are flowing and my designs just come. I don't have to think about them as my pen/pencil just flows from one design to the next creating a random yet beautiful work.
This is a wonderful way for someone with anxiety or attention deficit issues to be able to clear their head and find a place of relaxation and peace. I am sleeping better since I have been tangling for about the last 30 minutes prior to bedtime. I am a happier person, more peaceful, and less restless. Tangling can happen anywhere. You can tangle on a napkin, a paper cup, a scrap paper. I have a sketchbook I have been using. I also have been using porcelain paint pens and tangling on coffee mugs, plates and platters. I plan to try a large canvas soon. It's an art form that has been around for years, yet has been hidden. And yet it is so very much more than art. It is healing.
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4.0 out of 5 stars bought used copy
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024
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I had borrowed a copy of this, along with a couple of other zentangle books, from my local library before I decided to purchase this one. It has a nice variety of tangles & good instructions for how to draw each. Many tangles include variations, and there are also more involved drawings that include some of the tangles in the book. The only thing I’d like is if it included more kinds of tangles, like borders &/or letters, but this is a great beginning/intermediate book that gives a nice overview of the subject.
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5.0 out of 5 stars It's all about the tangling, Grasshopper.
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2014
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Really great ideas, suggestions and instructions in this book. As a newbie, I appreciated how it starts with basics and progresses to advanced techniques, covering shading, as well as the use of color. Joy of Zentangle stresses the importance of individual expression and gives tips on some of the places one can find inspiration. The illustrations are beautiful, and the supplies are simple and inexpensive. I doubt most readers will initially invest in the "professional" tools offered for order in the book, but I was able to achieve good results with a fine-tipped pen and some good paper. You do want to use paper that won't allow the ink to bleed. For my first zentangle, I used what I had, which was just a pine-point pen and plain white paper. It was ok, but I will be purchasing better paper and some of the recommended pens from my local art supply store. The beauty of this concept is that you can do it anywhere, with a minimum of supplies. I did my first as my 6th graders were taking a vocab test. I'll be interested to see if the many additional benefits they tout, come to fruition. Happy tangling!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Joy of Zentangle - Drawing Your Way to Increased Creativity, Focus, and Well-Being
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2012
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Pattern has been a passion of mine as far back as I can remember. Zentangle has been a part of my life since August 17, 2012, a little over two months.

Since discovering this art form in Joanne Fink's book "Zenspirations - Letters & Patterning", I have purchased nearly every Zentangle book I can find, as well as the kit at Zentangle.com, created by the founders of this art form, Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas.

As a beginner in this art, I found "Joy of Zentangle - Drawing Your Way to Increased Creativity, Focus, and Well-Being" to be comprehensive, informative and truly inspiring. It is a fabulous book.

"Joy" is the perfect word to describe how I feel about this book. "Joy of Zentangle" includes step-by-step illustrations showing how to create each of the 101 tangles presented in Chapter 5. A very high percentage of these 101 tangles are new to me, and the few familiar designs (such as Hollibaugh and Rick's Paradox) are classics that belong in a book as comprehensive as this one.

These are just some of the features that set this book apart from the rest:

The inspiring stories of how Zentangle has touched lives. A little "Chicken Soup for the Zentangle Soul".

Color photographs of objects that inspired some of the tangles shown in the book.

Fun exercises to expand your tangle repertoire.

Better instructions for shading techniques.

The best and most thorough explanation I've found in book form of what Zentangle is.

A foreword/introduction by Alan Giagnocavo, Publisher, Fox Chapel Publishing/Design Originals. He gets it.

This book is an excellent value. Full price or discounted, I think it is worth every penny. I know I'll come back to it time and time again for reference and inspiration.
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Kj Butler
5.0 out of 5 stars Super fun
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Love it! I travel a lot, I never leave without it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great exercise for sufferers of traumatic brain injury
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This is a nice group of exercises for a person with a traumatic brain injury.
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AmazonFan18
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book to have for beginners
Reviewed in Canada on August 13, 2023
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The patterns in the Zentangle book, provide a great face for those, just starting in the Zentangle world.
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Adri M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente para iniciar !
Reviewed in Mexico on August 16, 2020
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Me gusto mucho! Buen libro para iniciar, con ejercicios bien explicados y variados.
Contenta con mi compra 😁
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5.0 out of 5 stars Conosci e scatenati
Reviewed in Italy on June 5, 2021
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Bellssimo, permette di iniziare con calma e scatenare la fantasia. L'ho regalato e chi lo ha ricevuto era entusiasta... credo lo prenderò ancora sia per me che per altre persone
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Great book. Lots of fun.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Book ...a must buy.
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Very helpful...a must buy. I would recommend anyone who is seeking or looking for a self help tutorial book, with deep insight of the subject.
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