Inktober Tangles - Day 11 - B-Fly by Paz Munoz Camacho CZT
Nothing like a garden full of B-Flies! This is a fun, easy to draw tangle. While the shapes are simple, there’s plenty of room to add your own embellishments. I really enjoyed figuring out different things to do with each “bug”.
This is another one that I’m adding to my collection of random tangles for meditative tiles.
Inktober Tangles - Day 10 - Zenith by Zentangle
I’ve drawn Zenith many times, but never before as a monotangle. This time, I wanted to take the opportunity to draw it much larger than I normally do, and to make it “fancy”.
It was fun to figure out what I wanted to do with each area of exploration offered, but still stay with the basic idea of the original tangle.
Inktober Tangles - Day 9 - Lilife by Barbara Styer CZT
This tangle is new to me. It can be drawn as individual leaves, or, as I did here, in an Ogee grid. I chose the grid so that I could create a monotangle of sorts, and to leave lots areas for embelishment.
Some of the designs used for decoration are other tangles, some are parts of fragments, and some are just ideas from my imagination.
Inktober Tangles - Day 08 - Chomborós by Tania Ferriol Jover
Chomborós is a tangle that produces a beautiful, bordered, 6-pointed star. It is important to follow the Step-Out carefully for the best results.
For my version, above, I treated the outside border as if it was a folded ribbon, with a decorative side, using Tripoli for the design. On the plain side, I used vertical lines to show the wrong side of the ribbon.
Inktober Tangles - Day 07 - Rambles by Zentangle
Rambles is a lovely tangle. It can be used to frame a central motif, or it can be it’s own focal point.
That being said, for me, this simple tangle is a challenge. For some reason, my brain doesn’t want to turn my curved squiggle into a ribbon. I have to do all the steps after that initial line very, very carefully and slowly. Even then, I often make mistakes.
Inktober Tangles - Day 06 - Auravox by Stephanie Jennifer CZT
I am breaking from creating monotangles for Inktober with this tile. Instead of drawing a single tangle in vairous styles, this tile is what is called a “ZIA” or “Zentangle Inspired Art”.
There is a single AuraVox in the lower, right-hand corner. But that made me think of Forest Core, which lead me to the Mushroom house. Then I used two tangles, Poke leave and Locar to represent plants found on the shady forest floor.
Inktober Tangles - Day 05 - StarRite by Nina Dreher-Goddertz
In terms of Zentomology, StarRite is a bottanical, medallion type of tangle. It’s not difficult to draw, but there’s lots of room for embellishment.
You could fill a space with smaller, overlapping stars, or create a focal point, large star. It could be a star in space, or a starfish in an ocean scene.
This tangle will be added to my repertoire of tangles.
Inktober Tangles - Day 4 - Toodles by Zentangle
Toodles is a wonderful, leaf-shaped organic tangle. While it has a basic shape, you can play around with it and create a lot of variation without altering it very much.
This tile was fun to create, varying the size, the treatment of the center rib, adding a spot where the leaf folds over, or changing the look of the little Fescu bits of each leaf! I also shaded some of them differently than I normally would.
Inktober Tangles - Day 3 - Melvina by Nadine Roller CZT
This is a totally new tangle to me. I had never heard of it until I saw it on the Inktober Tangles list. It reminds me of Native American designs or quilt designs.
Here, I drew this tangle with no modifications. I added some simple, ombre color using pastel pencils.
I will play with this some more in the future to see what can be done combining it with other tangles, creating tangelations and adding texture to create more depth and complexity!
Inktober Tangles - Day 2 - Speedwayz by Carla Jooren CZT
Today’s tangle, Speedwayz, isn’t particularly difficult to draw, once you know where to start! Here, I’ve drawn two different versions. The square border is the basic version. In the arches is the Speedwayz Extra version. It is the shading that really makes this tangle stand out with dimension and depth.
Zentangle drawn on a standard, white Zentangle tile using a black, Micron pen. Shading done with graphite pencil. Highlights created with white chalk pencil.
Inktober Tangles - Day 1 - Festune by Zentangle
For my Inktober 2025 Project, I am following the tangle list from Stephanie Jennifer, CZT . If you want to know more about it, you can click on her name to go to her website.
Today’s tangle is Festune. It looks a bit like a fancy cushion that you might use to decorate your living room. Depending on how you draw them, they might look a bit like a paper umbrella! I love to draw them piling up as if they were thrown or dropped into a haphazard pile.
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Meow!?
I don’t think you can have a Spooktacular Celebration without the traditional, familiar, black cat.
Here, our favorite feline was apparently contemplating dinner when one of the vittles decided to speak up for itself!
Perhaps our furry fiend will contemplate a nice bowl of kibble instead!
Images were stamped and then watercolor was applied. Colored pencil and gel pen were added for color and emphasis.
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Jalousie? Teensy spiders just hanging around…
I’m so happy with how this came out! I wasn’t sure my idea would work. And it was still a bit mundane until I added the red dots to the spiders and the white dots next to their strings!
This was created using the tangle Jalousie, which was drawn first with black, Pigma Micron pens. Then watercolor was applied to establish the basic color range. Colored pencil, smoothed out with Copic Blender added depth to the colors. The red dots were added with a red, Posca pen. White dots were created with a white, Pentel, Juice Up gel pen creating a highlight along one side of the spiders’ strings.
Zonked!
Every so often, I get a wild idea to try something… and it ends up taking much longer, or being more complicated than I thought it would be. This layout is one of those.
I probably should have drawn the Zonked larger. But I wanted the scale to be small so that the mummy and bats wouldn’t get totally lost in the design.
However, I don’t think I’ll be drawing this tangle again for a while!
Whooo has the time?
Everyone who wants to make art, no matter your experience or education should make a little time each day to “just do it!” A tiny art journal is perfect because you can fill it quickly and the smaller size is less intimidating.
I wanted to create a layout with the feeling of the passage of time, and how we gain wisdom as we get older. So I chose these particular stamps with that in mind.
Today’s Inktober Zentangle prompt was TunnelVizion. I think this tangle makes a wonderful, creepy-cute critter that could be found on the Halloween forest floor!
Tangles drawn with purple, Sakura Pigma Micron pen. Watercolor was added to the background and each of the tangle elements. Colored pencil was used to give more dimension to the individual parts and a bit added to the background to intensify the green.
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On the first day of Spooktacular2019, I incorporated the Inktober Zentangle prompt, which was Printemps in my tiny art journal layout. Here, I used them to make the brightly colored foliage in the trees.
The tree trunks were stamped on the page, then the tangles were added. Watercolors were applied and the foreground was stamped. Additional watercolor was added to the background and foreground. Finally some colored pencil was used for shading, color and texture.