Daily Zen: 2025080401
· drawing tile zentangle experimental 
Experimental. I had this idea of using a Souffle pen on top of watercolor to create a design within another tangle. To test my concept, I chose Crazy ‘Nzepple as the initial tangle because it would give me a variety of blob shapes that I could play with. After coloring all the sections and using pencil to darken the places where all the lines crossed, I drew a single Printemps spiral inside of each blob. I tried to make it the largest size that would fit. This turned out to be an issue in the very small shapes, so they just turned into a puddle of ink.
Throwback Thursday: 2010110501
· zentangle tile drawing experimental 
How do you challenge yourself? As an artist I’m always looking for different things to try as ways to grow and expand my skills. Here, this tile was drawn entirely with my left hand. I even signed and dated the back with my left hand. Why? Well, first of all, I wanted to see if I could. In addition, drawing with your non-dominant hand builds new neural pathways in your brain. It also challenges you to look at things in a different way, and helps you to understand how your students, those that use a differnt hand to draw, are challenged to follow your instructions!
Daily Zen: 2019070601
· drawing tile zentangle poo paper experimental 
I recently visited Holland, Michigan for a little R-and-R with my husband and older daughter. We decided to walk the main, downtown shopping area, looking in various stores. We came across The Bridge , a store that specializes in unique, fair trade, import items. There were some very interesting things in the store, but the most fascinating to me was paper made from elephant dung! I purchased both a small, spiral-bound book and a box of small, loose sheets .