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The tile I created today as part of International Day of Zentangle, a monotangle of #idoz - which was debuted today by Rick and Maria in a live stream. Really fell in love with the organic overlapping nature of it,.and the possibilities for embellishments.
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Weekend #TangleBirds raffle. Started with an amoeba string, and used Trelina and Oybay, with some super tiny Shiloh embellishments.
Ink and graphite.
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First triangular tile I've done, based on a #TangleBirds raffle, including the tangles Morrisseau, Drupes, Moon Pie, and Finery, with the enhancers "distort fragment" and uneven spacing.
Ink, graphite, colored pencil, and watercolor pencil.
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Made time to tangle this weekend, creating a bud from the tangles Kamala and Bunzo, with a Skorpio stem and Joki leaves.
Ink (black and gray), graphite, and watercolor pencil.
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Memorial Day weekend tangle, with a #tangleBirds raffle prompt that included using a tangle as a string (I used Spoken), gust, sworbs, tagh, and crease, with the enhancers of decorative borders and small gems.
Really enjoyed how the blend between sworbs, crease, and the gems appeared.
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A Mother's Day tangle - Kamala, Verdigogh, Jetties, and twisted ropes.
Ink, graphite, watercolor pencils, and colored pencils.
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4x4 distressed tile, using ink and colored pencils. Tangles include Sworbs, Pickpocket (ribbon variation), and Zinger.
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Weekend tangle. I used a composite Donut and Tri-Radial string, with Trisclip, Wyforwings, Gust, and Laquinta.
Ink with graphite.
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Quick ATC tangle this morning. Square spiral string with Moonesque, Oleasligero, Betweed, Festune, and Poke Leaf.
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A little over three months following a shoulder dislocation, I'm finally drawing some original artwork, outside of classes. This one was a star string, with Xac, Fitzi, an Ellish tangleation, and Fescu.
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Tangle done during #eniOkenArtClub, in a session where we discussed "tangle matchmaking". This uses the "walk by the pond" string, with Wartz, Opus, and Fescu, as well as a low-contrast Patena in the background.
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This weekend's tangle: Isochor, Arukas, an Ellish tangleation, Trigue, and Mooka, with a wrapped frame and low contrast background.
Ink and graphite.
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Sunday tangle, playing with some dimensional tangling and shading, as well as frames and tassels.
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Tile done during an #eniOkenArtClub class the past two weeks. We were playing with dimensional techniques, both while creating the drawing, and then with shading. Really enjoyed the low contrast background, which we did completely with graphite and tortillon.
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Did the line art for this around 7 weeks ago, and finally got around to shading it today. Tangles include Snack, Arukas, Zinger, Mooka, Tabs, and a few others I can't remember the names of.
Ink (both black and gray) and graphite.
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Afternoon relaxation. Wrapped frame with a Snack orb, Dillo-Tant, Zinger, Mooka, and a ton of other tangles.
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Zentangle Back to Basics, 2022 Retrospective
This week in Eni Oken's Art Club, we did a 2022 retrospective, and went back to basics with a standard Z-string tile. Here are my reflections and thoughts.
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Been working on this one for a week; large tile (5.5" vs my standard 3.5"), tons of overlap and wrapping. Was fascinating to watch the textures emerge as I was shading.
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Really proud of this one. Wrapped frame with Arukas, done during an #eniOkenArtClub class this week. Deep deep shading with fine detail.
Ink and graphite.
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First tangle I've felt like posting in a while. Utilizes the tangles Truly, Noom, and Arukas (latter 2 we worked with during #eniOkenArtClub this week), and includes both black and light gray ink with graphite.
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This weekend's tangle. A complex string with Snack, Marola, a fragment from Dinovel, Ravel as a weed, and Mooka, with a wrapped partial frame.
Ink and graphite.
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Drew this last weekend, but just shaded today as I've been ill all week. Features Voadora, Bunzo, Flukes, and Huggins.
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Another tile based on a lesson a couple weeks ago in #eniokenartclub - featuring Marola, Bailarine, and Shoufleur. Really enjoyed the small details and crazy shading challenges of this one!
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Tile drawn as part of a session of #eniokenartclub - I went a bit of a different direction, but the tile has most of the elements we worked on in class (Marola, Shoufleur, and Bailarine in a triangle string). Quite happy with the final product!
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A tangle to start the long weekend. Tangleation of Classe, Ration, and Quib, with Moon Pie.
Ink with graphite.
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Second tangle from this past week - a tangleation of Fengle and Toodles, with a bit of Inaura poking in.
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First of three tangles finished this week. Spiral string with embellished Umble, Kwazeela, and Ravel.
