ZENSdays With Guest Designer, Jenn Dove

Welcome to another installment of ZENSdays. Pam here covering for Lynell as she is out of the country at the moment. Today I'm featuring a few creations by one of our favorite designers, Jennifer Dove of DoveArt Studios. She is best known for her amazing Copic coloring skills, and as a teacher of the same. If you can ever find the time, I heartily recommend that you take one of her coloring "Boot Camps".

Today, however, we're showing off her mad skills with what we call "Stentangling", the use of Dreamweaver stencils as the beginning to great tangling designs. Wayne Harlow, of course, is the designer of all of Dreamweaver stencils, including the Tree Line design as shown above. Jenn took this very popular design to a whole other world with her doodles and tangles, and the stark contrast of predominant black with white is exciting to the eye. Below is the opposite version:

An additional thought...Dreamweaver now has a cutting die for this same design. How cool would it be to die cut the design, tangle/doodle over it, and pop it up off of a cool background of hot colors?
This last creation by Jenn, features the Teacup stencil (which, by the way, is also available as a die), which she has stacked and tangled, and added shading with texture using her Copic markers, for more dimension.

Each week, Wayne and Lynell have been posting their ZENspirations on Wednesday, to encourage artists of every level from beginning to advanced, to play with this fun, never-ending trend, each unique in it's own way, and  the perfect way to make every Dreamweaver stencil design your own. Be sure to continue to follow Dreamweaver on Facebook, Pinterest, and especially here on the Dream It Up! blog. From the right hand column, you can sign on to follow by email, so that you never miss out on our ZENSdays posts!

ZENSdays With Wayne and Lynell #15

 Hi! Pam here, posting for this week's ZENSday inspiration, while Lynell is off to the UK on a teaching trip! No, neither of these creations were done by me. Both were tangled by our Certified Zentangle expert, Wayne, before Lynell finished his creations off as cards. Actually, both are beautiful enough to be framed works of art in my opinion.

The top shows off what makes the ZEN Flower stencil so special...it's a wonderful way to practice your tangles and doodles. Nice little areas, and plenty of them. The stencil design was first paste-embossed in Glossy White, and once dry, provides the perfect surface to tangle on. I find it so fascinating to see how many varieties of Zentangle patterns there are, and yet these Certified artists are constantly creating new ones.

For example, I've been looking at both the Zen Flower designs above, and the Open Owl design below, and cannot see where any of the tangles were replicated in the other's design!

If you've been doodling for years, you'll find that many of the Dreamweaver Stencil designs are perfect to add your patterns to, without having to create any shapes to work them into. Especially the designs that are referred to as "Open", such as the Open Owl, Open Elephant, Open Butterfly, Open Bird. So...if you are OPEN to creativity, you'll want to get oodles of these designs for your doodles. And tangles of course.