Wednesday, April 25, 2012

good day everyone!

good day everyone!
today is my very first post on my new blog.  seems a little pretentious to have a blog, i mean after all what do i have to say worth listening to?  well, actually i don't know, we will just have to see.  for my inaugural post i'll just tell you why i started one.
you see, i've become over the moon about the art form  Z e n t a n g l e (registered) in the last few years and i would have to say that i started a blog because a good deal of the other CZTs have blogs...at least the most successful ones do so i'm going to try my hand.  i must admit i'm not aces on the design of a blog yet but just you wait...i'll get 'er figured out and it'll be cool beans in no time!

i didn't become a CZT to get rich on all of the classes, product and stuff i could sell.   i became a CZT because i think it is just so amazing!  it is incredible to take a small 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" square and with a few pen strokes turn it into a frame worthy work of art.  just as detailed and every bit as artsy-fartsy as the great abstract painters. i love that the materials you use are ARTIST QUALITY...paper, pens, pencils everything.  those things elevate the plain 'ole "doodler" to the stature of ARTISTE' and don't anyone forget it.  it just makes you feel good about yourself to know you have created a masterpiece and everyone can use a little dose of  "feel good" medicine.   

i agree whole hearted that ANYONE can learn, benefit and love   Z e n t a n g l e (registered) and i would like to teach it to them. i know from my own experience of learning what i could glean from the website, zentangle.com and other places on the web, that learning on your own isn't anything compared to being taught from someone who loves it and knows what it is all about. take for example my work from before the czt seminar...
my work was done on scraps of paper (usually at work) and they had no personality, no pizazz....NO SHADING. then i used the same concept on one of the fabulous fabriano tiepolo tiles that i was given at the czt training and along with the shading and the details i had been taught the design comes alive.  how cool is that?!
there is no comparison to learning from the Masters, Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas.  if anyone that is reading this is contemplating going to a CZT seminar I can't stress enough how great of an experience it will be!  everyone is so warm and friendly, especially Rick, Maria, Molly and everyone at Zentangle. 

so that's why i started a blog, so i would have somewhere to put silly bits of knowledge, ask crazy questions and share my love of   Z e n t a n g l e (registered).
well, criminal minds comes on in 15 minutes and i have prattled on enough for the first time.  in the words of the "truman show"...good morning, good afternoon, good evening and good night. 

God bless you and keep you where ever you may be.

herkimer
oh yeah, my person loved czt training too!!