One Zentangle a Day

great water-soluble pencils that become permanent when dry.
    There are a variety of things you can do with your Zendalas once you are done. You can scan one and reduce it in size, print it, cut it out, and glue it on the front of a blank greeting card. You can also take several Zendalas, scan them, reduce them to a small size, and print them on round sticker sheets you can buy at a stationery store.
    Zendalas look great on t-shirts. You can upload one of your designs to an online service, which can put your designs on T-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more.
    Sometimes, you can extend the template itself. If you look at the narrow petals around the outside, they are in pairs in the template, but in the tangles version, Geneviève added a third petal to the design.

CHAPTER 6: CREATING THE REST OF YOUR ZENTANGLE JOURNEY

    My first tangled tile on official Zentangle tiles.
    BY NOW SOME OF YOU have found a place for this meditative art form in your daily life. Some of you may see Zentangle as a warm-up tool to put you in the zone before starting to work on a piece of art. Others may find creating a Zentangle tile as a way to kick off their day to a good start. Those with hectic or high-pressured jobs may find the afternoon coffee break is when their brain needs to do a Zentangle tile to refresh.
    And yet others may see this as an art form for self-expression or the sheer enjoyment of the process. Many will find it pops up often in their artwork. I encourage you to find the time to continue on your journey. Get involved with artist trading card (ATC) swaps, artist calls for charity, or artist challenges posted on blogs or other websites.
    The tiles that you have created in the past five chapters are treasured pieces of art; treat them as such. Choose several of your favorites to frame. Art should be displayed. They will inspire you to continue to create each time you see them. You may choose to frame a small mosaic or frame each separately and hang them in a grouping.
    The skills you have acquired do not need to be saved for a tile or sketchbook. There is a pen out there for every surface, so start adorning your world. Your tangles can work for the front of any card. They can make your holiday ornaments unique, change the look of costume jewelry or be made into jewelry, become a new textile pattern, or adorn your dishware. The options are endless.
    This piece was the result of an artist call-out among the Certified Zentangle Teacher’s group. On November 11 at 11 o’clock, CZTs from around the world all tangled on their piece at the same time, creating a tile that honored a “memory” of their choosing.
    Two ATCs by card artist Bette Abdu
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    Card artists: Linda O’Brien, Opie O’Brien, Cris Letourneau, Judy Lehman (three ATCs), Patti Euler (three ATCs), Sandy Bartholomew, Suzanne McNeill, Ellen Gozeling

DAY 36 CREATING ENSEMBLES
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Micron 01 pen
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2B pencil
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sketchbook
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white tile
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four white tiles or four tiles from watercolor paper
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ATCs (optional)
    CHAPTER 5 COVERED HOW TO look for tangles and develop them. Some of the best patterns I find are during the most inconvenient times. When I do not have time to draw the pattern, I pull out my phone and capture the inspiration in a picture to use later in the day when I do have time. A small digital camera would work as well.

Daily Tangles
    Try these patterns. Zander, an official Zentangle, works well to lead the eye from one area to the next and transition between different tonal patterns or into another pattern. The second pattern, Stickers, is a Tangleation and is very airy; it does not take too much imagination to figure out that it came from Poke Root, but it is inspired by the pricker balls that are everywhere in southern Texas.

    Practice the new patterns in your sketchbook. When you feel comfortable with the patterns, use them on your daily Zentangle tile. Use a few of the Tangleations and/or patterns you have created.
    This tile is an example of how overworked a tile can get when we do not stop when we should have.

Ensembles
    Ensembles are traditional to Zentangle and are created by laying several tiles together with the sides touching. The string is then drawn across all of them. A traditional Zentangle ensemble is created using nine tiles placed in a mosaic pattern of three rows of three tiles. Then the string is drawn over the nine tiles. When tangles are placed in the ensemble, the artist must be aware of which areas on the