An Artist Labyrinth: Ginny Stiles CZT

This is the first, wildest, wisest thing I know: the soul exists...it is built entirely out of attentiveness.

Saturday, February 24, 2018

Carrying On in Black and White

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Obviously anyone who loves Zentangle® would love black and white too.  It just follows. I posted the beginning of this drawing already ...
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Monday, February 19, 2018

Painting a Mural for the Pool

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My friend, Todd, took a  preliminary  photo of the mural that our Art Club in Hawthorne Community (Leesburg, Fl) has been working on all...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

Keeping Sane With Art

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Last week I signed up for my friend, Jackie's pen and ink class.  Her subject  matter  was some old mailboxes along a road.  But I ...
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Friday, February 2, 2018

Happy Groundhog's Day

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Time for First Friday in Fine Arts at the Hawthorne Community again.  How can it be?  I was just there!  Here I am plugging the Fine Ar...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Desperation Sketching

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Teeny Sketchbook sketches:  I call these " desperation  sketches".   When it's too cold to sit outside (well, windy a...
Monday, January 29, 2018

So What's a Chop?

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This Chinese set of "chops" was given to me by my daughter many years ago.  I have always adored the concept of having one.  ...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

TransZENding and TransluZENce

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You can make small books by binding together Zentangle tiles too! With this one I was trying out the tangle "Surf's Up"...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Going Tiny with Sketchbooks

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Remember the "tiny" sketchbooks I designed this week? (see below)?  Well I decided to try one out yesterday while I waited fo...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Spiral Binding Small Sketchbooks

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With the inspiration of Sketchbook Skools new "zine" I found an article about "tiny" sketchbooks I  rather  liked...
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Monday, January 22, 2018

Urban Sketching in Leesburg, FL

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Thanks to Susan who  organizes  our little sketching group called Fetch a Sketch Trekkers!  Yeah for her!  We had a nice group...maybe 8 ...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Diva Challenge

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The Diva's challenge this week was to take a few everyday objects, trace around them and use that tracing as a string.   (Tangle cha...
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Thursday, January 18, 2018

Urban Sketching (inside because it's cold in FL)

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Been playing with some new pens. They become somewhat addictive.  These two are fountain pens.  A Sailor Profit is a bent-nib pen and t...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

Manikin Part II

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So this is my second try on finishing up my little manikin.  She needed something on her head.  I cut a little hat from foam and glued ...
Saturday, January 6, 2018

Sketching is Not So Much Learning About Art as Learning About Seeing

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I am pulling together some of my sketching resources as I  write  up the marketing materials for the classes I am going to teach at the W...
Sunday, December 31, 2017

We are prophets of a future not our own.

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I wish I could give the artist credit above but the little sketch appeared on Facebook awhile back with no clue to as to it's paint...
Saturday, December 30, 2017

A Challenge for Square One

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This is a combination of 3 different tangles: Organic, Dragon Eye, and Krinkle. I also used the new bold PN Micron Pen for this.   Done...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

A short visit to Beaufort, SC

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A stop in Beaufort, South Carolina on our way to visit my sister in York, SC was an excellent idea.  An old and beautiful little southern...
Friday, December 22, 2017

A Little Bit of Art

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Like so many Zentangle fans I've been following Rick and Maria's blogs during the holidays.  This is one of the very simple but...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Zentangle Birthday Card

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It is time now (even though it's Christmas) to make up a few birthday cards.  And since the founders of Zentangle® (Rick and Marie)...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

A little Rumpus

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This is one of the newer tangles introduced by Rick and Marie (founders of Zentangle®) recently.  It is called "Rumpus" and i...
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Ginny Stiles
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
I live in Madison, Wisconsin and summer for a few months in Lac du Flambeau, WI. I teach watercolor, mixed media and Zentangle classes.
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