Hearken verb to hear with intention to give respectful attention to bring to mind something in the past: hearken back Today, January 1, 2023, we celebrate New Year’s Day of 2023. This is an appropriate time to look back on, or hearken back to, the previous year of 2022.  When you finish a Zentangle tile, we always encourage you to hold it at arm’s length and appreciate what you’ve created from a different perspective. We also encourage you to turn it this way and that so you can see what you created from different orientations. You may notice compositions and...

Whew.. Project Pack No. 19 was certainly one for the books. It was big, it was ambitious, it was daunting, it was inspiring. We approached this project pack series a little different than most. Our tangling team each worked on their own piece in the same order that you all did. Molly filmed Day 1, and then we all tangled that day and then waited for the next person to film Day 2 and so on.. Before we even began, Molly kept telling us to “trust the process.” I remember she gave me several reminders and then right before I...

Almost twenty years ago, Rick and Maria were inspired to share a method of drawing to help people rediscover the artist within. This drawing method broke down the creation of beautiful art to simple strokes, creating a very easy to learn art form. Before any stroke is made on paper and upon the completion of a tile, the steps of the Zentangle Method are wrapped with Gratitude and Appreciation. Intertwined with the marks on the paper are the philosophies that travel off the paper and into our lives: No Mistakes, Anything is Possible, Tangle Your Own Conclusions, and Turn your...