I first met Zentangles a few years ago at CHA when looking at new publications on the Dover Book stand. My attention was taken, by a lovely young lady, to the newest craze which was Zentangling. Since then I have been fascinated by the many intricate patterns people can make which you find by Googling the word itself. How envious I am of the skills they seem to possess when making these intricate patterns within patterns. A skill I am afraid I do not seem to possess.
However, when Zoe chose to do some Doodling (we have been told we should not refer to them as a Zentangle as that is a registered trademark) I must say I thoroughly enjoyed what I did on an atc. Maybe a new set of pens is what is required so that I can have various thicknesses of lines which I am sure would make life easier than my plodding on with a very fine nib.
Anyway, here is my rendition for this week's challenge over on Just for Fun - a Doodle
Not being familiar with making these I decided to start off with a rubber stamp and so I used an image of a face which I thought had the possibility of my building some interesting shapes around it. Perhaps I am over ambitious and made too many little pockets for me to decorate - it took me an age! Mind you it was whilst watching tv so the time passed and I did two things at once.
This year at CHA one of the stands had some gorgeous Zentangling on display with coloured pens. The whole world is against me at the moment - well cyber world anyhow - I have lost one of my Yahoo Groups in Outlook and am devastated that my whole album of photographs from my American trip earlier this year has disappeared. I would have loved to have shown you the work - and maybe replicated some of it myself. Ah well.
Will I do another? Watch this space.
