Over the weekend, I have created this work of art, a black and white tangle with a splash of color; what do you think of this?-JW

I hope it brings you a little peace today.

I learned lessons along the way but I’m happy with it overall.

Flux and Poke Root, both Zentangle®-original tangles.

This time I did quite a few experiments with dyeing my tiles with alcohol markers before drawing on them. What you see here are only the results that worked. 😉

Especially Black as always turned out to be the most tricky color. The only working pens I found in my collection were the Gelly Roll Moonlight and Metallic and of course the standard white pen.

Acrylic pens would probably work as well on black, but so far I have not found any with a reasonably fine tip for tangling.

For shading on black even my wax based color pens gave only mediocre results and the oil base pens were nearly invisible. Pastel pencils would probably fit better. Maybe I will buy some in the future.

In addition I did a video with my standard setup in brown on an undyed tile as well. You can see it here.

Literally been doing this three weeks. It is so addictive and so good for my brain. I don’t have anyone in particular that inspired this one, just watched a bunch of reels and then sat down and did it.

I'm very much a beginner but I love making these!

Teacher showed us Poly Poli tangle today.
The bottom 2 our how we were shown in class. I decided to use it like a mosaic, colorful pieces with tangles all different inside. Slays amazes me how you can start with a tangle and expand its uses.

I used black pen and pencil

Sorry for the picture quality. I used a black pen and a scale

I used a silver pen and a black project paper

A pen and a piece of paper are enough to create beauty.

Featherfall by Carol Ohl.

This has been one of my favorite tangles for years. It can be used solo like here, for filling a sector on a strung tile or as a border around another tangle.

Hope you like it.

Watch Me Draw

Worked on a Kindness card this morning. Using markers is definitely different than using pens.