This week’s Diva Challenge really struck a chord with me. If you haven’t read it, she talks about attitude while tangling. There was a big discussion over on the CZT Facebook group about the difference between tangling for relaxation and tangling to make something pretty, or Zentangle vs. ZIA. Just like the difference between tangling and doodling, the… Continue reading On Overthinking
The following is an article I wrote for my friend Ann over at Ann Grasso Pattern Art. Why not pop on over and see what else she has on her site? I find it inspiring. I will admit to being a recovering perfectionist. Not content simply to be valedictorian, I graduated with a perfect 4.0.… Continue reading Zentangle & the Art of Shell Collecting
Have trouble tangling for its own sake and letting go of expectations? Try tangling ‘wrong-handed.’
I received Robert Genn’s newsletter today. In it, he adapted Neil Gaiman’s Eight Rules of Writing for painters. As he said, “Rules are meant to be thrown, poked, and reshaped to suit yourself.” I was inspired to reshape them for tanglers. Here is what I came up with. 1. Tangle. 2. Put your first… Continue reading Eight Rules for Tangling
As I mentioned in part 1, I’ve been thinking a lot about the name of things. It started when working on the book and trying to sort out exactly when it is appropriate to give a pattern a new name and when more appropriate to call it a tangleation of an existing tangle. There was… Continue reading Chicago TARDIS, Part 2, Waxing Philosophical
Tangled Up In Art 