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And I've not been sitting idly since getting back home! Finished this one yesterday - Fr'eggs, Rhozhki, BB, and Quandu.
Ink with graphite.
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Fourth and last tile from camping. Drawn on a mini Phi tile (2 x 3.25 in.), It features Squill, Beelight, and Moon Pie.
Ink with graphite.
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My second tangle while camping. Using the @enioken art raffle, I drew a bouquet string, ayame, and fitzi, and this is where it took me.
Ink with graphite.
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Was camping this week, and thus doing a lot of drawing. This is the first of four I'm going to trickle out.
Tangles include Well, Prasima, Vega, Inaura, and Rixty 3D.
Ink with graphite.
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Last tangle for the long weekend - back to basics, with the Z string. If u can even see it anymore...
Flukes, Hollis, zentwining, and Mooka, with a bit of Sez.
Ink with graphite.
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Tangle for a long weekend - thinking the shading got a wee bit too dark on it, but I had a ton of great zenflow working on the fine detail.
Ink and graphite.
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Weekend tangle (though I started it Thursday). Too many tangles to list. Hated it until I started shading, and now I love it. As they say, trust the process!
Ink with graphite.
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Quick Sunday tangle on a bijou tile. Huggins, Bales, Sedgwick, Lunar Flux, Printemps, and Pixiose.
Ink with graphite.
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Tile from a class in #eniokenartclub with @enioken - bridge transitions. I went a bit off-script, but really enjoyed the techniques presented. Tangles include Bales, Sedgwick, Jaysix, and Mooka-3D.
Ink with graphite.
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Monday night tangle, on a bijou tile.
It'll be bigger on your phones and tablets than in real life...
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Three years tangling!
The past two years, I've worked on something to commemorate the occasion; this year, I've been so crazy busy it didn't hit me until I was halfway done shading this tile.
I've come a long way, largely due to the wonderful #eniokenartclub and our gracious instructor, @enioken herself. Thanks, Eni - I'm a better artist because of you!
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Another study in tangle blending and shading. Tangles include Bales, Trigue, Zinger, Mooka 3D and Diva Dance.
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Weekend tangle - a vine string, 3d Rixty, Drawings, Crescent Moon, and low contrast peanuckle and 'nzeppel in the background.
Ink and graphite, 3" tile.
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Waiting for some good news, drawing to keep grounded. More tangle blending, on a 2.5" tile, using Marasu, Effie, Diva Dance, Nipa, 'Nzeppel, Evoke, and Trigue.
Ink with graphite.
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Finally got some tangling in again! More study of tangle blending, with Gourdgeous, Nipa, Tabs, Evoke, Huggins, Trigger, Ing, and 'Nzeppel.
Ink with graphite.
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Completed tile. Tangles include Mooka 3D, Molygon towers, and Rixty trees. Background made of distress inks by my wife, @jwodesignsmixedmedia - media includes ink, graphite, pastel, colored pencil, and gel pen.
Many thanks to #eniokenartclub for critique and advice and being a fantastic artist community!
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Sundays are for tangling... Got to a point early in this one where I wasn't sure I liked what I was drawing, but decided to trust the process and just keep drawing.
Ink and graphite. Tangles include Poke Leaf, Oybay, Nacho, and Swerve.
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Playing with some new-to-me techniques, with a standard B&W tile.
Tangles include Meessanga, Copada, Voadora, Molygon, and Printemps.
Ink with graphite.
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Smallish tile (2.5") to play with transitions. Kwazeela, Flukes, Mooka 3D, Rixty 3D, Paradox, Black Pearls, and Zinger. Ink with graphite. #zentangle #zentangleinspiredart
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Did a bit bigger tile this time (5 inches square); had several good, long drawing sessions' worth of Zen flow. Tangles include Spoken, Trelina, Mooka3D, Oopsmi, Baton, Black Gems, and Tripoli. Ink, graphite, and watercolor pencils.
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Finished this a couple nights ago. W-2, icanthis, Sprinkle, and ribbons. Ink, watercolor pencils, and graphite. #zentangle #zentangleinspiredart
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This one has taken the better part of a week... Sooooo many orbs and fragments!
Zentwined purk, Poke root, and Printemps.
Ink, colored pencil, and watercolor.
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Weekend tangle, with Kwazeela and Rixty 3D (both by @enioken ) and Shattuck.
Ink, graphite, colored pencil, and white gel pen.
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Finished up a tangle i started over the weekend. Tink, Mooka3D, Zinger, Tidings and Warble. Ink and graphite.
