Today’s tile for Zentangle’s “Bijou Be Well 2025” project features the tangle Keeko.
I’ve also added Mooka, instead of the Pokeleaf shown in the video. I did this because today was 8th grade graduation for my teen! So I did a little “family portrait” to commerate the event.
The Bijouism for the day is “Be brave, be true”.
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 graphite and colored pencil. Highlights done with white colored pencil.
Today’s tile for Zentangle’s “Bijou Be Well 2025” project features the tangle Cubine.
The Bijouism for the day is “Patience”.
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 graphite and colored pencil. Highlights done with white colored pencil.
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Tangles: Cubine
Today’s tile for Zentangle’s “Bijou Be Well 2025” project features the tangle Nipa.
The Bijouism for the day is “Silence”.
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 graphite and colored pencil. Highlights done with Zentangle white chalk pencil and white colored pencil.
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Tangles: Nipa
Today’s tile for Zentangle’s “Bijou Be Well 2025” project features the tangle Ix.
The Bijouism for the day is “Take Another Look”.
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 graphite pencil. Highlights done with Zentangle white chalk pencil and white colored pencil.
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Tangles: Ix
Today’s tile for Zentangle’s “Bijou Be Well 2025” project features the tangle Drupe.
The Bijouism for the day is “I Can Decide”.
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 and graphite pencil. Highlights done with Zentangle white chalk pencil.
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Tangles: Drupe
Today’s tile for Zentangle’s “Bijou Be Well 2025” project features the tangle Huggins.
The Bijouism for the day is “It’s the journey”.
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 and graphite pencil. Highlights done with Zentangle white chalk pencil.
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Tangles: Huggins
Today’s tile for Zentangle’s “Bijou Be Well 2025” project features the tangle Diva Dance.
The Bijouism for the day is “Respect”.
The video for this tangle is here .
Zentangle drawn on pink printed parchment card stock using a black, Micron pen. Coloring, shading, and highlights done with colored pencil.
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Tangles: Diva Dance
Today’s tile for Zentangle’s “Bijou Be Well 2025” project features the tangle Pepper.
The Bijouism for the day is “Share”.
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.
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Tangles: Pepper
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.
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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.
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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.
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month. This year, the theme, as designated by Mental Health America is “Turn Awareness Into Action.” This encompasses taking action for yourself and taking action for all.
Zentangle is a tool for taking action for yourself AND for taking action for others. For myself, it helps me to deal with the stresses in my life. I also teach others, giving them new tools to deal with things in their lives.
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.
I don’t often work on Zendala tiles. For some reason, they seem kind of intimidating to me. I do have many blank tiles in my stash that are just sitting there, being ignored.
I am also interested in trying my hand at more botanical tangles and trying things that I haven’t done before.
This tile is a result of all of this! As I was doing it, at times I thought it wasn’t going to work, and liking various parts, and thinking I would just put it away and not finish it.
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.
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Tangles: Crazy Nzepple
I used another tile from my kit that already had a string drawn on it. This time, it divided the tile into rectangular-ish sections.
Instead of filling in the sections themselves, I decided to use the dividing lines and draw in a Hollibaugh fashion.
I was wondering what it would look like if I used random ribbon-style tangles instead of the more traditional empty ribbons. I think the results are interesting and I will probably try something like this again in the future!
I mentioned previously that I had a very old Zentangle kit. I also have a newer one that has the lighter green color on the outside. I pulled it out because I wanted to see what was in it and I found a standard Zentangle tile that already had a string drawn on it! Actually there are a few with strings already drawn on them.
I chose this one to work on. The string was fairly complex, so I thought it might be fun. The string had several small loops around the outside edge, so I started drawing orbs and basically filled them in with Tipple.