Yea! My Zentangle book is finally done! I am pleased to announce that “Time to Tangle in Colors” published by Design Originals will be out in the stores this fall! Here is a Zentangled dragonfly colored with the Dual Brush Pens. The little dragonflies are made using the Tombow Tangle […]
Dual Brush Pens
5 Aja Wells is an illustrator and graphic designer hailing from Hawaii. After deciding she wanted to be an artist when she was four years old, she earned her B.A. in studio art from Humboldt Start University. Currently, Aja is working primarily in the childrens market. Aja recently featured some great […]
Artist’s Corner – Artist Profile: Aja Wells
1 We know that Tombow Dual Brush Pens are used in studios, art schools and households around the country. But did you know that they are also a main stay in the cartoon department at Warner Brothers? At a tradeshow earlier this year, Fred Bode, Warner Brother’s Director of Character Art […]
Artist’s Corner – Greetings from Hollywood
Paper Posies is a monthly scrapbooking kit club dedicated to bringing theirmembers the hottest and newest scrapbook products on the market. The kits are chock-full of patterned papers, specialty papers, cardstock, always two alphabets, ribbons/trims, tons of embellishments, and an alterable project (and this month, some added Tombow gifts!). Their Design […]
Paper Posie and Tombow Team-Up!
2 We promised you a manga illustration and a Tombow Tale in our May 27 post, and that’s exactly what you’re going to get! This illustration, created by Nate Morris, is featured on the packaging for our Shojo Dual Brush Pen Set. We were so inspired by the illustration that we […]
Artist’s Corner – Fun-filled fantasies with Shojo Dual Brush Pen
“tangle” supplies; Tombow MONO Adhesive Dots , Tomobw Dual Brush Pen – N15 black , Tomow White Gel Pen the idea of the “ZENTANGLE” is interesting to me. all those doodles in the notebooks of my college classes actually have a name now! well, unfortunately i am not much of a doodler […]
DT Spotlight – Sarah and her scrap-tangle
Ever heard of it? I had never heard the word til the end of last month when Joanna with Tombow challenged us to create a project with this technique. Basically it’s a fancy word for doodling, but with more detail. You can read more about it here. I found some […]
Zentangle Card
A sneak preview of what I have been working on – coloring Zentangles with Tombow Dual Brush Pens. What is a Zentangle®? It is basically a doodle – a doodle that reduces stress and improves your focus while you create a beautiful piece of art. Traditional Zentangles® were developed by […]
What is a Zentangle?
2 Irina Troitskaya is a freelance illustrator and tutor at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow, Russia. Her artwork has been commissioned by Elle, Afisha, Popular Finances, Kids, Hewlett-Packard, Alfa-Capital, Yandex and BMW – to name a few. Her works are in private collections in Russia, Spain, […]
Artist’s Corner – Artist Profile: Irina Troitskaya
4 Drawing portraits can be a challenging experience for artists. Even seasoned vets can find recreating exact skin tones, eye colors and hair colors a difficult task. We want to make life a little easier for our artist friends, so we created the Tombow Dual Brush Portrait Set. The set, which […]
Artist’s Corner – A portrait that even Dorian Gray would ...
30 Terry Madden is the host of the popular and nationally syndicated PBS television series, “Terry Madden’s Watercolor Workshop.” He and his wife Judy own an art gallery in Stuart, Fla., and together, they have written nearly half a dozen workbooks on watercolor art. The former investment banker turned artist is a […]
Artist’s Corner – Artist Profile: Terry Madden
This month Tombow is featuring their wonderful Dual Brush Tip markers. I colored Maya Road’s chipboard letters with four of the markers (see supply list for colors I used) using the brush tip end. Then for the inside of the card I hand wrote “missing” with the pen tip end. […]