The tangled beginnings

I have been playing for the last few days with zentangle.  I started out wanting to find some more creative relaxation techniques for my students.  I am finding that I am really enjoying it myself and becoming rather addicted.  Here is my tangled world so far:


Chaos

This was my first attempt.  This seemed more of a mess than anything to me.  There are several tangles used and several things I just made up to fill some space and let my mind wander during the boring meeting I was in (oops... did I just admit that?)  Actual tangles used: Huggins, Eylet & Ribbon, Ixorus, Vortex, Hibred, and Cartoosh.


Starfish

I had so much fun working on my tangle during the day that I wanted to do more when I got home that evening.  I wanted to try working inside a shape for my next attempt.  After I had finished drawing, Andrew said that I should try coloring it in.  This was the result.  Tangles used are Huggins, Ennies, Bluebonnets, Blooming-Butter, Ahh and Cartoosh.


Northern Dreams

So like I said I was WAY into the tangling that day.  After I had completed Starfish, I took the boys outside because man are their biological clocks accurate.  As I stood out there I couldn't help but notice the aurora cause it was covering the WHOLE sky!  I was seeing tangles as I watched the aurora so I decided to continue the tangling madness.  Tangles: Hurry, Cadent, Meer, XYP, and one I like to call Easter.


Flower Explosion

This one started while I was monitoring testing the next day.  I began by trying my hand at the Opus tangle and thought it looked more like a flower then what I originally intended so I went with it.  I wanted to make it look like the sky above so I used Paradox to look somewhat like the Milky Way.  Other tangles used were Hibred, Fife, Munchin, and Sez.


Just Lines

This final one I did last night.  I started wanting to do something with my initial.  I like the look of Hollibaugh behind it and decided I needed something less rigid to fill the J so I turned to Amoeba.  From there the rest was a result of random number generation.  Other tangles that wound up in this tangling: Heartrope, Gingham, Stained Glass, Bandola, and Dekore.  

So this is just the beginning.  Let's see where the tangles lead to next...