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...

This week we handed the Zentangle Blog over to Jody Genovese, CZT, to find out what was possible when she asked herself, "How can I Help?" Thank you Jody for sharing your story with us and the Zentangle community! --- + --- Jody writes... Everyone who finds and practices Zentangle will tell you how much it has changed his or her life.  I know what it has done for mine.  The question is can you use it to help change someone else’s? We’ve all heard so many stories of how other people have been able to use Zentangle to make...