Today's Tangle - Mooka Window Grilles

This is my adaptation of the "Window Grilles" pattern by Mei Hua Teng. You'll find her step-out HERE at TanglePatterns. Read more about how I incorporated "Mooka" into the design HERE in a previous post.

Today's Tangle - Gotcha

"Gotcha" is by Karin Godyns and you can get the step-out HERE at TanglePatterns. Bunte Galerie has a video HERE. I previously blogged about this pattern HERE.

Today's Tangle - Eau

"Eau" is by Christina Carrol CZT and you'll find her step-out HERE at TanglePatterns. I drew this pattern and blogged about it once before HERE.

The Twelve Days of Zentangle® - Day 12

Merry Christmas everyone!

The Day 12 video is presented by Maria. I didn't have much luck drawing the wavy "capes" that Maria added to her Mookas so I added something a little different to mine. I drew the tile below first but wasn't happy with the white chalk background so I drew the tile above and left that off.

You can read about Zentangle Project Pack 12 HERE on the Zentangle blog. You can buy the project pack HERE. Watch the Day 12 video HERE.

The Twelve Days of Zentangle® - Day 10

The Day 10 video is presented by Maria. I drew this tile with the point at the bottom but I've decided that I like it better this way up. I don't have the project pack so I am making do with supplies that I have on hand.

Check out THIS YouTube video by Shie Naritomi where she draws a fun variation of the Day 10 tile.

You can read about Zentangle Project Pack 12 HERE on the Zentangle blog. You can buy the project pack HERE. Watch the Day 10 video HERE.

The Twelve Days of Zentangle® - Day 9

The Day 9 video is presented by Martha and Molly. I don't have the project pack so I am making do with supplies that I have on hand.

You can read about Zentangle Project Pack 12 HERE on the Zentangle blog. You can buy the project pack HERE. Watch the Day 9 video HERE.

The Twelve Days of Zentangle® - Day 8

The Day 8 video is presented by Maria and features "Moon Pie" and "DooDah" along with a few other tangles. I don't have the project pack so I am making do with supplies that I have on hand. One thing that I do have now is a Van Dyke Brown chalk pencil like the one in the project pack.

You can read about Zentangle Project Pack 12 HERE on the Zentangle blog. You can buy the project pack HERE. Watch the Day 8 video HERE.

The Twelve Days of Zentangle® - Day 7

The Day 7 video features "Paradox" and "Flux" and is presented by Rick. I used a standard size square tile for today's drawing. I don't have the project pack so I am making do with supplies that I have on hand.

You can read about Zentangle Project Pack 12 HERE on the Zentangle blog. You can buy the project pack HERE. Watch the Day 7 video HERE.

The Twelve Days of Zentangle® - Day 6

The Day 6 video features "Scena" and is presented by Martha and Molly. I've gotten a little behind in my drawings and I'm also waiting to draw the projects for days 7 and 8 until I receive some pastel chalk pencils, and other drawing supplies, that I ordered from Blick. They're scheduled for delivery sometime today. One of the pencils is the same color that comes in the project pack.

Instead of connecting four Bijou tiles, I used a standard size tile for today's drawing. I also decided not to fill the center entirely with gold since I used a metallic gold gel pen instead of paint.

I don't have the project pack so I am making do with supplies that I have on hand. I cut my tile out of card stock and used a metallic gold Gelly Roll pen instead of the paint that comes in the kit. Instead of using a pastel pencil, I'm using a regular terracotta colored pencil and blend it with odorless mineral spirits.

You can read about Zentangle Project Pack 12 HERE on the Zentangle blog. You can buy the project pack HERE. Watch the Day 6 video HERE.

The Twelve Days of Zentangle® - Day 5

Day 5's video is presented by Maria.

I don't have the project pack so I am making do with supplies that I have on hand. I cut my tile out of card stock and used a metallic gold Gelly Roll pen instead of the paint that comes in the kit. Instead of using a pastel pencil, I'm using a regular terracotta colored pencil and blend it with odorless mineral spirits.

You can read about Zentangle Project Pack 12 HERE on the Zentangle blog. You can buy the project pack HERE. Watch the Day 5 video HERE.

