Zentangle Day 5

Unintentionally, looks kinda like a brain!

Zentangle Day 4

I finally got around to purchasing some Micron pens for my Zentangles. Definitely a sharper lines. Also picked up some art pencils to shade with.  There's definitely a difference in the way they feel when I'm creating them, if not a change in the images themselves.

no Zentangle Tuesday

It was "post-nothing" Tuesday, yesterday.  Alright, so I never got around to doing the day's Zentangle yesterday.  Details: every day as a list of new things to practice with before you sit down to do that day's Zentangle.  I got started on a couple (typically there are three) of the new design techinques/ideas, but never got around to the last one and by the time I could have gotten to it, I was too exhausted to make the effort.  I've given up on forcing myself to do it every day, as that seems to defeat the zen purpose of the zentangle if I'm stressed out trying to do it.

Anyhoo, I'm back in my sketchpad today working and getting more familiar with the pattern designs.  I'll get to my Zentangle at some point today and post it when it's done.

Meanwhile, I found this really cool site with Zentangle patterns.

Zentangle day 3

A few new techniques...

Zentangle Day 2

Yeah, day 2.  Zentangle.  learning a few more techniques. Not sure what else to say about this. Peeking ahead at future days in the book, each day's techniques and ideas build on the previous as well as adding new "tangles" to learn and fine-tune (and perfect).

Zentangle Day 1

I picked up Becka Krahula's Zentangle book yesterday after many weeks (month?) of consideration.

This is my first attempt at a Zentangle, done in my notebook as I don't (yet) have any official Zentangle tiles.

For the uninformed, the writing at the top is an abbreviation of the eleven step Zentable process as outlined in the book.

Jaded

Like all great attempts (all right, all attempts), this effort to encourage regular postings has also failed. Looking at this blog for the first time in many moons, I discovered that six months had passed. How sad. Pitiful and sad. What remains to be seen is if I find the time, dedication, and willingness to return to it.