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...

Sometimes our tangles have stories or tales behind the pen strokes, and sometimes our pen strokes inspire stories or tales. When Maria posts a tile on the Zentangle Mosaic App she almost always shares with us some sort of creative narrative. Her words range from inspiring thoughts to fanciful tales. We thought we would share with you some of these parings in a blog series we are calling Maria’s Meanderings. -- + --- From April 2026...  This tile has been sitting around the house for some time. I love the elegance of the ellish curves (a bit loopy... like moi)....