The Twelve Days of Zentangle® - Day 4

Day 4's video is presented by Julie and she draws the tangle "Sand Swirl" on a triangular 3Z tile. My gold Gelly Roll pen was starting to run out of ink so I ended up "antiquing" it by drawing crosshatch lines with it in three directions to fill the area. I do have some spare gold pens so I will be able to complete the project series.

I don't have the project pack so I am making do with supplies that I have on hand. I cut my tile out of card stock and used a metallic gold Gelly Roll pen instead of the paint that comes in the kit. Instead of using a pastel pencil, I'm using a regular terracotta colored pencil and blend it with odorless mineral spirits.

You can read about Zentangle Project Pack 12 HERE on the Zentangle blog. You can buy the project pack HERE. Watch the Day 4 video HERE.

The Twelve Days of Zentangle® - Day 3

The Day 3 video is presented by Rick and he draws a very cool variation of the tangle Well.

I don't have the project pack so I am making do with supplies that I have on hand. I cut my tile out of card stock and used a metallic gold Gelly Roll pen instead of the paint that comes in the kit. Instead of using a pastel pencil, I'm using a regular terracotta colored pencil and I blend it with odorless mineral spirits.

You can read about Zentangle Project Pack 12 HERE on the Zentangle blog. You can buy the project pack HERE. Watch the Day 3 video HERE.

The Twelve Days of Zentangle® - Day 2

Today's tile features Huggins, Mooka and DooDah. Has anyone else noticed how dark the brown pen ink looks in their videos? Mine looks much lighter, even if I go back over my lines. In real life, it would be impossible to mistake the brown for black like it appears in the videos. Perhaps the official Zentangle tiles absorb more of the ink and make it look darker than on my card stock tile.

I don't have the project pack so I am making do with supplies that I have on hand. I cut my tile out of card stock and used a metallic gold Gelly Roll pen instead of the paint that comes in the kit. Instead of using a pastel pencil, I'm using a regular terracotta colored pencil and blend it with odorless mineral spirits.

You can read about Zentangle Project Pack 12  HERE on the Zentangle blog. You can buy the project pack HERE. Watch the Day 2 video, featuring Martha and Molly, HERE.

The Twelve Days of Zentangle® - Day 1

Zentangle's Project Pack 12 started on Friday and you can read the details about it HERE on the Zentangle blog. You can buy the project pack HERE. There are two videos for the first day: HERE (introduction) and HERE.

I don't have the project pack so I made do with supplies that I have on hand. I cut my tile out of card stock and used a metallic gold Gelly Roll pen instead of the gold paint that comes in the kit. Instead of using a pastel pencil, I used a regular terracotta colored pencil and blended it with odorless mineral spirits.

Classic Zentangle® - A Mosaic

I drew this mosaic for a prompt in the Today's Tangles: Keeping it Classic Facebook group. The prompt was to create a mosaic with four tiles. Below you can see them individually as well as the string that I started with.

These are the tangles that I used:

Diva Dance - I blogged about Diva Dance HERE.

DooDah - I blogged about DooDah HERE.

Echoism - I blogged about Echoism HERE.

Flux - I blogged about Flux HERE.

Knightsbridge - I blogged about Knightsbridge HERE.

Meer - I blogged about Meer HERE.

Mooka - I blogged about Mooka HERE.

Printemps - I blogged about Printemps HERE.

Purk - I blogged about Purk HERE.

Ravel - I blogged about Ravel HERE.

Tipple - I blogged about Tipple HERE.

Toodles - I blogged about Toodles HERE.

Vega - I blogged about Vega HERE.

MOSAIC #7

For as long as I've been a member of the Today's Tangles: Keeping it Classic Facebook group, I've been compiling mosaics of all of the tiles that I have drawn for the weekly prompts. I just completed my seventh mosaic which you can see below:

Today's Tangle - Capullo

"Capullo" is by Gloria Barocio CZT and you'll find her step-out HERE at TanglePatterns.

THE TWELVE DAYS OF ZENTANGLE

Zentangle Project Pack #12 begins today. You can buy the project pack HERE and watch each day's video on the Zentangle YouTube channel HERE.

Today's Tangle - Oasis

"Oasis" is by Tomàs Padrós and his step-out is posted HERE on Instagram.

