Time to Tangle with Colors: Coloring Ideas and Techniques Inspired by Zentangle®

by Marie Browning

Breathe life into your tangles with color!

• 48 fun tangles and border patterns to learn, practice, and fill with color
• Beginner-friendly instruction for color basics and step-by-step tangling
• Inspiring ideas for backgrounds, color schemes, and a variety of techniques
• Project suggestions for bookmarks, scrapbook pages, personalized cards, and more

Zentangle (R) is a relaxing and rewarding process that allows people of all ages to create artistic designs with repetitive patterns called tangles. Enjoy the experience that tangling brings!

Drawing simple tangles can be done anywhere and no special artistic talent is needed. Anyone who can hold a pen can create tangles! Zentangle (R) was created by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas as a way for anyone to relax and create beautiful art. Drawing tangle patterns is designed to reduce stress, improve focus, get in touch with life, solve problems, turn mistakes into positives, be innovative, and become more creative.

This book was inspired by the techniques and patterns of Zentangle (R), and by author Marie Browning's desire to play with color. More than simply coloring regions of a tangle design, Time to Tangle with Colors offers lessons which enable even the novice artist to use a brush pen to color 48 delightful tangles. Create borders, animals, plants, flowers, hearts, and anything else you can imagine for decorating journals, notebooks, scrapbooks, greeting cards, bookmarks, crafts, and more.

Inside this information-packed 48-page booklet, Marie Browning pushes the envelope of Zentangle (R) into the living dimension of color. Using easy to follow steps, Marie illustrates over 40 new tangles, encouraging you to add vibrant color to your tangles.

Marie also offers a crash course in color theory, color scheme suggestions, how to make interesting backgrounds, and explores her own favorite art materials, from the permanent Sakura (R) Pigma (TM) Micron 01 black pigment ink pen, a rainbow selection of Tombow Dual Brush Markers, and Sakura (R) Stardust Gelly Roll pens to Glimmer Mist sprays, stencils, stamps, colored pencils, and more.

Learn new tangling techniques and start adding touches of color to your Zentangle-inspired art, with Time to Tangle with Colors!

Genres: Art, Drawing, Nonfiction, Crafts

52 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Theresa]

If you are looking to add color to your tangles, this is the place to go. It has a very concise description of color theory. The exercises shown are gorgeous. My one complaint is that a lot of the techniques hinge on having one particular, really expensive brand of markers. I'm not a professional or commercial artist. I really like the affordability of the basic stuff. This makes me pine for things that are not in the budget.

Don't skip it for the marker advertisement if you are really interested in color, though. It will give you a quick, thorough overview on color theory.

[Sue Sharp]

If you like to "doodle", this book is great for adding color, depth, and new designs... even if you think you don't know how to draw!

[Sally Mander]

small, short book, but it has quite nice ideas for bringing color into your tangles.

[Elle]

An introduction to a fun way to enhance one's Zentangle art. Browning explains color theory in addition to types of pens and color techniques. Many examples colorfully illustrate the pages. However, the book would be difficult for a first timer to follow as there is not an in-depth introduction to Zentangle (some common patterns are demonstrated but not until halfway through the text).

[Marjorie Smith]

You will find everything you need to get started with Zentangle or "tangling". This is a method of drawing similiar to doodling but being mindful of what you are doing. I use zentangle to increase my concentration as well as keep my stress down. All you need is a fine tip pen and paper. Anyone can Zentangle.

[Kathi]

Awesome book of color!

I am an artist that also uses color when drawing. Time to Tangle with Colors by Marie teaches the very best of techniques for tangling and coloring/shading!
A great beginner book for those who love the infusion of color in their work.

[Jackie]

It's a little book with a lot of punch. If you want to some coloring ideas and techniques for your tangles pick up this book. Besides suggestions for what tools to use for coloring there are also plenty of variations of tangles demonstrated to stretch your creativity.

[Ceitag]

As I was reading this, I kept thinking about how I could use zentangles when I'm scrapbooking. I'm away to get my scrapbook out right now!

[Threedogs]

Use this and other Zentangle books in my work with Veterans. Helps with mindfulness and concentration which are impaired in PTSD.

[Michelle]

Very useful guide to injecting color into tangles.