I have mixed feelings about this page. This is where I left off with it when I quit working on this art journal.
I knew I wanted it to be a goddess figure. The shape is very much like primitive statues found in various archaeological sites.
I also wanted to add wings to it. I couldn‘t decide if I wanted to mask off the doll, or just put them right over it. The easy, simple method won out and I just stenciled them over the doll figure.
Elevation.
It‘s interesting how much shadow and light influences us. Here, I chose to move the shadows of the disks and D.-D. away from the tangles enough to create the illusion that they were “floeating over the rest. I think it was very effective on this tile.
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black Micron pen.
Tangles: Ambler Cool 'Sista Dessus-Dessous Florez Flux Gryst Snare Stoic
Even though I made a weird mistake in the Eyewa, and “fixed” it by making it a “eye”, this is still one of my favorite Zentangles. I love the blank area in the middle, and so many people have told me various things it reminds them of! What do YOU see?
The tangle below Munchin is a variation of Chevron.
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen.
Hide-n-seek.
So, I drew the Marbaix tangle from the random jar two days in a row! I also got another “new” tangle: B‘Dylan, which I like a lot. This time, I hid part of the Marbaix medallion under another section, and I think it works better here. It adds contrast, but doesn‘t entirely take over the tile.
Zentangle drawn on official Zentangle tile using a black, Micron pen.
Tangles: B‘Dylan Blankett Dex Juke Marbaix Poke-Root Verdigogh Waves
No Mojo.
This is the first time I‘ve drawn Marbaix. I was thinking it would work as a central medallion, but I think it lacks the “oompf” of some of the other medallion-like tangles. I may experiment with mixing it with some other tangle to see how that works out.
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen.
Tangles: Bales Dribbetz Jetties Marbaix Pinch Pop-Cloud
Plenty.
That‘s how many tangles there are in this image. First of all, there‘s my favorite Inapod. I just love this tangle because it‘s easy to draw, kinda funky, and looks dramatic. Then all the rest of the tangles really shouldn‘t work together here, but they kind of do, and the shading lifts and individualizes each section.
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen.
Tangles: Amaze Angel Fish Ballot Box Spirals Chads Enyshou Huggins Inapod Puf Stef-Ah-Ni Venetian
This is the second page in the art journal. As it happens, it was almost the same color scheme as the cover. Here‘s what I started with.
In addition to the words, I finished the apron with some drawn flowers and leaves and added a sash. Since she works in a restaurant, her hair needed to be tied up, so the head band was a must. Other than that, I mostly added dimension and shadow to her clothing using colored pencil.
A little gold.
Sometimes, a little touch of gold can add a lot to a simple design. Here, I used a gold Pentel Slicci pen to add a bit of glitz to these Christmas ornaments.
Zentangle drawing done with Micron pen Pentel Slicci pen , on Strathmore Vellum Bristol .
Tangles: Aah Myrtle Scoodle Strata Twisted Ribbons Xyp
Under the tree.
I couldn‘t resist creating a tile that looked like Christmas presents under the tree!
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen.
Tangles: Black Box Checkers Purrlyz Repeat Pattern Stacks Sabi Verdigogh
‘Tis the Season.
I think it‘s not a party without a cake! This was from a random draw of tangles, but it worked out nicely!
Zentangle drawing done with Micron pen on Strathmore Vellum Bristol .
Tangles: Antidots Droplets Flux M‘spire Pendrills Sharalarelli
Paths.
In this tile, Twing kind of makes a path for you to follow in and out of the designs. There are probably too many tangle designs here, but I needed a bunch to fill in the string that I created.
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen.
Tangles: 2-N-5 Bubbles Chard Cootie Dandelion Seeds Pop-Cloud Quabog Stiritup Twing
Triangular.
I usually don‘t use straight lines to draw the string on my tile. Here, I decided to use straight lines to make triangular areas on my tile as the basic divisions.
I also had a hard time making up my mind, which was the visual “top” of the tile when I was finished, which is why Msst is moving in an uncommon direction.
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen.
From this, to that! When I stopped working on the art journal, the front looked like this.
The doll and hand were already glued down, but the doll wasn‘t finished.
The flap, which folds over from the back to keep the journal closed, had nothing done to it after the book was assembled. But that‘s good, because I can show you the process I used.
I used coordinated Copic markers to color in the black and white design stripes.
Simplicity.
I decided, for this tile, to return to the very roots of tangling. This string and these patterns are often used by CZTs when teaching the first Zentangle class.
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol with a black, Micron pen.
Tangles: Crescent Moon Florz Static Tipple
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol with a black, Micron pen.
Tangles: Printemps Cheesecloth Hollibaugh Pokeleaf Marasu Betweed
Shades of Grey.
Originally, I wanted to do a lot of grey values with pencil on this tile. But when that was done, the King‘s Crown pattern was very lost in the background and the black section on the Cirquitals looked too flat. Then I decided to add the white highlights, which I don‘t normally do on a white tile. Bingo! It just popped the designs right up and made them so much more dimentional. And I love the “plastic” look it gave to the crown design!
Quantity.
This string had a lot of individual “spaces” in it to fill with tangles. Since I selecting tangle patterns randomly, sometimes a busy tile works, and sometimes it doesn‘t. I think, for the most part, this one works.
Zentangle drawing done with Micron pen on Strathmore Vellum Bristol .
Tangles: Chicken Wire Chillon Gloven Hurry Knight‘s Cross Narwal Nzeppel Quabog Snail
I‘m not sure what was going on with my brain, here. This seems like a dream after watching a weird movie!
Zentangle drawing done with Micron pen on Strathmore Vellum Bristol .
Tangles: Bunzo Crewelery Daisy Beads Equerre Hypnotic Mi2 Pellet Sugarcane
If you have been a fan of this site for a few years, you may remember that I started an Art Journal a few years ago. I based the book‘s design on Teesha Moore‘s Amazing 16 Page Journal . I really like this type of art journal because the 8-inch by 10-inch format is a good size to work in and 16 pages is an attainable goal. Having a specific, low number of pages also allows me to explore a single theme in each booklet.
Accents.
To me, this looks like pieces of fabric on top of each other, with an accent piece made up of a ribbon rosette and cording sitting in the lower right. I like having some kind of focal point in my drawing but this one isn‘t quite right. It‘s not so much the placement, as the lack of contrast between it, and the tangles under it.
Zentangle drawing done with Micron pen on Strathmore Vellum Bristol .