Today's Tangle - Fountain

"Fountain" is by Tricia Long and her pattern is posted HERE at Pattern-Collections. Ellen Wolters has a video HERE.

UPDATE: The Pattern-Collections website has shut down. Click HERE to view this pattern.

Today's Tangle - VLine

"VLine" is by YuRu Chen and her pattern is HERE at Pattern-Collections.com. You'll also find several videos about this pattern there.

UPDATE: The Pattern-Collections website has shut down. Click HERE to view this pattern.

Today's Tangle - Carry Flower

 

"Carry Flower" is by Agneta Landegren and you'll find the pattern HERE at Pattern-Collections. I previously blogged about this pattern HERE and I tweaked the design this time.

UPDATE: The Pattern-Collections website has shut down. Click HERE to view this pattern.

Today's Tangle - Eva Wu Video 1345

This is an adaptation Eva Wu's design that I blogged about the other day. You can watch her "Video 1345" HERE on YouTube.

Today's Tangle - Eva Wu Video 1345

I drew this by following a video tutorial by Eva Wu. You can watch her "Video 1345" HERE on YouTube.

Today's Tangle - Harfe

Today's tile has a Christmas color scheme with red, green and metallic gold. You can read more about "Harfe" in THIS previous post.

Today's Tangle - Creevagh

"Creevagh" is by Neil Burley and you can find his step-out HERE on his blog. I've blogged about this pattern before HERE but today's tile looks very different because of the way that I embellished it.

Official Zentangle® Pattern - Dewd

The way that I shaded the orbs was inspired by a Zen Linea tile that I saw somewhere online. Read more about "Dewd" in THIS post.

Today's Tangle - Crusade

"Crusade" is by Wayne Harlow CZT and you'll find his step-out HERE at TanglePatterns. Mimi has a video HERE and I previously blogged about a wonky version HERE.

Today's Tangle - CreZendo

"CreZendo" is by Pam Hartz Miller CZT and her pattern is posted HERE at TanglePatterns.

Official Zentangle® Pattern - Ibex

"Ibex" doesn't have an officially published step-out but I did find one HERE on Pinterest. I'm pretty sure that the step-out seen there was drawn by Maria Thomas. Melinda Barlow CZT has two videos about "Ibex" HERE and HERE but the first one isn't drawn as shown in the step-out.

Today's Tangle - Fleavy

"Fleavy" is by Hanny Nura CZT and the step-out is HERE on her blog. I found two videos for this pattern, HERE and HERE. I blogged once before about this tangle HERE. What looks like yellow is actually metallic gold gel pen.

Today's Tangle - CreZendo

"CreZendo" is by Pam Hartz Miller CZT and her pattern is posted HERE at TanglePatterns.

Today's Tangle - Pekinese

This fun pattern called "Pekinese" is by Suzanne Davis and you will find her step-out HERE on flickr.

Today's Tangle - Verve

"Verve" is by JJ LaBarbera and her step-out is HERE on her Tinker Tangles blog.

Today's Tangle - Verve

"Verve" is by JJ LaBarbera and her step-out is HERE on her Tinker Tangles blog. I also found a video HERE.

Today's Tangle - Lido

"Lido" is by Dawn Collins and her pattern is posted HERE at Pattern-Collections. She also has a video tutorial there.

UPDATE: The Pattern-Collections website has shut down. Click HERE to view this pattern.

Today's Tangle - Relly-Telly-One

"Relly-Telly-One" is by Karin Klang-Meier and the pattern can be found HERE at Pattern-Collections.

UPDATE: The Pattern-Collections website has shut down. Click HERE to view this pattern.

Today's Tangle - Relly-Telly-One

"Relly-Telly-One" is by Karin Klang-Meier and the pattern can be found HERE at Pattern-Collections.

UPDATE: The Pattern-Collections website has shut down. Click HERE to view this pattern.

Today's Tangle - Yuu

"Yuu" is by Damy Teng and the pattern is posted HERE on her blog. I blogged about this pattern before but my first tile looked very different than today's. You can see it HERE.

Classic Zentangle® - Tripoli

I drew this tile for a prompt in the Today's Tangles: Keeping it Classic Facebook group. "Tripoli" is one of the official Zentangle patterns and the step-out is posted HERE in the Zentangle newsletter.