Back from Seminar!

I'm back and still on cloud 9 from everything I learned I could do!  It was a fabulous CZT (Certified Zentangle Teacher) seminar in Rhode Island, Providence.  I learned so much, I accomplished so much and I now believe that "anything is possible one stroke at a time"™ as they say!

I was so surprised at how quickly I was able to let go and experiment with my tangling.  We did a fair amount of tangling in class, learning some of the basic principles.  The main focus was to teach us to teach, it really is Maria, Rick's and Molly's (their daughter) methodology that clinches the whole thing and puts it together so nicely that it is impossible to be dissatisfied with ones work.

Here is the very first tile we tangled:

And here, this is me just tangling at night (or early hours of the morning) before leaving to return to South Africa:

We were given a sketch book as a gift (the cover is personalised with our name in a beautiful calligraphy font penned by Maria herself), and I used this notebook to make all my notes from class, and all my practice tangles etc..  I also left spaces each day under my notes to insert the corresponding tiles we worked on, attaching them with photo corners.  So, if you see some ink showing through from the backside, that's why.

And a picture of me with Maria Thomas and Rick Roberts, the founders of Zentangle ®.

I'll be back during the week with a card or two and of course, some more tangled tiles!

Thanks for visiting, have a brilliant day!