Meshing Tangles

To say I'm getting discouraged tangling would be putting it mildly. It took me three days to draw this simple tangle, but at least I tangled something. 

 I frequently get asked how I decide which patterns to use

and how I make them work together.

One of the weekly prompts in my Facebook group Zentangle All Around was to use Julie Beland's tangle gooberz. I love that tangle! I knew that I needed something else to go with it, so I went to Julie's Pinterest board and looked at the other patterns she has designed. Beauchamp is similar in style and the roundness of each tangle works well together. So Beauchamp became my second pattern.

I began by setting up a section of gooberz

to the left-hand side of my page.

Those thickened lines really make this

tangle special!

They also help cover up any boo-boos 

you may make.

Hahaha!

 I needed to segue from one tangle to the next.

The obvious way to blend the two was to keep

the curvature of the line going.

I placed my first line of Beauchamp to the

right of an unfinished gooberz.

 Then I filled in the right-hand side of the page

with more curvy lines that were to

be filled with beauchamp.

 I connected gooberz to beauchamp with those

straight lines and began drawing in the orbs

for the beauchamp design.

 I felt like the drawing needed to begin and end

the same way, so I added one last

line of gooberz out to the right. 

Blackening in those fills between the

beauchamp blobs really made that tangle pop!

And it gave the bit of contrast I needed.

The last thing I did was to tangle up all  those blobs. Any tangle works here for fills. And the more tangles, the better. I love variety.
In a couple months when my eyes are better I will come back and shade this piece. In the interim a couple people mentioned  they wanted to color this one. Go for it! I'd love to see how it turns out!