A New Year,........A New Tangle

A New Year,............A New Tangle

Well, Hello!!!!!

Yes,.......It has been quite a long time! 

I have found it it really hard for me to keep up on all the different social media venues. (I don’t know how all of you moms out there do it,.....?? Please share your secret ;0).......)

Anyways, the main reason I’m posting, and I do have to say, “It does feel kinda good to do so.”

I have created a new tangle. I stumbled across it when doing my daily Zenuari 2018 challenges, put out by Anoeska Waardenburg. So Day 13, ‘Make Your Own Fragment’, is how it appeared to me. I saw this Greek ceramic tile on Pinterest, and thought that I could use a fragment of it to create my new fragment. And so it was, “Eleetz’ was born.

The name is ’tile’  backwards, but the double EE’s are from the word Greek, and the added Z represents Zenuari. 

I looked around, there are similar tangles but I do feel it is original. So here it is.

It really is quite easy. Have fun with Eleetz!

Now just for fun, try drawing ‘Eleetz’ like you would ‘Mooka’. If you’re like me and ‘mooch’ is one of your favorites, you can draw ‘Eleetz’ all in one pen swoop and not have to lift your pencil. Just let it flow. As you can see it is versatile to. It really is an addicting tangle, if you like organic, flowing tangles. I have been trying to study the Vintage Baroque, floral scroll, filagree style, and it is a beautiful combo of ‘icanthis’ and ‘mooch’. So I think ‘eleetz’ will flow right along with that style. Please give it a try and if you do, post it on Instagram with hashtag #eleetz and add @theartzenter so I can see what you have created.

Here is the fragment I used for the Zenuari prompt. Remember it is just a fragment and from the fragment I created the tangle. 

Here is ‘eleetz’ fragment and in a spiral Reticula. In the lower right corner you can see the fragment.

Please, if you are interested in learning about fragments and reticula, I recommend you purchase the book "Primer Volume 1”, from Zentangle Headquarters. It took me a bit to wrap my head around the understanding of the two, but once I got it,.......it was like an epiphany!!! Wow!!

So many new ways to create your tiles.

Happy New Year!

'WOWMOM'

New Tangle

by Me

'WOWMOM'

   Well, hello there!!! Yes, I know,...........It has been too long since my last post. Let's just say,.....Life happens!!! It's a good thing, but it is difficult to have the perfect time management. There are the 'have to' things to do, the 'want to' things to do, and 'soon' things. Anyway with all of that said, you can get the idea of why I have not posted recently.

   This summer has been filled with many trips, some close and some further away, for my family to travel to. While traveling, I see so many designs and patterns just waiting to be deconstructed. So many that are already tangles that have been deconstructed, (That is what is so fascinating about Zentangle. Whether brought to us by nature or hundreds of thousands of years old textiles, the inspiration is there!!!!) My family had taken a trip, by metro link (train), to San Juan Capistrano. We went there to see the old Mission. Since we were going to travel there, we thought we would attend mass at the Basilica. 

   "Wow", that's all I could say when we entered into the beautiful church. It reminded me of some of the old churches we went to while traveling in Europe. (Of course, without the history and years.) As we were leaving, after mass, I saw this unique pattern that caught my eye. I do believe it is one that I have not seen as a deconstructed tangle. If you look at it, it looks as though it says 'MOM'. Well, I thought to myself. 'If it kept going in a round circle, it would eventually spell out 'WOW'. So there you have it. My inspiration!!!

Click image to enlarge. In gold, on the curve, is the beautiful design that looked like, to me, 'MOM'. (Do you see similarities of Henna Drum right beneath it?) Way cool, right?

There are many ways to change it and create lots of variations.

    So here you have it,.......the step outs to my new tangle "WOWMOM'.

   I hope you enjoy it and have some fun!!

   Kids start back to school this Friday, so I imagine I will have some free time to get back to blogging. 

   Blessings to all!! I hope your summer vacation has brought you much relaxation and time spent with loved ones!

Go 

put some

Zen 

 into this

TaNgLed

World

!!!

:0)

'L ZEN 7's'

' L zen 7's '

   The story of this new tangle is pretty exciting to me! My 5 year old daughter was tangling on my downloaded template from The Bright Owl, Zendala Dare #110. As I was watching her do her deliberate little strokes and filling in the different areas, I had to stop her and ask her to repeat what she had just done. She was simply making a capital 'L' and then adding a '7' or backwards or upside down 7. Anyway, I said, "oh my, I think you might have created a new tangle!" So I played with it a while and I think I have come up with a way to make it a very versatile and fun lil' tangle. All because of my 5 year old's inspiration! 