Really enjoyed the zen flow both drawing and shading this!
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First tangle of the new year. Watercolor tile with the tangles Xac, Gurdell, Pezino, and Rixty3D. Ink with graphite.
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Potentially my last tangle of 2021! Auraknot, Boulder Builder, Lunar Flux, and Heartrope. Ink and graphite.
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Finished a tile, and it's only Monday! Sand swirls, voadora (by @enioken ), Nik, and Naaki.
Ink, graphite, and colored pencil.
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Really happy with this one. Blossom consisting of printemps, Lunar Flux, Twing, and Mooka 3D. Enyshou and Fescue poke out from behind.
Ink, graphite, and colored pencil.
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Holiday tangle. Started huge, and wasn't terribly happy with it... And then just kept embellishing, embellishing, embellishing... And now it's one of my favorite recent tiles.
Ink, graphite, and colored pencil.
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New tile - Floo-ish, Sworbs, Onomato, Nik, and Knightsbridge. Black and brown ink, with graphite.
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Got a tangle in - used a distorted Ogee grid, with Rixty variations, mooka, Dewd, Nik, and Evoke. Ink with graphite.
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So nice to work on a regular sized tile again! Tangleation of Spynes, BB, Diva Dance, and organicized Rixty.
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Days 22 and 23 of #inktobertangles2021 - Paradisum and Ple-A.
Ink, graphite, and watercolor pencil.
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This tile took... awhile. Fracas/echoism/Sworbs tango, pickpocket with betweed, MI2 with betweed, and Sez (background). Ink, graphite, and colored pencil.
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Two years tangling! First post I finished today, second a year ago, and the third was two years ago. Who said old dogs can't learn new tricks?
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Tile six in a series - really pleased with this one... Curious where the next will go. Bale's, Crescent Moon, Printemps, and Hollibaugh.
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Playing with water soluble brushes and pens, and a bit of water color pencil. B'Tweed, Mooka, and Fescue.
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First tile of a long weekend (granted, all I did today was shade!) Tangles include Palrevo, Gust, Moon Rice, and poke root.
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New art supplies to try out, so a small tangle! Derwent Graphic pen, and a Prismacolor Ebony pencil. Knots and Ruutz.
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This weekend, I took a deep dive into the tangle "Elven" by H Elena, and created an infographic to show some of the variations I discovered. (Learn how to do these infographics in #eniokenartclub !)
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Standard tile, ink, colored pencil, and watercolor. Tangles used include XLnt, Printemps, Wartz, Echoism, and Huggins (with fragments L2 and L3).
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More overlapping practice, this time on an ATC. Springkle, IX, and Printemps, all from @zentangleinc
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Tangling during a day off - practicing overlapping with Rixty, Mooka, and Onomato (with 'Dillo thrown in for embellishment). Ink, watercolor pencil, and black graphite.
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Got inspired, and got another tile done. Humble -> W2 tango, using Sails, Oybay, Hibred, and Dropz in the ribbons; Toodles; and Mooka 3D. Hatching using a micron 01.
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Finished up a tangle for the first time this week! Pen and black colored pencil, featuring Rixty 3d, Charts, Colada, and Frost Flower.
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First weekend tangle completed, though I cheated by starting this one earlier in the week. Purk, Purisma, Joki tango; Inaura; Palrevo; on. "J" string.
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Tile for this week's Keeping it Classic challenge. Rixty (3d variant), Mooka, Flux, Hollibaugh, and Tipple.
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Finished a tangle today with freeform knots, decorative borders (used in the ribbons), and a tangleation of Amarin and Aruna (both by @tangled.pursuits ). Ink, colored pencil, and watercolor pencil.
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Got a tangle done - couple of good nights of Zen flow! Tangles include Kwazeela by @enioken , Unbirthday by @havepen_willdraw , and 3d poke root. Pen and black colored pencil.
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Another long tangle - started it a week ago - but partly due to size (4.5" tile) and detail. This one is a Dingbats, with too many patterns to list.
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First attempt at #maptangling - my wife, @jwodesignsmixedmedia , provided the color, I brought the tangles.
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Finished tile! This one is an apprentice tile (4.5" square). Upper left is a tangleation of Pickpocket (@tomas_padros) and Elegans, Shattuck, and Twing. Foremost sphere is A-Frame, and the other two are Beelight. Background is Opus.
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I've been doing the #zentangle #pp07 all week, but finally took time to just tangle something on my own today. This one brings in the Zingsplat + peppering introduced on day 3 (?), and the Quandary-as-reticula + Wells introduced on day 7. These project packs are great for breaking me out of some of my ruts and habits!
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