This course will celebrate the wonderful MFA Boston jewelry collection, and a previous exhibit of Boston made jewelry in Arts & Craft style. Selected pieces will be the inspiration for expanded, detailed Zentangle exploration. We’ll add color with markers, colored pencils, gel pens, and chalk pencils. We’ll use Tangles to represent the swirls and structure of the jewelry as well as to decorate within the piece. Templates will be provided as needed. Previous Zentangle experience is required. All sessions are recorded for later viewing, you do not need to be present at the live session to participate.
Materials:
Paper (watercolor paper, bristol paper, card stock, drawing paper, anything fairly smooth) cut to 6” x 6” or larger
Pencil, regular No. 2
Pen that writes nicely (Micron brand are wonderful), in black, gray, or other colors
Tortillon/blending stump (alternatively a small piece of soft paper rolled to a point will work, or in a pinch a cotton swab)
Colored markers (I use alcohol ink markers)
Colored pencils (I use Prismacolor)
Gold Gel pen
White Gel pen
White chalk pencil (General’s brand is very good)
Other colors of chalk pencil as needed
Susan is originally from Massachusetts. After graduating from High School she went west earning a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from Brigham Young University. Her education continued with a Post Baccalaureate Certificate from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and a Museum Studies Master’s Degree from Harvard. While working as a graphic designer, she often needed illustrations for a project and completed them herself experimenting with a number of techniques. Continuing her love of learning, she became a Certified Zentangle® Teacher in 2019 and began virtual classes in 2020. Moves with her family have taken her to Oregon, Virginia, New Jersey back to Massachusetts, and most recently to Utah. She has shown her work wherever she has lived, combining observations of each place into her work.
Susan McFarlane
No Class Mar 19
