I love drawing patterns in grids ~ also known as fragments and reticula. These Fragment Charts are a wonderful tool to chart your own fragments to use for your drawings. It also offers a perfect way to "practice" your own patterns, as well as others. These are easily downloaded to the computer and then printed out on your favorite paper. I use Bristol Vellum Coverstock 67lb. paper and Exact Index Cardstock 110lb. Our kitchen table is pretty much the center of our home. Everyone gathers there…

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The story behind Molitoriz Some weeks ago my friend Tini and I went to "Museum IJsselstein". We had participated in "Look, Art! In front of the window" on the occasion of the "Week of the Amateur Art" (WAK) and our ZIA's were nominated for one of the ten first prizes. Pity, we did not win.... But we got to know Ton Smulders, aka Molitoriz, who did! Ton creates 3D objects and he told us about his artworks. I was fascinated by a picture from one of his pieces. To me it looked like a Zentangle…

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(2017-02) Curlycrown

After my first 4 zentangles here is the collection of patterns I came up with from things around me and non tangle graphics.

Das grosse Zentangle-Einmaleins

This pattern appeared in one of my tiles about a year ago. At the time, I didn't know anything about what made a good tangle, meaning, could it be repeated easily by someone other than the brain that did it first? If a person has been seeing themselves as an artist all their life, certain patterns may be easy for them (the 'artist') to "draw." I think that's what happened to this one. Drawing a feather just came easy one day, and it ended up in a piece of Zentangle art. One day after an…

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Schnek tangle pattern

"Springkle" is not a published tangle so there is no official step-out available. However, you can see how Maria Thomas draws it in the "Z...

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