Zentangle Saturday #7

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Zentangle Saturday #6

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Zentangle Saturday #5

I should have spent more time on this Zentangle.  I am not too fond of the paperweights design on the bottom left but I like the soundbites and wishbones on the bottom right!  The Flurry at the top required a lot of concentration.  Other designs above include snake, queen's crown and algae.

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Zentangle Saturday #3 and #4

 The Zentangle above includes accordion, ivy, portholes, nipa, printemps and ocean spray designs.

The designs around the initial are beelight, snood, eddy, pinball, wavy border and black eyed peas.  If you want to know more about Zentangle, which is a form of mindful meditation, then you can find information on the official site here.

Zentangle Saturday #2

For this Zentangle I added some shading with a 5B pencil.  Some of the tangles included here are Kings Crown, Cubine, Chillon, Hollibaugh and Swirls.

If you want more information about Zentangle a good place to start is zentangle.com.  

Zentangle Saturday

Each Saturday I will be posting up a picture of a Zentangle that I have been working on that day/week.  There. I have said it now so I am committed!  Truth be told, I wasn't going to post this picture as I am not very happy with how it turned out but I deduced that I will get better as the weeks progress.  I have been using designs from Suzanne McNeill's Zentangle workbooks and the patterns above have names such as Topos, Boodle, Floats and Lea!

I have ordered some 'proper' smooth paper tiles to draw onto and a set of Pigma MICRON Sakura pens.  Today I used an artists trading card to draw on and the pen I was using kept catching and dragging on the paper.  I am sure that with the correct tools for the job I will have a much more satisfying outcome.

Have you tried Zentangle yet?  I find it most satisfying and meditative and would really like to make it part of a daily practice.