April Tangling

Just discovered how beautiful the dark blue 05 Pigma draws on the Renaissance tiles. 
I also really like the Prismacolor pencil in 'baby poo mustard'.

Opus Tile

Opus Tile

Appreciating home

This last month evenings here in Tasmania have been wonderfully warm and tranquil, the soft light giving us that 'good to be home' feeling. Sometimes it's difficult to believe that there is chaos happening around the world. 

Stay safe, stay home, make this a time to slow down.

Blue water colour on a white tile

White Zendala

Tranzending

yellow water colour on a tan tile

Grey Opus

With garnets

Journal Pages

Freestyling through January 

No strings, no plans, just surprises

Happy New Year

May your year be filled with golden moments
Bloom and flourish
with space to breathe.

Christmas Wishes

This year (as always) 'The Twelve Days of Zentangle' has been full of exceptional projects to inspire our creative spirit.
Thank you so much Rick, Maria and Zentangle Team for all the superb delights.

Even though I didn't have the new grey tiles I played along with tan tiles and grey card. I will certainly be ordering the grey tiles in the new year along with the chalk pencils for super colours.

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All the best wishes for a safe, healthy and happy Christmas.

November Journal Pages

Practice with the new tangle hollis

Inktober 2019

One page in my journal for Inktober 2019

Daisy Number two

Paper size A4
The brown parts are actually the gold JellyRoll pen 

Hidden

There is something reaching out
a breeze through the grass
the day is turning gold
a mixture of feelings
is it hiding
rolling stirring grasping 
trying to take hold.
No wait I'll stay hidden a little longer.

Spring Daisy

The paper is size A4 which works really well when scanned, reduced and printed on cards and book marks.

Staying Calm

Balancing my day by staying calm but enjoying a little wildness on the side.

Blog 1000!

Blog 1000 means I have tangled over 1000 Zentangle pieces of art work. Most are on original tiles but many are large Zentangle Inspired Art works. The Opus tiles have become my favourites with that extra room to play and create. 

It's been almost 10 years since I started tangling and wow what an amazing time it's been, making wonderful friendships from all around the world and sharing this extraordinary art form has been an absolute delight for me. Thank you so much for all your fabulous comments, I sure have felt the love from our Zentangle community.

It's fun looking back over the time appreciating the change of my style. As an example here is a Mosaic that I finished last month with the 2nd one I that did in January 2012. They are the same pre-strung tiles.

May 2019

January 2012

Now for a couple of Opus tiles that I haven't posted but finished a couple of months ago. I have been loving my tangling time but just been a bit lackadaisical about sitting at the computer.

Opus Tile - Ruby birthstone for June

Opus Tile - Alexandrite - birthstone for July

Journal Pages

A couple of pages in my journal exploring Reticular and Fragments.

It's Well Well Who

Woohoo!
If you haven't seen the step outs for Well Well Who click here 

Journal Pages

Can you believe it? 
It's been too hot to tangle!!
Many people around the globe think that little Tasmania down at the bottom of the world is a cold place to live but this summer is turning out to be a scorcher with temperatures  well above 30 degree Celsius for quite a few days.
Early mornings have been the best time to tangle, here are a couple of pages from my journal with lesson 6 out of Zentangle Primer 1.

Happy New Year 2019

Calm..... according to the Collins Dictionary calm is not showing agitation or excitement. My plan for this year was to be calm at all times but it's good to be excited too. I like excitement so can we be calmly excited or excitingly calm? The dictionary also says calm is a peaceful state... I like that. So I'm going to try and be peaceful in an excited way...yay...woohooo...ahh...sigh!

Hope everyone can spring into 2019 with happiness, health and a carefree mind, be calm, throw in some excitement and enjoy the thrills!

Mosaic

The Diva's Weekly Challenge #376: String Theory and maybe a mosaic

The string on these tiles are just 2 curved lines but they pack a punch of pizzazz when placed as a mosaic.

Dewd

The Diva's  Weekly Challenge #372 "DEWD"

Dewd as a border on a tan Zendala tile. For a bit of glamour I added touches of gold with a Gelly Roll pen.

My journal.  Lesson 5 from Primer 1....No Mistakes.

Mandala

I just enjoyed 2 great days with Karen. The Creative Miss L, it was our annual catch up, chatting, drinking tea and tangling together. We started in the centre of our Opus tiles with an emerald which is her birthstone. The border came out completely different than we expected but isn't that the beauty of Zentangle, go with the flow and be surprised when it's finished?

Three Pages from my journal

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Journal Cover

Let's start from the very beginning!!

Yes, I have decided to go back to the start and work through Primer Vol. 1. I'm looking forward to calmly and mindfully re-connecting to the basic principles of Zentangle.

Cover Page

Page 1

Wishing everyone happiness.