One Zentangle a Day

sample of a few of the patterns with sparkles added to them. Don’t forget to shade them.
    Samples of previous patterns with sparkles added
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    Glance over the eleven-step process for creating a Zentangle tile and then use the steps to create a Zentangle tile that includes Isochor, Printemps, and any previously learned tangles you choose to use.
    Sample of a Zentangle using the Isochor and Printemps tangles
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    Sample of an ATC with sparkles
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    ARTIST TRADING CARDS, commonly known as ATCs, are 2 1/2 × 3 1/2-inch (6.4 × 8.9 cm) pieces of art. Popular around the world, many artists create them. ATCs are never sold, only traded, and are very collectible. ATC swaps can be found on the Internet or by checking your local art store.
    Create a Zentangle ATC and include some of the patterns you created with sparkles in your sketchbook.

DAY 6 ONE-STROKE PATTERNS
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Micron 01 pen
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pencil
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sketchbook
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tile
    ONE OF THE PREREQUISITES to a design becoming a tangle is that it be completed in a few strokes. Some are completed in one stroke, many in two. Mooka, for example, is a pattern made from start to finish without lifting the pen, thus one stroke. One-stroke patterns are very effective in relaxing into any meditative art form. Quick to learn and easy to remember, one-stroke patterns are quick to find their way onto many tanglers’ favorites list.
    Mooka is fun, creative, and exemplifies a beautiful one-stroke pattern. From the start to finish of this pattern, the pen never leaves the paper
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Daily Tangles
    Try these three tangles. Amaze is a meandering tangle created from a meandering line that never crosses itself. Flux is one stroke repeated several times. The key to success when drawing Mooka is to slow down. Be deliberate in where you are moving the pen.
    Practice each of the tangles in your sketchbook until they feel familiar.

    Diagrams of the Amaze, Mooka, and Flux tangles
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    Review the eleven steps to the Zentangle process and then create a Zentangle tile using Amaze, Mooka, and Flux tangles. Any of the other patterns previously learned may also be used.
    Amaze, being a denser pattern than the other two, creates a background for the lighter toned patterns of Mooka and Flux
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    ON DAY 3, the approach of drawing tangles behind one another was covered. This technique is a great way to transcend from one pattern to the next. On that day, we worked with three patterns that used this concept. Other patterns such as Mooka lend themselves with slight alterations to this process.
    Drawing one tangle behind a different tangle is a great way to change from one pattern into the next. A useful technique for dealing with awkward corners is to move the eye around the piece by changing from a busy tangle to a more open tangle or adding a pattern that will invoke some mystery.
    Sample of the Mooka pattern going over the Tipple pattern
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    Turn to a clean page in your sketchbook and practice this technique with a few of the patterns we have learned.

DAY 7 TANGLEATIONS OPEN UP A PATTERN’S POSSIBILITIES
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Micron 01 pen
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pencil
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sketchbook
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tile
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blank ATC
    TANGLEATIONS ARE CREATED when an original existing tangle is varied or altered. On day 6, we created a Tangleation of Mooka by unfurling it outside of itself and adding Tipple into its negative areas. Alterations can be a change of shape, tonal value, altered foregrounds or backgrounds, or a combination of all of the above. Limited only by the imagination, the possibilities are endless.
    Turn to a clean page in your sketchbook and try creating a few Tangleations from patterns you have learned. Create a step-out diagram for any pattern that might require a reminder to re-create.

    In the sketches, the darker areas of the original patterns for Knights Bridge and Hollibaugh are replaced with two patterns with a lighter tonal value, thus lightening the tonal value of the whole pattern. Tangleations create the opportunity to alter a tangle so that it fits the atmosphere of the Zentangle tile you are creating.
    Tangleations often have different tonal values than the original tangle they are patterned after.
    Using the eleven-step process for creating a Zentangle meditative tile and at least one of the new Tangleations that you drew in your sketchbook, create an ATC.
    The interweaving and shadowing of the Tangleations on this ATC add depth, form, and movement to the piece.
    THE ORIGINAL PATTERN for the vine was Flux. Shading around the