Nancy Domnauer (linedotcalm.com) recently introduced me to a fascinating technique through an excellent online class, Klimt Ribbons. Introduced at last year's ZenAgain conference with Rick and Maria, it involves using bits of the beautiful patterned backgrounds in Gustav Klimt's work to create tiles. Ribbons for the string, and fragments for the fill, lots of bright colors and gold ink--it's a rabbit hole if there ever was one!!!
My first tile
As you can see, I wanted more and more color! I used Koi water color brush pens, with the gold metallic Gelly Roll on top.
Three weeks later, I was fortunate to take another online Klimt class with CZT Tracey Nicholson. In this class, the string took on a more mosaic look.
This time I used Prismacolors.
My Zendala Moments 05 tile had a little Klimt effect!
These tiles don't use a lot of defined tangle patterns, per se, but for me, the colors and 10 nib on the gold pen get me in the Zen zone!
Have you tried this technique?
Thanks for stopping by!
Wow, what a wonderful inspiriring post! Your Klimt ribbons look fantastic on those zendala's. A different and very refreshing approch to fill the zendala's that I surely gonna explore too. Thank you very much!
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