ZIA and a Zentangle

 This is a "regulation" 3.5" Zentangle tile.  It is is my attempt to continue to extrapolate on the Auraknot tangle trying different ways to use it.  I have to admit, it is totally fun to play around with this tangle!  

This on the other hand is a ZIA (Zentangle Inspired Art).  A card-sized piece on Strathmore card stock again...this is a creative take off of some "fun houses" that Margaret Bremmer showed on her blog recently.  Must give her credit for the idea.  Her's a more "funky" and artistic but I have to start somewhere.  It would make a fun "welcome to your new home" card!  Because it takes longer to design the "strings" that will hold the patterns in place...a piece like this takes me twice as long to construct than a Zentangle®  

This has been a fun, relaxing distraction between packing jobs here at the cabin this week.  Greg is busy changing oil in the car today for the 1500+ mile trip back south (in just 10 days).  And the weather is cooperating for a change by getting up into the 50s and sunny. I got some indoor things packed and done.  I am teaching one more Zentangle class on Wed and and then the art studio will start to pack up too.  Not so much posting after that for a few weeks.