Rick writes: Something caught my eye as I glanced toward the open window in my office. It appeared as rain drops on a calm pond – just like the example we use to describe aura in the Zentangle Method.  ("Aura" refers to lines which follow an existing shape at a small distance like in our tangle crescent moon.) I got out my phone and took this picture from my desk: What was going on? I got up from my desk and walked over. This is what I saw when I looked down:  It was a series of Bijou step-out tiles for crescent moon I...

Maria writes: Well, now. How could we have ever predicted that there were so many creative, thoughtful writers in our Zentangle community? (On second thought, how could we not have!) The response to this blog post was so delightful. It took us a long time to go through them carefully and not rush. We could have chosen 50 we really loved, and yet would have struggled with even that limitation. The selections we finally came up with are wonderful. We decided that we should have five "runners up" in each category so that it could give you an idea of...

Rick writes: In 2007, we started BLOG Zentangle and began our enjoyable series of conversations within our Zentangle community. In reading through these blog posts with their insightful comments, we decided to bring a few of them to your attention from time to time. It is easy, for me anyway, to sometimes think of old information as stale information. But these insights and conversations are anything BUT stale! Today, we invite you to revisit this blog from 2018...                      Begin previous post . . .                   Molly writes: This topic comes up often. We see it discussed through different social media...