Creative Living: Canvas recycling tips coming

Information on creating your own background paper and making a zentangle will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. and on Thursday at noon.

Theresa Cifali, mixed media artist and owner of The Altered Canvas, will show how to create your own background paper to coordinate with cards, scrapbooking and other paper crafts. She will demonstrate two different techniques for doing this. She’s from Valhalla, New York.

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What is a Zentangle? Deborah Pace is an artist and designer, and she’s going to explain what a Zentangle is, how it got started and what supplies are needed. She’ll also talk about what surfaces you can use to create this art form. Deborah’s company is AarTvark Cre8tions in Rancho Cucamonga, California.

Information on making purses, using waste canvas for needlework stitching, and doing a faux marble finish on walls will be the featured topics on “Creative Living” on Tuesday at noon and on Saturday at 2 p.m.

Designer, author and sewing instructor, Linda McGehee will show how to create purses with multiple zippers and compartments. Her company is Ghee’s, and she’s from Shreveport, Louisiana.

Paul and Linda Sheehan, owners of GhostStitchers, will demonstrate how to use waste canvas for needlework stitching. They’ll also show how the canvas is attached to the fabric. Their company is in Canandaigua, New York.

Barbara Wurden, owner of Faux Fun, Inc. in Long Beach, California., will explain how to do marbleized wall glazing which isn’t intended to recreate the look of marble on a wall; it’s more to give the feeling of marble. She’ll also show what supplies are needed and how to do the technique.

Zen Doodle

Many Zen doodle designs begin with a planned shape or form in mind. Other times, the approach is more abstract with less attachment to the form the art will take on naturally.

The process often begins as a pebble hitting the surface of the water, and patterns ripple out and emerge as the pen flows and the composition grows. Suddenly we look up and realize we've been in "the zone" with no sense of how much time has passed.

A repeating pattern need not be confined to an identifiable or symmetrical shape. It's as if the art is a living, breathing thing, growing with its own agenda, like a wild vine along a trellis. However, we think you'll agree that whether neatly confined or left to run wild, all of the designs are an abstraction of creative genius.

Sometimes beginning a Zen doodle masterpiece can seem daunting. This is where basic (or not-too-basic), familiar shapes, objects or forms come in handy. By having the confines of a shape, it is much easier to dive in and begin repeating patterns when you have a line to cling to.

Visit CreateMixedMedia.com/zendoodle for bonus content.

“Creative Living" is produced and hosted by Sheryl Borden. The show is carried by more than 118 PBS stations in the U.S., Canada, Guam and Puerto Rico and is distributed by Westlink.