The Zentangle 12 Days of Christmas projects are back. It looks like it's going to be a fun group of projects! This is Day 3. I've done it following the directions on the video but then added colored pencils and some gold gel pen. I was excited to try out the technique they called Zenbossing. To do it utilized a stylus tool that I already had in my tool box.  The gold pen doesn't show up very well in photos but I found if I went close up and tilted the tile, you could see the glint from the gold. I use the Hybrid Dual Metallic pen. It's made by Pentel and pictured below ..read more

  Long time no see! You may have wondered why I haven't posted for so long. Well, I actually have a good excuse. Mid January I was out at night walking my foster puppy and fell on some black ice in my driveway. As I laid there I looked at my wrist I saw my wrist bending in a way it doesn't normally go. Somehow adrenaline kicked in and I was able to hold my arm close to my chest and get back up. I called in some favors from neighbors who kindly got me to the ER and took care of my puppy. In the picture you can see me in treatment as they pulled my broken bone back into position. My daugh ..read more

Heidi Kay has come up with a new tangle called Flutch and it's especially fun for the holidays. These are a few of the tiles with variations that I've created.  ..read more

  Fan Fragments - this design came from a class originally taught by Deb Bowyer. It was then taught virtually by Leslie Goldberg - a member of the Midwest Tanglers United. Our group - affectionately known as MTU is a group of zentangle fans based in the Illinois area. We have a Facebook presence if you are interested in learning more ..read more

The empty heart string is one I've used a number of times in the past. It's one I often use when I want to tuck a tile into a condolence card for a friend. I use it when I want to acknowledge that while a loved one may be gone, they leave all the memories with their family and friends. The first tile here is one I did for Bunny Wright. She is a CZT that we recently lost. She contributed many tangle patterns to our community so all the tangle patterns shown here are done from her step outs. The string itself is fairly straightforward. Draw a border with your pencil. Draw a simple heart wi ..read more

Ecoline brush markers are a a fairly recent purchase for me. The colors are bright and the markers are juicy. Definitely fun to play with. If you liked my previous post with the stained glass orbs, these are the markers I used for some of them. (I also used my Tombow markers.) In the picture you will see a circular color chart. I did that when I first got them and added water to see what they would look like when thinned with water. But are they lightfast? If you frame a piece and/or hang it up on your wall, what will happen? So I decided to find out. I took a strip of my good drawing paper ..read more

I took a Zoom class with Inge Frasch in Germany yesterday. Stained glass orbs was such fun! Thanks Inge! Since then I've done 4 more based on the same technique. This was a fun way to use all my colored markers (Tombows) and explore the reticula and fragments from the book from Zentangle. Always good to try something new ..read more

We have been lucky that so many zentangle artists have been sharing classes during these trying times. I was thankful to spend time with Sonya Yencer on Facebook this morning. She walked us through Floorz and Arukas. These are two tangles I enjoy but don't used all that frequently. Of course, since I'm already familiar with these tangles, I wasn't paying close attention to what Sonya was saying and I jumped ahead. So my tile went off in its own way. I'm happy with what resulted though. It's got quite a few tangleations in it.  ..read more

I continue to do a lot of tangling these days. It helps keep me calm. This is a brand new tangle. It's challenging for sure but I love the results! It's called 'Amazing Spider" by Hennie  Brouwer. Thanks Hennie! I added a border of Flux. The border helps to hide the edges where the pattern gets confusing ..read more

I can't sew masks and I can't man the volunteer lines at the food banks, but I can paint and I can tangle. So in conjunction with a local real estate agent, I'm painting rocks that are being placed all over my village. They all have some sort of inspirational word or phrase that's usually on the other side of the rock. We let our neighbors know they were out there on our local Facebook page. They have responded that they are finding them during their walks around the neighborhood during the quarantine. Some are taken home as treasures.  Many of them are finding new homes somewhere e ..read more