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Some Zentangle Inspired little houses. Using familiar tangling concepts like aura and repetition, this was a cool lesson. It was taught by Eni Oken.

I have been playing with Judith Adriaanse’s (a CZT from the Netherlands) Dutch Button technique.

I am playing along with the Bijou 21 Day Challenge that Zentangle is hosting. Here’s up to and including Day 5. I’ll post more as time progresses, but they are encouraging us to walk away from the screens a bit. It’s good for me to heed that suggestion.

First image is just cropped in a bit. I’m working on an 11 inch tile.

This is the pattern Cross Flower, by CZT Sunali Shah.

I’ve been inspired by the beautiful ballpoint pen and ink drawings showing up here. I found a Ballpoint Pen art book at the public library, and here’s the first lesson. The book is simply titled, “The Art of Ballpoint”.

Bic and Zebra Ballpoint, toned watercolor paper, white acrylic ink

Adapted from a Tangle Lab session taught by CZT Anica Gabrovec, in Croatia. I used my favorite metallics, flip-flop colors by Finetec. Depending on how the light catches it, they’re different colors.

This Monotangle tile is the pattern OleasLigero by German CZT Ariane Bauer. It really stretches the limit of what makes a Zentangle pattern a pattern, in that it’s almost like a Metapattern. (A pattern that’s built of other patterns, namely Fescu, Mooka, and Pokeleaf). Anyway, it gave me countless opportunities for some really fun shading. I hope everyone has a relaxing weekend.

I love tangling when I’m not surrounded by all my supplies. I like the absence of choice. A pen or two, a few pencils, some paper. I did this one in the laundromat this afternoon. Added finishing touches at home, but kept up with the limited supplies.

I took a lesson (actually a series of lessons) by Eni Oken. The goal was taking real life elements and interpreting them as Tangle patterns, regular patterns, and motifs. These are from a 14th century Italian Palazzo, and the bedroom and foyer of a nobleman’s living quarters.

I follow the Tangled Yogi on YouTube. Romi’s proposals are always so lovely, with her focus on both design and coloring. This is a recent lesson of hers.

I found this very cool lesson on drawing Tangled Wings, by CZT Jessica Davies. I kind of went my own direction, and only later realized her suggestion is to do it in a more mirrored manner. There’s always next time. 6” x 8” piece of printmaking paper.

In preparing our class, the CZT I study with makes a bunch of test tiles. Although we focused on something else, she showed us this month’s tests, and everyone loved it, so we got a bonus lesson focusing on this style of mandala.