Calm.
Where I live, we have monsoon rains in the Summer. Generally, what that means is that, when it rains, it rains hard! There’s lots of wind before and during the storm and also lots of lightning. And it can be almost impossible to sleep.
This simple, all-over pattern of Pea-nuckle was created during a real humdinger of a storm late at night! We got over an inch of rain in about an hour. There were hundreds of lightning bolts and lots of fierce wind. The bedroom was a constant light show and the noise sounded like a jet plane was going to land any minute. It was kind of scary!
I got up and went into the studio and just wanted to tangle something easy enough to take my mind off all the crazy going on outside. This was a perfect choice. I looked up about an hour later and realized the storm had passed some time during the tangling, but I hadn’t even noticed because I was in the Zen of drawing!
This is why I tangle!
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen. Shading done with graphite pencil.