I usually manage to get some tangling time, even if I am having a really busy day. One method I use use when time is limited is to tangle on a Bijou tile. Since they are only about two inches square, it doesn’t take long to complete one. A few fit nicely in a thin pencil case along with a tangling board and a few tools, so I can tangle anywhere.
I wanted to do something with Dingbatz today, rather than using my standard daily method. I pulled out my copy of "Zentangle Dingbatz" by Brian Crimmins, CZT and started flipping through the pages. The first thing that attracted my attention was the border on the tag on page 124, so, after drawing a simple border around my tile, I added the Mooka design. Then I decided to repeat the Mookas and create a kind of square in the center of the tile, which also created the triangles in the corners. The corners were a perfect place for Diva Dance!
“In typography, a dingbat is an ornament, character, or spacer used in typesetting, often employed for the creation of box frames.” - Wikipedia We’ve all seen them decorating title pages, the ends of paragraphs or other areas of printed books. Zentangle, and CZT Brian Crimmins in particular, has created a tangled version of this classic concept. It is called Dingbatz, in honor of it’s typographical cousin. Here, we use the stylistic shapes and concepts of the original, but employ tangles as graphical elements.