Keeping your eye on me

I know a few of you drop by every now & then to see what I have been up to, so I have added two more pages from my Zentangle moleskine for you to look at.

Simple Pleasures

A couple more pages from my Moleskine. The first set of tangled Inchies are standard black & white.

They are rather dramatic in just black & white, but I find them quite harsh on the eye. I think adding a little colour makes them more interesting to look at, so inspired by the beautiful evening sky, for the next page I added a little sky blue pink.

The watercolour wash background was created before the inchies were filled in, as at this stage I was waiting for my Sakura Pigma Micron drawing pens to arrive.

Once dried, I sketched my inchie borders.

Then I started to play. It's amazing how you can lose track of time doing something so simple. I don't like some of the completed inchies, but that is not the objective here. It is more about developing pen control, relaxing & letting the ink flow.

I was very pleased with the result & may still use this method even though I now have my waterproof pens.

Add a little colour ...

Remember my alphabet doodles?

I wanted to add a little colour ...

Then I found out that my doodling pen was not waterproof ...

Here they are tangled.

Time to buy a Sakura Pigma Micron Pen.

Sketchbook

So you have a blank white page in front of you ... scary right?


To overcome this, I make a grid of inchies.


Then just let the ink flow ...


& start doodling ...


& see where it takes you.


And before you say it, I do know that a couple of letters are missing.

And now for something completely different ...

... a dip into my Zentangle Moleskine.








And a sampler of other doodles.

All cut up

I took a piece of 3x3 inch square mountboard & rounded the corners.

I drew a border & string figure with a pencil, then used a Sharpie pen to go over the pencil drawn string.


On the back, I drew a grid to divide it into 9 squares, numbered them from 1 to 9, then cut them up.


I took each piece to work on individually, rubbing out the pencil lines once each piece was finished.


The pieces were put back together.

In Zentangle speak, this is called an ensemble.

Sharpie Zs

Strange how things come back around.

I purchased a couple of black fine point Sharpie pens in the supermarket this week ... just because ... didn't need a reason.

Then something else happened which prompted me to create Zentangles again.

For the first one, I followed the strict rules, bar one. The size of my z tile should be 3½ inches square, but I made mine 2 inch square, commonly known as a Twinchie. My tile is made from white mountboard.


I draw the grid & string image lightly with a pencil, then picked up my Sharpie to play.


I rounded the corners (as instructed) using a previous unused pair of nail clippers to snip off the sharp edges & smoothed them with my craft emery board.

The process of rounding off the corners & the fact that I was using a permanent ink pen, draw me into picking up a domino & away I went ...



I really need a ultra fine point to work on small pieces like this ... I need to find my stash of blank drinks coasters ... now where did I put them?

Zs are perfect for holiday crafting, as all you need to take with you are some blank tiles, a pencil, eraser (to rub away the grid lines) & a pen.

A Skinny Zentangle

A skinny is 3" x 5" in dimension and a zentangle is an abstract drawing, well ok then, a doodle.

This is my first official zentangle, although you will find many more throughout my notebooks, diaries and especially my puzzle books.

I have used mountboard as the base and it is drawn using both ends of my Emboss Dual Pen by Tsukineko.