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...

Do you ever hear a song on the radio and are instantly brought back to a moment in time? There is a line in one of my favorite songs, “..Funny how a melody sounds like a memory” and whether those memories are good or bad, I have always appreciated a songs ability to take me back in time. Recently, I have realized that tiles and tangles have that same ability. I have been working in a new journal lately, but recently I grabbed an old one by accident to bring home with me for the weekend. As I flipped through...