I have too many projects in tangling and in my blog and did not keep up to date with tangling meetings.
I am starting from the last meeting since it is "fresher" in my mind. We had it yesterday!
Before the meeting was called Zentangle Together, but since I did not receive the go from Zentangle Head Quarters to keep the naming Zentangle in my products and as a CZT I am supposed to follow rules, I changed the naming. When I receive feedback I will check what to do next. Maybe everybody likes the name Tangle Together more! I have the feeling it could be a bit more difficult to find the event and the group by avoiding the wording Zentangle, but, it's like that. I already have somebody coming around and that makes me happy!
I started and finished with drawing paradox on this map, done with the water I used to clean my glass fountain pen. The color is very delicate, I will probably reinforce it somehow.
Paradox.
And this is the main piece for the day.
We started with Aquafleur, that seems more difficult than it is.
I explained how to draw Molygon, the moon-shaped tangle, and how to fill it in different ways, the most common from Maria but also some of my favourites, I explained how to use Molygon to fill space. By growing some more Molygon on a corner, on a side, and taking all the space by auraing the previous Molygon. Then I did more or less the same with Sunlight, the leafy tangle on the right. I explained how to grow it organically and add leaves in the desired direction to fill some more space.
On the left you can see a reverted Trikl... Yes, I did not follow exactly the step out, but I like my messed up version. It fits perfectly there! I also managed to do the right steps in the middle.
I used Oolong to fill some space in the bottom. Then I thought what to use for the rest of the free space all over... and I tangled there Oolong or some Oolong elements.
No shading or coloring so far, I will think about it soon!
Antidots, Sez, Ravel, Printemps, Flux, Cogwheel, Tipple. 30 January 2026
Fescu, Flux. 30 Janury 2026
And something new here as well. I will use a Japanese word I am pretty bound with, but I will explain the story if I ever make it to add this pattern. I cannot tangle colored tiles and go on with my tea bag envelope production and be in par with everything. :D
I know I am a bit crazy. And this reflects also in my tangling.
Why am I crazy this time?
Well, I tangled small tiles to fill the pages in my album. Without following tutorials. Often monotangles.
Here I went with some colors that I know that work together. Light blue and brown.
Oolong. 7 March 2026
Here I first drew with watercolor felt tip pens the greenish border and dots in the background, then watered it, then drew mooka and tipple on top, then added some purple (purple? I would say porpora in Italian).
Mooka, Tipple. 7 March 2026
I do not remember if I used felt tip pens or watercolor on the background. I think felt tip pens. And then Paradox.
I wanted to draw paradox on paradox with white gel and started in one section. The ink was not dry, and the paper suboptimal, everything was messed up. I blended everything together, made the section grey and drew tipple on top.
Paradox, Tipple. 7 March 2026
Here as well, I messed everything up with ink that did not stick to the paper with shading, so... I changed everything.
Srose, Corfo, Florz.
Had to draw tipple on top.
And drew over the srose flowers.
And the same tile with daylight. There are less funny reflexes.
Srose, Corfo, Tipple. 8 March 2026
Here I am playing with analogue colours. Yes, thanks to a couple of fellow attendants of the CZT EU 9 seminar, Susi and Nirali, I have been starting taking into account the color wheel theory instead of only watching nice palettes like the ones in Figma and Kids Pattern, or asking chatgpt. Does the tangle in the centre have a name? It is so simple it must have one.
Ehm, I forgot some orbs in the lower leaf.
Half Noom, Paradox, Sez. 8 March 2026
Here without even noticing I ended up playing with triad colors. I do not have that many colored Pigma Microns, so my choices there are limited!
The same tile over day.
Toodles. 8 March 2026
Ok, here I was cheating a bit, and not creating a tile to fill spaces, since it is a 9x9 cm tile. To be honest, I saw many color schemes I like in instagram from tiles with the tag #tinpokeleaf from an Henrike Bratz intensive course on Pokeleaf. This tile does not exactly use any of the coloring there, but many tiles were mixing white charcoal hard with other charcoal pencils.
And the same tile with daylight! The colors are a bit different.
Swash. 8 March 2026
And, to fill the last hole, I did a not so coloured grey tile. I think I added somehow some colors but they faded away. Maybe I will add colors when I feel inspired.
Fescu. 8 March 2026
Oh, and I forgot this one! Look where I put it! :D
8 March 2026
I also drew a couple of backgrounds on A6 watercolor paper, but will talk more about them when I tangle there!
Last but not least, the pages! I wrote nothing there, I have to decide what to write exactly. Or draw! If you have any suggestions, let me know!
I seldom tangle on small sizes, this thing of filling space forces me to do it, and try stuff in a short time. I think it is pretty useful when you want to try stuff! And that is my phase with coloring!
Next time I should probably have again some tutorials!
Among other Zentangle artists, they suggested me to check the tutorials from Zen Linea, to improve at coloring.
This is an easy tile, with a similar palette to Project 28. I did some tiles for it, but not all of them. Yet. it is good to do easy stuff for coloring. I have to build my taste. We know I tend to overcomplicate everything. Something simple is probably very much needed.
Belle, Tipple. 5 March 2026
Not so many colors here, but it was in the same playlist, and in the end I liked the idea of dewding patterns, I also did it with other leaves in some of my tea bag envelopes!
