Thiele writes... We often talk about gratitude in the Zentangle practice. Once we have our space and our supplies ready, we take a moment to touch our paper and be grateful for the surface that we will soon fill with tangles. “But what about our pens,” Maria recently thought. Our gratitude should certainly be directed to where our ink flows from, too!When Maria was in art school, about 57 years ago, she had what they called a Rapidograph. It was the first modern, technical drawing pen, and while it required less maintenance than a quill, you still had to fill...

In May of this year, we honored Mental Health Awareness Month with our annual Bijou Be Well Series. For 21 straight days, we tangled one tangle a day, putting pen to paper for just 10-15 minutes, giving ourselves the gift of creativity and calm. Our surface was a Zentangle Opus tile, the largest tile in the Zentangle collection. Its generous size can feel a little intimidating at first, but there was comfort in that we were all filling these tiles together, one tangle at a time. I have finished Opus tiles before, and I was excited to start a new...

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our third annual International Day of Zentangle! Three years ago, we wondered what it might feel like if tanglers around the world paused at the same moment to put pen to paper together. Today, that idea has become a cherished tradition. Once again, thousands of you joined us from every corner of the world, gathering across time zones to celebrate creativity, connection, and the power of the Zentangle Method.  This year, we tangled polypoli! Polypoli is a distant cousin of the 2026 Tangle of the Year, tripoli. Tripoli is constructed by assembling triangle shapes...