Maria writes... Hello everyone. It's a great day to tangle! I was thinking about new tanglers, and the questions and doubts that may concern them in the beginning. I have been doing this so long now that I have almost forgotten what it was like to wonder "what was the next step?", "did I do this right?", "will this look good?".   Then it came to me! There are so many seasoned tanglers, with so much knowledge, experience, passion, gratitude...that maybe, just maybe they would be willing to give just one piece of advice to the person just starting out on...

Rick Roberts This post is about the tangle paradox. For the tile below, I first drew a flower of life pencil string with a compass on a white Zentangle Opus Tile. Then I used a straight edge and pencil to connect certain points of the pattern. With a Sakura Pigma® Micron 01, I traced certain lines to define the triangles and trapezoids, some of which I left empty in the lower right.  In that almost empty lower-right hexagonal grid, I tangled a single triangle and a single trapezoid. I wanted you to see them standing alone because it is difficult to...

Maria writes... Our home, to me, is a museum of Rick's and my worlds together​.   His and my musical instruments are sprinkled here and there, remnants of "bee" things can be seen in any room, and other little hints at what he's been doing lately.  I also love being surrounded by all things Zentangle. It inspires me, warms me and I can revisit the wonderful memories (re: meditation) that they bestowed upon me. The latest "installation" in our museum is a new board on which to easily mount our latest works of art.   This frame formerly housed an old print that neither...