Zentangled out....

Well, here are the last 3 Zentangles for a little while. I am heading into a wc project right now so I want to post these before I tuck them on the shelf.

I warned you these were addictive, didn't I?

Hahaha.

They are all on white paper but I see that my lighting was different when I took photos of them.

All 3.5" square Canson cold press WC paper using .01-.03 permanent pens.

The first two were done with a "string" as a perimeter..that is a light pencil line drawn randomly around the edge of the cards. Then filled in rather randomly as I chose different patterns to practice. For those of you who are not "tanglers"...there is a whole set of "vocabulary" that is used...I am new to it too. Each of the patterns has a funky name so that people who want to know how to do one can go to tangle.com and find it and see the directions on how to do it. Some of the designs are copyright but openly shared. I guess if I invent one and post it I can claim it. Not that this interests me.

This last one, just for variety I actually drew lightly the letters to a word and then tangled the letters to see how that might work.

My friend, Kendra, says these would make dynamic coasters! If they were maybe glued to cork backing and then coated heavy with a clear protective covering. Interesting idea!!! Pretty neat gift for someone!

I guess I should probably sign these somehow. Seems like some folks just design in their initials somewhere. I'll have to think about this. Remember you can go to zentangle.com to read about how these got started and to find out about the materials, books, and how these are used. I am looking for a Zentangle instructor who might come and do a workshop for my Leesburg FL Fine Arts group this winter. There is a list of instructors online. So I'll see what I can find.

Weather here in northern WI has dropped 20 degrees today after a storm went through last night. The midwest (south of us) has been like 104 for days on days and is suffering a drought. We are about 3-4" ahead in rain up here near Lake Superior. So green here. I sure hope they get some rain in the midwest or the crops are going to be ruined! I hear that the cows have stopped giving milk!!!