   It seemed like such a simple tangle, that I thought it probably has been discovered and step outs made for it already. So I checked the famous Dictionary of Tangles, TanglePatterns, with Linda Farmer, and could not see anything like it. Then I Googled, tangle L7, and found that there is a quilting pattern already named L7.  "Bummer!" So,.... I sat and made my step outs and was visiting with my 8 year old and telling him my frustration, and 'HE', then gave me inspiration. He said, "Mom, why don't you call it 'L zen 7's'?" So there you have it! This turned out to be a family project!!! Yay,.... I just love when a plan comes together, especially when it's inspired by, love of family!!!

   I think it will make a great filler for background or just filling in space from a string.

Do you see how she was drawing these lines?  What's great about this tangle is, that it is one of those that if you rotate your tile at a 180, you can still draw an L and a 7 and it works. So, crazy, fun!!!!

click to enlarge

   I'd like to hear what you think of 'L zen 7's'. I hope you like it and find it to be one of your 'go to' tangles! Enjoy your day!

Go put

some

Zen

into this

TaNgleD

world

!!

:0)

'Quickzly'

My New Tangle

'QUICKZLY'

My inspiration! 

   About 2 months ago, when my husband and I had a little getaway to Las Vegas, (for a recycling convention), I saw so many inspiring tangles just waiting to be deconstructed.  I had to "quickly" take this picture before we passed it by. So I kind of modified the word "quickly" to make it a little more Zen friendly! Here are the step outs! Hope you like it!!!

click to enlarge    (This tangle is from a sister blog, Call it what you Quill and is from the same owner of The Art Zenter) 

A little Duotangle. 'Quickzly' and 'Mooka'

Go put

some 

Zen 

into this

TanGled 

world

!

:0)

'aMAZEn'

New Tangle

'aMAZEn'

   As you may all know, I have three children. They are all excited about Zentangle, and some nights or extra hours on weekends, you can find all of us sitting at the table tangling, drawing, and/or coloring. I just love those times! (I just wish there were enough hours in the day to have more of them.) Anyway, my kids are always trying to come up with new tangles. (Most of the time, I have to tell them that their new creation, is in fact, already a tangle.) They are always coming up with ideas for new inventions too. (I'm just hoping that one day, it'll be something that will actually work and we can take it to Shark Tank (the TV series). ) It always amazes me how kid's brains work.

   So that takes me to the reason for this post. My middle child woke up one morning, so excited, telling me he thinks he created a new tangle. So he explained it to me and then tried drawing it out. I got his idea, right away, but he had a few glitches. But together, we were able to figure it out and create step outs for it. 

   Since it is actually creating mazes, ones that people can actually try and figure out, we agreed that it should be called 'aMAZEn'. I hope you like it!  (And if there is something like it out there already, please let me know.) 

   Actually, I forgot to mention, I don't really even know if it would be considered a true tangle. (I know there is a name for this kind of pattern, but I can't think of it.) Anywho, here it is!

As you can see, it works great as a space filler! Click on image to enlarge   (This tangle is from a sister blog, Call it what you Quill and is from the same owner of The Art Zenter) 

   I hope you give it a try! I worked in Helen Williams' 'Tumbleweed' with this Zentangle.

Have an aMAZEn, day everybody!!!

Go put

some

ZEN

into this 

TanGLeD

world

!

:0)

'Sit'Zen'

My New Tangle

"Sit'Zen"

   It is funny how we get our inspiration! Especially in the Zentangle world. There are tangles out there in nature, on clothing, wrought iron, jewelry, ..........You name it!!! They are out there just waiting to be deconstructed and put into simple, easy step outs for all of us to have fun with.

   Take for instance this chair,........

The upper part on the back of this folding chair is what inspired me.

   

   So here I was sitting in, on a meeting for my daughter's preschool class. The information from this meeting was a waste of time. (Well, I guess not entirely, because I had gotten distracted and noticed this beautiful pattern on the back of the chair in front of me.) WOW!!!

   There was a lady just 'sit'zen there on my inspiration, so I couldn't really take of pic of the back of that chair. So on my way out, after I had figured out how to deconstruct 'sit'zen', and I had had enough of the meeting, I was able to snap this pic of a chair stacked on the wall.

   Here are the step outs and ta-dah,........... Here is 'Sit'Zen'!!!

(This tangle is from a sister blog, Call it what you Quill and is from the same owner of The Art Zenter) can click on images to enlarge!

This is my original that I had worked on during the meeting.

Please give it a try!

   Have an awesome day!

