Zentangle’s Project Pack #01 “is a celebration of the newly released white gel pens from our friends at Sakura, along with a surprise of other tangling tools and tiles to use along with us in the first Project Pack tutorials.”
As Molly notes in the warmup video, “this is a great opportunity to test out these new pens and kind of get used to how they feel.”
SUPPLIES: The first Project Pack is available here ($19.95) in the zentangle.com store and it’s certainly a convenient way to get all the supplies for the project. However for those of us whose budgets are tight, the Introduction video reviews the items in the Project Pack and you might discover you have suitable alternatives in your own Zentangle supplies. Here are a few of the items from the Pack:
Sakura has just released the White Gelly Roll pen in sizes 05, 08 and 10 and tips for working with these lovely new tools are demonstrated throughout this series of videos.
The following chronology is a summary of the videos for Project Pack #01 with links to the individual videos. Either click the video #’s title link or the image itself to view the full video on YouTube.
Note: the tangles included in these videos are each linked to their own post on TanglePatterns where you can also locate these videos.
It isn’t necessary to watch the videos in sequence, but it will be very helpful for you to watch the warmup video first.
Warm-Up
In the warm-up video (15:58) with Maria’s daughter and CZT Molly Hollibaugh, Molly introduces Sakura’s new White Gelly Roll pens and gives some tips on how to get comfortable and work with them.
She begins by putting a loose spiral string down on a black Bijou tile (1:20) with a white charcoal pencil.
Using the largest Gelly Roll, the #10, she tests the nib on the back of the tile to get a feel for the how the ink flows. Molly shares that she likes to do that with all her pens, “for me to just get the feel for it, so just a little squiggle here and there“.
Next Molly starts drawing orbs beginning with a tiny one at the center of the spiral and slightly increasing each one in size as she moves along the charcoal string. “Ever so slightly that each next orb is just a little bit bigger, ever so slightly slowly drawing each orb, no need to rush just taking your time, one stroke at a time reminding yourself to breathe. and turn your tile.“
Once the orbs are added, (5:33) Molly starts at the outer edge and adds strokes going between the orbs and stopping at the next string line. She changes pens to the 05 (7:40) and adds aura lines (“simple arcs“) to the edges of the orbs. When those are complete she changes back to the 10 and adds ink to the outside edges between the orbs.
Finally she adds graphite shading (13:22) to complete her tile.
Video 1
In Day 1’s video (7:53) with Rick’s company (and Molly’s hand), Maria tangles Dewd on a black tile using the 10 Sakura Gelly Roll pen and finishes it by shading with a graphite pencil then adding a white charcoal pencil “glow” or halo around the outer edges.
“Martha named this because she thought it looked like dew on the morning grass so we went with that dew drops – Dewd.“
Video 2
In Video 2 (7:29) – Bales Part 1, Maria’s daughter and CZT Martha Huggins tangles a variation of the Zentangle-original Bales on a black apprentice tile using the 10 white Sakura Gelly Roll pen and highlighting with a white charcoal pencil.
Video 3
In Video 3 (5:12) – Bales Part 2, Martha tangles a second variation of the Zentangle-original Bales on a black apprentice tile using the 10 white Sakura Gelly Roll pen and highlighting with a white charcoal pencil.
Video 4
In Video 4 (10:44) of the series, Molly tangles on a black prestrung Zendala tile using the tangle Striping and adding highlights with a white charcoal pencil. Towards the end of the video Molly shows before and after shading and some detail variations on additional black Zendala tiles.
Video 5
In Video 5 (13:58) of the series, Rick tangles Crescent Moon with a white Sakura Gelly Roll 10 on a regular black tile.
Video 6
In Video 6 (12:56) of the series, Rick tangles Paradox on a black 3Z tile using an 08 white Sakura Gelly Roll pen.
Video 7
In Video 7 (8:19) of the series, Zentangle co-founders Rick and Maria tangle Pokeleaf along with Molly’s daughters Mazzy and Indy, and the help of Molly’s hand. Maria tangles on a Renaissance tan tile with the 08 and 10 white Sakura Gelly Roll pens. Shading is added with graphite and a white charcoal pencil.
Video 8
In Video 8 (28:13) of the series, Molly tangles the tangleation of Huggins referred to as Crazy Huggins on a black apprentice Zentangle tile with the white Sakura Gelly Roll pens. She fills the Crazy Huggins spaces with Shattuck (16:01) and Crazy ‘Nzeppel (18:39). Molly finishes by shading and adding highlights with a graphite pencil and a white charcoal pencil.
And there you have it. This recap of Zentangle’s Project Pack #01 will make it easy for you to find all the related videos.
Remember the images above are linked to their YouTube video, simply click the image to go to the video. Also, the tangles included are each linked to their own post on TanglePatterns where you can also locate these videos.
For future reference you can locate this post on the TUTORIALS and the VIDEO tabs in the pink alphabetic tangle menu bar. You can also locate it in the TANGLES BY TYPE section in the left sidebar with the tag projectpack.
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Zentangle Project Pack Summaries on TanglePatterns
For your convenience here are the links to all of my Zentangle Project Pack summaries:- November 2017: Introducing Sakura’s White Gelly Roll Pens
- December 2017: Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2017 Edition - A Stroll Down Memory Lane
- June 2018: A Zentangle Ensemble
- December 2018: Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2018 Edition – Making a Zentangle Spinner
- April 2019: Zentangle Cartouches
- August 2019: No Mistakes
- December 2019: Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2019 Edition – Light and Shade
- March 2020: Dancing in the Moonlight
- April 2020: Spring has Sprung
- July 2020: The Legend of Zentangle
- September 2020: Fee-PHI-Fo-Fun!
- December 2020: Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2020 Edition - Zentangle Renaissance
- April 2021: Layers and Transitions
- May 2021: Accessing the Artist Within
- September 2021: Alphaborders, Letter Forms, Alphabets and the Birth of Zentangle
- December 2021: Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2021 Edition - Keeping Score
- March 2022: The Kaleidoscope of Our Lives
- August 2022: Introducing Zentangle's new Translucen-Z Tiles
- December 2022: Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2022 Edition - Zentomology
- March 2023: Blossoming Tangles
- August 2023: Organic Tangles: Tangles of a Botanical Nature
- December 2023: Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2023 Edition - Exploring the Spiral
- March 2024: The Birth of the Zentangle Method
- August 2024: Crescent Moon & Aura
- December 2024: Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2024 Edition - Drawing Behind
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These are the links to my Zentangle Apprentice Project Pack summaries:- January - February 2021: The Basics of the Zentangle Method
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November 11, 2017 | 
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I saw the intro from 2017 on the White Sakura pens. For totally different art projects, I’ve used the Uniball Signo UM 153 & like it a lot. The downside, the ink dries out if you don’t use the pen for awhile. (even if it’s never been used & still in the box)
Has anyone had the problem of the White Sakura pens doing that?
They both have caps to put over the points when not in use.
It would be helpful to know before I purchase.
Thanks so very much for a terrific site, Linda.
I used it years ago & would use small mixed media paper sketchbooks, marking off ahead of time 3.5″ squares so I could carry it with me while waiting at doctors offices, etc. I could get two on each side of the paper & use front & back.
Thanks Ginger. I suggest trying my “A Way to Restart a Clogged Micron” discovery, it works with permanent ink but it might also work with Gel pens – I haven’t had the need to try that.
thank you