I used to be really nervous about trying anything based on an ogee grid, such as the African Artist tangle. I think I am finally over it. I have been practicingng drawing Narfello over and over and over, to the point where I am comfortable with it. So when African Artist came up, I was surprised at how easy it now feels! Zentangle drawn on a standard, white Zentangle tile using a black, Micron pen. Shading done with graphite pencil. Highlights done with white chalk pencil.
The random string that came up for day five of my “back to basics” journey is, well, complicated! I decided to treat this like a patchwork quilt. I figured it would give me the opportunity to practice many differeent tangles, all chosen at random. Perhaps too many! This tile has 16 different tangles, two of which are new to me: Moon Pie and Floo-ish. I really love that last one! Choosing all the tangles before I started drawing allowed me to arrange the locations for each so that the composition had a balance that I liked.