I have created an Advent Zentangle Project to take us through to Christmas Eve. It is based on the song The 12 Days of Christmas and I hope you will join with me and use the prompts suggested below. Participants may choose which prompts they wish to do and those with more time or larger Zen needs may choose to do all of the prompts. I don’t want anyone to feel they have to do everything, or feel guilty that they’re not ‘keeping up’ - the idea is to have fun and find our Zen.
Participants may start any time during December, but it’s not necessary to start at the beginning. The idea is that by December 24th you should have 12 individual tiles/drawings. You could do them on a calendar, put all of them on one larger piece of paper, or put 12 separate traditional Zentangle tiles into an album. You can draw on whatever you like - traditional 3.5” Zentangle tiles, white paper, coloured paper or digital Zentangle. Please post your work to the group - we love seeing how everyone interprets the prompts differently! And please add the hashtag #AdventProject so we can easily find everyone’s beautiful contributions.
There will be a variety of prompts through the project ..... You can choose however you feel led by the prompts...
- Partridge in a Pear Tree - Pear shape string - draw the outline of a pair and tangle anyway you want!
- Two Turtle Doves - Hearts - any way you want to interpret this - Heart String, Heart Patterns, heart shaped paper...
- Three French Hens - Take Inspiration from the French Flag, the Tricolour. You could do a string like the flag or red, white and blue
- Four Calling Birds - Feathers
Find some inspiration here
- Five Golden Rings - start with 5 circles on your page and see where it takes you!
- Six Geese a Laying - egg string... draw an egg shape on your tile and decorate however you feel led.
- Seven Swans a Swimming - water
Some ideas here
- Eight Maids a Milking - white on black paper
- Nine Ladies Dancing - take inspiration from the world of music - incorporate some musical notes into your tile, tangle a musical instrument, take some words of your favourite carol...
- Ten Lords a Leaping - jumping beans pattern
Here’s the stepout...Jumping Beans
- Eleven Pipers Piping - steampunk - Some great examples here
- Twelve Drummers Drumming - Henna Drum
Find the stepout here
I hope you enjoy this little project and I can’t wait to see all of your beautiful art.
