Test Driving My Wall Book

 My friend Jane gave our art journal group the challenge of stacking.

Stacking tangles,

stacking text,

stacking text and tangles,

stacking colors with any of the above.

Jane showed some examples of stacking,

and in a couple pictures she showed drawings she had made in her wall book.

I thought, I have a wall book that I rarely use.

So I pulled it out and tangled the stacks you see above

 in the page on the right.

It started out as a blank brick wall. 

(This is an actual two-page spread in the book.)

 I started at the bottom and worked my way up.

I love the way it turned out.

Looks like that art could be real graffiti.

(Fourth tangle up from the bottom,

is one I made up for this page.

I'm calling it Box It Up.

I'll post step-outs for it in tomorrow's post.)

In case you wondered, and even if you didn't, hahaha!

from the bottom up, the tangles are:

shattuck, copada, curlz (one I came up with at CZT training,) 

box it up, variation of crescent moon, flying geese, rain, 

curvy variation of shattuck, twing, laced, and footlites.

Here is the wall book, which I have been calling by the 

wrong name for the past couple weeks! 

I got mine at Amazon,

(I mean, really, is there any where else?)

Walls Notebook by Sherwood Forlee.

 I enjoyed that stacking stuff so much I decided to do a second page. 

I decided to go with graffiti circles and tangles that draw the eye to that post rising from top to bottom of the page.

And here is the completed page. 
Tangles from bottom to top: shattuck (yes, I love this one,) puf, shattuck  (see what I mean?), rain, box it up, and flying geese again.
And remember, anywhere you see pink words, that means it's a link.  Click on it and you will be taken to step-outs for that tangle. Cause pink = link. In every picture I draw, I include my chop. My signature. At least I try to. You see it just under this post. My initials with the leaf - for The Creator's Leaf. I don't always date the drawing - on the drawing itself - it's usually on the back. For this page, though, I included it on the front. Can you find it? And my chop? (It's kind of obvious.)
P.S. ~ time for you to try out this whole stacking thing. No rules, except you pile it up. Words, tangles, colors, elements. Whatever media you want to use. It's stacking time!

Bijou. It's What's New in Zentangle®

Bijou. A two inch square tile - commonly known as a twinchie. In the realm of all things zentangle, these are Bijou tiles. Bijou is a little snail that came home from Paris with Rick and Maria several years ago. They named these tiles after Bijou. You can see a drawing of him - or her - on the back of each tile. The nice thing about a twinchie is you can tangle one up in a short amount of time. And as I soon found out - they also handle color very well. These are the first four I tangled.
Frankie is over for a few days so posting may be sporadic until next week. Just so you know. 

Twing-ING

Do you participate in that social media that is Facebook? I'm guessing if you are technically savvy enough to find and follow my blog, you probably savvy Facebook as well. If you go there and search for a group called Square One: Purely Zentangle® you can request membership and be part of the group. The mission, so to speak, of Square One is to go back to the beginning. Back to square one with your zentangle knowledge. Back to the 3 1/2" square white tile. Back to black ink, pencil shading, and no eraser. Back to the way we learned to tangle. 
Each week Chris and Jenny challenge us with one specific tangle to work with. Week one was cadent - I still need to do that one. Weeks two and three were twing and verdigogh. The last two weeks are in my tile above. 
That whole center section is a variation of a new tangle that we - as CZTs - aren't allowed to share step-outs with the public yet. And I tell you that's not a bad thing. Even with the step-outs I couldn't get it right, which is why I am calling that center column a 'variation' of that unknown entity. You see twing waving across the middle - also a variation. I did twing by memory and I forgot a couple lines.  I can't find the step-out for it to save my life! So here is another drawing I did some time ago. Twing is the zig-zagging pattern across the top:

Then I added verdigogh to the center-unnamed-not-official-tanglethatwecannotrelease-yet. (And trust me, it doesn't look anything like this when it's done the step-out way!) Verdigogh is that arm-waving stuff and it's way fun to add to your tangle drawings!
So. Getting back to Square One! You can totally do that and get involved in the fun on Facebook at Square One:Purely Zentangle®. You know you want to!

Happy Fall, Y'All

So I am finally done with all the fall ATCs for the swap. This was a really hard one for me, I had trouble finding my niche. So to speak. I finally just gave up on fall designs, and went with fall colors. I've been looking over some tangles I don't use very often, and noticed that golven and twing are very similar. I like the way they combine in this ATC. This last one is heading out to the United Kingdom. Traveling a long way! Now, on to the brown/black swap! I think I have 15 more of those to do!