Dewd, Fescu, Pokeroot, Pokeleaf, Ciottoli. 6 March 2026
On the Ubahn on the way to the Ian Paice and Purpendicular concert I started tangling over one of the stains in my travel sketchbook. At home I added some colors, since I do not bring all pens on me all the time!
Is it also coloring? Somehow, even if I did not follow a tutorial, right? In the end, if I learn to be subtle in colors, it could be a good thing. Remember? I have a childish taste!
It is funny, since the stain looks a bit like a chinese dragon. Right period, we are close to the beginning of the year,
Different lighting and with the chop, but it is difficult to spot!
Gelijoy, Srose, Flux. 6 March 2026
Another tile I did without tutorial was also a map tangle. I actually did the stains with the water where I cleaned my glass pen, and also the water used to clean the brushes after painting the poppies on the black tile from the first chapter of the series. You almost do not see the white-purple stains.
Not a special tile, but still working on colors, somehow, right?
Printemps, Manair. 6 March 2026
And another tutorial, this one from Emiko Kaneko, another CZT that they suggested me for the taste for colors!
My blue is brighter.
I used hairspray to fix the color and the white disappeared.
So I put the white again. We will see if it fades or not.
At least it has not faded in the morning. And pictures are nicer with daylight!
Mooka, Flux. 7 March 2026
Does it make sense to keep more versions of the same tile with different lighting? Does it disturb you? Let me know!
And another tutorial, this one from Yuko Takamasu. I like listening to Japanese tutorials, even if I get 30 or 40% of what they say. More gems!
And also here, I decided to add the daylight version. You can see the corners, it is already in my folder... I hope they do not bother!
Ratoon, Sez, Crescent Moon, Pepper. 7 March 2026
And, just for fun, the first page of my big folder where I am putting tiles. I will have to write something, right? I have ideas on how to store the tiles that I tangle on both sides. Stay tuned!
I want to improve my coloring taste and skills. I decided to follow videos from Eva Wu to make some coloured tiles.
Fun thing, while looking for her I found a video by ShanDrawArt, but discovered it was not Eva Wu only after my tile was done. I know, I have not tangled a tile from Eva Wu yet. Shame on me!
The first I did was a study on gems. In the first gem I did not put white only on the bottom. Several gems would have come better with black on top instead of a color of a similar hue. But I like the result of my tile anyways! It could be a childish tile, it is not indeed helping me in improving my taste in colors, but at least I improved at gems, so far I tangled only one at my CZT seminar.
Could it be that the coloring is a bit more childish than I expected since it is not a video from Eva Wu?
Another thing I noticed: the tiles I prepared are made of a rather smooth paper, and also normal graphite should rather be blended with a stomp than with a tortillon to have a bit more control over it, since it blends so much all over with the lightest touch.
I also destroyed the fine tip of a white marker, I thought it was one to press if it did not write, like the Poscas. It fell in miserably. Fortunately the same pen had also a brush point on the other side. :D
You can see the tile with some of the gems without the charcoal pencils shading on top first, and the final result afterwards.
And here the video, in case you want to try the tile yourself!
Then I followed this video by Eva Wu.
I like a lot her results. Myself, I got my metallic watercolors, and they looked pretty different on black as they did on white. Most of them also went out of their space, since I had no precise color scheme in mind I simply got some of the colors out of their place.
The colors are not as vivid as the ones in Eva Wu video, so I decided to use colored gel pens instead of only the white one. I started with yellow, then I was wondering what to do.
And used several colors.
Over night I added some more colored pencils and blended them. The light is not natural in both cases, I think I will take a pic tomorrow morning as well! Also to see if I should add something.
And this is the same tile in the morning. And yet without chop. It means I have to take another pic! :D
And the version with the chop. Since this tile is so different with different lighting, I am keeping all versions! Please forgive me!
3 March 2026
I wonder if this poppy flower is a tangle pattern!
Then, instead of a video from Shie Naritomi, I ended up with a video using Yumemi, one of my favourite patterns, created by Shie.
The tile is probably nothing mindblowing, but I like its simplicity. I also have to learn to use colors in a simple way, to be able to do it decently also on my own. I had to pass again the white pencil, and after using the pencils I passed all black lines with a pen slightly larger.
The same tile, but the lighting over the day is different! The contrast is better
Yumemi, Diva Dance. 3 March 2026
And finally I followed a tutorial by Shie, but did everything in a different way!
I did not like the hearts, so I went on with Corfo and Gelijoy, that I like very much together.
I used a tile made with a paper that possibly would not have handled well water, and already used charcoal pencils and not watercolor pencils, so the result is very different. Yet I liked a lot to mix together pencils with different colors. It gives a sense of realism to the leaf colors in my opinion.
But what this tile really miss is depth. I did not feel confident to shade over the charcoal pencil, I think I could have messed everything. Same for adding more lines with pen. Maybe I will do another time a similar tile and will play better with the charcoal pencil mix.
Winterli, Corfo, Gelijoy, Flux, Shattuck, Fescu. 4 March 2026
And after thinking a lot, I realized that the tile from Eva uses a flower that could possibly be seen as a Winterli variation.
