This year, more than ever, I think we are all looking forward to beginning a new year. We are so grateful for the Zentangle community and the beauty and inspiration shared with artists all over the world.  One of our favorite ways to connect with the Zentangle community is through our blog. In 2020, we shared 52 posts with you and you all joined us in thought provoking, problem solving, and Zentangle inspired conversations. Today we share our top 5 blogs of 2020 with you all. If you've already read them, we think they are worth visiting again. If you missed these...

Alfie writes: Today's tile was designed and tangled for you by Maria, with today's video commentary from both Maria and Rick. They seem to work well together, like the tangles she chose. These tangles are some of her absolute favorites for many reasons.  Mooka has flowy spirited lines that can grow in almost any direction. She loves to shape and extend those mooka tendrils so they explode onto her tile in a state of joy and contentment (perhaps describing her life and the gratitude she has for it). She also is known to smile (a lot) whenever she draws mooka, so there's that. The other tangle, mi2, is an...

Alfie writes: Inhale, exhale. Inhale, exhale.  Ah . . . Breathing.  A simple but necessary function for me, all of you, and Bijou, too (a land snail). It might just be the most important exercise any of us need to do, and yet how often do we concentrate on just that? Deep nourishing breaths, ones that make us light-headed. Remember as children, we would sometimes hold our breaths to see who could hold it the longest? Then we would all fall on the grass, (or sand) and laugh 'til there were tears in our eyes. Maybe those games we played were some of the more important things...