Zentangle® Dingbatz are a fun and 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.
Zentangle® Dingbatz: Patterns & Projects for Dynamic Tangled Ornaments & Decorations is a new book by Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT), coach, and speaker Brian Crimmins. Available in June, this book 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.
About the Author:
Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT), coach, and speaker Brian Crimmins has taught the Zentangle(R) 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(R)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(R), and he challenges his students to make their own.
My Thoughts
I know, I know. Your first question is what the heck is this book about. What is a zetangle? What is a dingbatz? Let me help. So the zentangle is a method of making structured patterns into beautiful images using simple shapes and lines in a relaxing manner. Dingbatz are decorations on paper. In a book there may be a design underneath the chapter title or on the corner of some pages. This book will help you to make both. Awesome words.... I know. This book's goal is to combine the two and use zentangles to make interesting dingbatz. I love writing like this. I feel like J.K. Rowling. It will help you to make eclectic and different types of items. Some of the items in the Table of Contents that this method can be used for is scrapbooking, name tags, place cards, gift tags, etc.
I can tell you one thing, it is definitely relaxing. I had a particularly bad day with my two year old. We are entering "those" years an the tantrums were epic. My normally laid back child had been a "child of the corn" that day and I need to relax. Being pregnant, I can't drink so I pulled this book out and decided to give it a whirl. Next thing I knew, two hours had gone by. It lets your mind shut off. Things like this are my version of therapy. It feels so good to zone out sometimes and not have to think. I definitely could see this being something fun to try for a holiday place card or some gift tags. If you are a calligraphy or any kind of pen or pencil drawing you definitely should give this method a try.
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