Zentangle Dingbatz: Patterns & Projects for Dynamic Tangled Ornaments & Decorations

by Brian Crimmins CZT

Overview

Dingbatz are an easy way to incorporate the fundamentals of Zentangle into a wide variety of creative projects and bring attention and mindfulness to the smallest corners of your life.

• Fun complement to hand lettering, scrapbook, and art journaling projects
• Beginner-friendly with few materials required to get started
• Techniques to practice and a world full of canvases to bring beauty and joy to others
• Author Brian Crimmins is a coach, speaker and Certified Zentangle Teacher who uses the Zentangle Method in his individual and group coaching and workshops.

Use Dingbatz to add flair to whatever you’re working on–they provide a wonderful complement to any hand lettering, scrapbook and art journaling project.

Small enough to provide a sense of instant gratification when you make them, these “Zenbellishments” require few materials, making them accessible to all skill levels from beginner to advanced.

This book will introduce you to how Dingbatz are constructed, and how to build from that basic structure to create designs uniquely your own.

Zentangle Dingbatz includes a variety of projects that will allow you to practice using Dingbatz not only as stand-alone designs, but also as accents and enhancements to other art projects.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781497204171
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/11/2019
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	372,819
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT), coach and speaker Brian Crimmins has taught the Zentangle® Method in art museums, tea houses, and in private homes. He has also exhibited and sold his own Zentangle-inspired art in galleries and at community art shows. Inspired by a concept called “Dingbatz” introduced by Zentangle founders Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas in 2017, Brian started creating his own inspired Dingbatz designs, and quickly began teaching them in classes and to other CZTs at conferences. He loves to demonstrate the unique anatomy of Dingbatz with Zentangle, and he challenges his students to make their own.

Table of Contents

Foreword 8

Introduction 10

Chapter 1 About Zentangle 14

Introducing Zentangle 15

Steps for Classic Zentangle 18

Supplies 22

Chapter 1 Workbook 28

Chapter 2 Dingbatz Anatomy 38

Surface 39

Shape 43

Frames 46

Strings 51

Tangles 58

Zen-bellishments 62

Final Thoughts 67

Chapter 2 Workbook 68

Chapter 3 Projects 84

Tile Practice 86

Greeting Cards and Envelopes 92

Weathergram 99

Zine 103

Chapter 3 Workbook 108

Chapter 4 More Ways to Use Dingbatz 114

Journals 115

Scrapbooks 116

Place Cards 117

Sketchbooks 118

Monograms 120

Name Tags 122

Lettering and Calligraphy 123

Gift Tags 124

Chapter 4 Workbook 126

Chapter 5 Tangle Directory 130

Chapter 5 Workbook 146

Acknowledgments 158

About the Author 159

Photo Credits 159

Index 160

Editorial Reviews

Love...love...love!

L.E.T.'s Center for the Healing and Creative Arts - Debbie Farrow

This quick introduction to a twist on zentangles is filled with fun ideas and great ways to get started quickly and easily.

Strathcona County Library - Angela Kublik

Excellent.

The Tireless Tangler

The friendly text, playful naming conventions, and full-color printing helps make the many diagrams and photography throughout into a fun and engaging drawing book that anyone would enjoy.

Crafts R.Us