Rotation.
It‘s interesting the way the design feels like everything is wrapped around the Bunzo as if it‘s surrounded by a mini cyclone of patterns.
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Bristol Vellum using a black Micron pen.
Tangles: Ambler Bunzo Ennies Florz Indy-Rella Jetties Knase Purk
Tomorrow is St. Patrick‘s Day. So, even though it‘s a day early, I‘m using this tile, which looks like a basket of shamrocks!
Zentangle drawn on Official Zentangle tile using a black, Micron pen.
Tangles: Fescu Keeko Munchin Sh-Rock Twing W-2
Schway in Schway.
In this tangle, the string is Schway and the tangle is also used as a pattern in the tile. My goal here was to create a tile in which the tangles were basically symmetrical.
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Bristol Vellum using a black Micron pen.
Tangles: Schway Eye-Wa Chard Cootie
Spiders.
Everytime I see this, I think there is a spider lurking about, waiting for her eggs to hatch.
Zentangle drawn on Official Zentangle tile using a black, Micron pen.
Tangles: Aah Afterglow Black Box Black-eyed Peas Centipede Hibred Huggins Munchin Poke-Root
Relaxation.
When I hold out this tile and squint at it, I get the feeling of a daybed, or the corner of a couch in an atrium. It feels like I could snuggle against the pillows with a good book or a sketch pad!
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen.
Tangles: Chillon coral Seeds Evoke Façade Onamato Orlique Prestwood Scena Vega
Ca-Ray-Zee!
Ok, this is old, and I don‘t remember what I was trying here, other than to try tangling on a colored background with a different colored pen. This tile has no shading, and frankly, I don‘t think adding it would help at all. It looks like the string had lots of curves, but who knows how it all began!
Zentangle drawn on colored card stock using a sepia Micron pen.
Meandering.
Several of the tangles in this tile decided to meander around and about on thier own, creating some interesting interactions!
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Bristol Vellum using a black Micron pen.
Tangles: Berries & Leaves Bumper Crazy Huggins Jay Six Pais
Speed.
Every so often, I like to challenge myself when I tangle. For this tile, I challenged myself to speed up from my regular slow-and-deliberate style. This mostly worked well, except for coloring the Knightsbridge. That was just slow so I wouldn‘t go outside the lines.
I also experimented with adding a bit of white highlights. I‘m not sure how I feel about them yet.
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Zig Millennium pen.
Drive by.
I think the Wheelz are out for a spin in the countryside. They‘ve driven by apartments, farms, a mountain and a river!
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen.
Tangles: Apollonian Waves Bales Emingle Flutter Footprints Jalousie Kitl Wheelz
Bamboo!
This tile includes the first tangle I designed: Bamboo. While it‘s not an “official” tangle, it‘s still one of my favorites. It works as a filler or a border. You could even use it as a tangelation with Hollibaugh!
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Bristol Vellum using a black Micron pen.
Tangles: Bamboo Chartz Chillon Echoism Flutter Pie Hollibaugh Nebel Spinners Vega
Tentacles.
What interesting creature is lurking behind the bushes in the garden?
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen.
Tangles: Bubble Love Fescu Flora Lollywimple Plum Leaf
Zen Gem: Rutilated Quartz.
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen. Coloring done with mixed brand gel pens and colored pencils. Shading done with graphite pencil.
Tangles: Chicken Wire
Winter is coming…
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen. Coloring done with Zig Real Brush, Crayola and Distress markers. Sakura Soufflé pen, Slicci metallic pen, Atyou Spica pens and glitter glue used for accents.
Tangles: Aah Flake
Steam time.
I decided to go in a bit of a steampunk direction with this monotangle. I like copper and green together and I‘ve been wanting to do more Zen Gems, so this tile made my artistic soul very happy.
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen. Coloring done with mixed brand colored pencils, Crayon and Distress markers. Shading done with graphite pencil.
Tangles: Waybop
How do you grow?
I feel like my tangling shovel dug a slice from the garden. Here, I can see the plants reaching for the sun, the soil, seeds and roots!
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen.
Tangles: Fescu Keeko Quabog Quipple Sedgling Umble
Pop!
Whenever I see Widgets, the tangle in the center here, I‘m reminded of bubbles popping!
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Bristol Vellum using a black Micron pen.
Tangles: Diva Dance Echoism Quare Screen Swag W-2 Widgets Worms
Love is in the garden.
Look at the giant heart-shaped flower that appeared in the garden! The love-bugs are so excited!
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen. Coloring was done with Tombow, Zig, Crayola and Distress markers. Accents were done with Distress and Stablo markers.
Tangles:Flee, Mooka, Pais
The process.
One of the things about tangling is that it is a meditative process. I focus on each line I draw, and often don‘t have a clear picture of where the over-all design is going. This is particularly true when I select tangles at random, as I did here.
Sometimes the over-all design works, and sometimes it doesn‘t. But there are days when the process is what is most important.
Neuron was recently featured as the challenge tangle on a couple of Facebook groups. I didn‘t do this right away, because I wanted to think about how to use the tangle as a string, as I did here. I also wanted to experiment with a few red accents, and I thought the triangles that appear in this design were perfect. I felt the center needed something contrasting, so I chose Nzeppel. Finally, I specifically chose the tangles to go into the other filled spaces so that there were a lot of close line work. It‘s kind of unusual for me to select specific tangles and here, I feel like everything worked very well.
Busy.
This tile is from a time when I used complicated strings and lots of tangles. But I think there are some interesting things here, that I‘ve further developed. For example, allowing one tangle to flow behind another. I also followed the string from the Cubine into the Striping.
Now days, those concepts are used often when Zentangling, and are specifically taught in classes, tutorials and books!
Zentangle drawn on Official Zentangle tile using a black, Micron pen.