:0)

'X-DID'

'X-DID'

   Back on my July 28 post, when I posted my new tangle 'Ooples', I mentioned that my inspiration was a woman's blouse in church. (Of course I could not take a photo of her blouse, being that I was in church,......!!) So as soon as I got in the van, I sketched out what it looked like. Her blouse also had another design on it and so I drew that one too, knowing I would have to come up with a way to deconstruct it. 'Ooples' was an easy one to deconstruct, but this other one would take some figuring out!!!

   Anyway, this is what I came up with. If you think there might be a better way of deconstructing it please share your link in my comments so that anybody can see it. I found that it is one of those tangles that can take on many variations. It's quite fun! So give it a try!!

These are actually more variations of this tangle. It really is endless!!

In the above picture, the big 'X-DID' all by itself in the lower right, was the actual design that I had seen on that lady's shirt. The whole shirt and pattern had an American Indian look to it.

   I chose this name because I used, 'X's' as the main part of my deconstruction. It just kinda fell into place! Enjoy!!!

(This tangle is from a sister blog, Call it what you Quill and is from the same owner of The Art Zenter) deconstruction, with 3 variations.

4th variation and completed tile.

This is my outline before I filled it in!

If you look at the first pic, you can see my light string of graduated circles. Then I just turned my paper and added 'X-DID' in each circular strip. 

 

And the outcome after adding weight to lines and shading, it looks like a flower! Pretty cool, huh?

This was one of my trials before actual doing my final drawing, on how-to deconstruct, for you. Kinda neat how they line up and create a whole new design vertically too!

   I would love to hear if you like it! So please drop me a lil message, if you can!

In the meantime,........

............go put some Zen 

into this Tangled world!

:0)

'Ooples'

'Ooples'

   Two Sundays ago, in church, there was a lady sitting in front of me with a blouse on that had a kind of crochet pattern running along the back. I thought, wow, that would make a great tangle! Then I started studying the rest of the material on her blouse and I saw another tangle pattern! (Really,............ I was paying attention to what I should in church.) Oh, and the other tangle I will share with you at another time. Anyways, here is 'Ooples'!

(This tangle is from a sister blog, Call it what you Quill and is from the same owner of The Art Zenter)

Notice the difference in the petals, once I used the burnisher pencil. It actually smoothes out colored pencil.

Final picture.

The background pattern in this tile is called 'Block'd' by Jane Eileen. Go here to see step outs.

   I hope you like this tangle and have as much fun as I did with it! I believe there are a lot of possibilities with it too. Give it a try!!!

And remember, 

Go put some Zen

in this tangled  world!!

:0)

'120 Ribbonz'

'120  Ribbonz'

   This is a new tangle that I created, inspired by my niece, and her battle with brain cancer! The title of this is to let people know that their are 120 different types of brain cancer. And the color of brain cancer awareness is gray! Please use this tangle and help promote Brain Cancer Awareness, and/or any other cancer! Let's spread the word! Let's show our compassion!!!

Again, let's show support to our loved ones and/or anyone out there that is battling cancer!

Tangle '120 Ribbonz' and show we care!!
Start that 'Ripple Effect'!

My new tangle: "120 Ribbonz" (This tangle is from a sister blog, Call it what you Quill and is from the same owner of The Art Zenter)

Click to enlarge The outer border is a variation of '120 Ribbonz'

 :0) 

'hugz IN kizzez'

hugz IN kizzez

   Here is my very first tangle of my own. I always sign letters and cards with an XO. So with Valentine's on the way, I figured it would be a good time to share this tangle! There are many ways to show different variations of it too, but I have just included one finished tangle. I hope to add a Zia that suites Valentine's Day!

Here is the deconstruction.

(This tangle is from a sister blog, Call it what you Quill and is from the same owner of The Art Zenter)

This was just a fun Zentangle. As you can see I keep on using Aquafleur! I can't seem to get it out of my system!!

For this one I used Tangle Patterns String 016 and Tangles hugz IN kizzez, Angels Fish, and Bubbles

Ps. If you have a moment, you might want to check out this fun little ditty about XO's. It's kinda cute! How XO came to be Kisses and Hugs and then this one too, Urban dictionary: XO. Both are probably senseless info that might help you out with Trivial Pursuit, someday! hahaha

And now, since first writing this post, I have now come up with some Valentine's influenced Zias!

   This tangle contains, hugz IN kizzez, Mooka, and Jailed Johnny!

Without any red!

With a touch of added red!!

   This Zia is a Helen Williams, inspired piece! Man,......she is amazing! You must check out her blog and see all the other impeccable Zias and tangles that she creates! She definitely has a style, all her own! But it's fantastic!!! Anyway, her tangle is Heartline and then I added my creation of hugz IN kizzez!

   I do hope you try this tangle and let me know what you think!

Go put some Zen, 

into this Tangled world!!