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...

"On the Ninth Day of Zentangle . . ."   On the ninth stroke of Zentangle R and M moved on,   Black and tan square Bijou It was inevitable that before too long we would find room for both black and Renaissance Bijou tiles. These adorable small tangling surfaces proved to be ideal for more than we imagined. Zentangle artists across the world were creating tiny tangled masterpieces.  In January of 2016 we unveiled the black Bijou tile, followed by the Renaissance Bijou in September. In that same year after many requests we made all of Bijou's Bijouisms available too.  On...