Today’s tile for Zentangle’s “Bijou Be Well 2025” project features the tangle Tortuca. The Bijouism for the day is “Love Your Work”. The video for this tangle is here . Zentangle drawn on pink printed parchment card stock using a black, Micron pen. Coloring done with colored pencil. Shading done with colored pencil. Highlights done with Zentangle white chalk pencil. #zentangle #tangle #BeWell2025 #MentalHealthAmerica #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #4Rebecca Tangles: Tortuca
Today’s tile for Zentangle’s “Bijou Be Well 2025” project features the tangle Mysteria. The Bijouism for the day is “Pause”. The video for this tangle is here . Zentangle drawn on pink printed parchment card stock using a black, Micron pen. Coloring done with colored pencil. Shading done with black colored pencil. Highlights done with Zentangle white chalk pencil. #zentangle #tangle #BeWell2025 #MentalHealthAmerica #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #4Rebecca Tangles: Mysteria
Today’s tile for Zentangle’s “Bijou Be Well 2025” project features the tangle Muchin. The Bijouism for the day is “Elegance of Limits”. The video for this tangle is here . Happy Mother’s Day! Zentangle drawn on pink printed parchment card stock using a black, Micron pen. Coloring done with colored pencil. Shading done with blackwing pencil and colored pencil. Highlights done with Zentangle white chalk pencil. #zentangle #tangle #BeWell2025 #MentalHealthAmerica #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #4Rebecca
Variation is what makes life interesting. Variation on a theme makes tangling interesting! The four tiles making up the outside square are all tangled with a variation of Crescent Moon. It was very relaxing to create each one, adding it to the mosaic as I went along. The center tile tangle is called Ixorus. I chose it because it also has the “moon” shapes, but is omnidirectional. There is no shading at all on these. I wanted to keep the overall design very graphic.
The Zentangle method can produce everything from romantic, flowing botanical designs to bold graphic statements…and everything between. My general, meditative style often leans towards strong graphics. I also tend to be a bit timid with the shading, although it is bolder than you see here. Scanning and reducing the size seems to reduce the overall range. The string for this tile came from a bunch that I have collected and numbered over the years. I often just use a random number generator to choose one and then fill it with random tangles. I never ceases to surprise me what I end up with.
Time for a bit of fun… The kid got her braces removed on Tuesday. I posted a spread in a tiny art journal a little over a year ago. The spread was actually created in 2023. Having braces for 2 years isn’t fun. But the payoff is really worth it! Since I’ve been tangling evey day, I decided to create an illustration tile, using tangles to create a picture that is less abstract than normal. I wanted to capture the feeling of going to school and showing off her new smile to all of her friends and classmates.
Another monotangle day. This one is more complex than yesterday’s tile. I was sorting through my old Micron pens to see what worked, and what didn’t. I found a blue, 01 pen and decided I would use that for today’s tangling. I didn’t want to shade the tile using a regular lead pencil, so I chose a darker blue colored pencil. I really like the effect it created! I also added highlights to the top layer of petals, just to make them pop out even more.
Crazy Nzepple is another tangle that I love to draw. There is just something very soothing about smooshing orbs into a defined shape! Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using brown and sepia Micron pens. Shading done with pen stippling. I chose not to add any pencil shading to this tile because I love the simplicity and graphic quality of the basic drawing. #zentangle #monotangle #tile #drawing #tangle Tangles: Crazy Nzepple