Rick and Maria write...  You cannot focus on tangling and cultivate your fears at the same time. The Zentangle Method offers you the chance to set aside your concerns and fears, even if it’s only for the time it takes to tangle your tile. The same scary thing may be there when you finish tangling. But you will be more relaxed and better able to deliberately respond to whatever is going on. So, pick a time, perhaps right now. Get out your pen, your paper, your pencil. Get comfortable. Find something to be grateful for. And tangle.  When you finish, take...

Maria writes: Hi everyone.  Today’s blog is about “mysaics.” We are all familiar with the word mosaic (in the world of Zentangle). It is a collection of tiles, created by a group of individuals, assembled into a grid for presentation purposes: to admire, to appreciate, to learn from.  But, what would you call a mosaic all made up of only one artist’s tiles?  Mysaic, of course!    It occurred to me that I had never gathered up all (!) my tangles and appreciated the interplay and glow that only a mysaic can deliver.   Well, for me, it was quite an effort to actually find all my tangles. They...

When Maria and I knew we were going to Taiwan for zenAgain-Asia, we wanted to introduce a new tangle at that special event. While we were in Germany for the first Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT) seminar in Europe, we took some time to visit friends near Munich. While there, we visited museums and cathedrals and architecture in that beautiful city -- always with an eye out for patterns and possibly a new tangle. As you may know, we found just such a pattern on some china (appropriately).  That pattern became a new pattern we named hollis. The other day, I noticed the...