Thursday, January 10, 2013

Zentangle Dare #39-ZenDon't

Just this past fall I discovered Zentangles- through Susan McNeill's book Zentangle Basics.
Zentangle-Basics-Suzanne-McNeill

I tried my hand at some of the basic tangles and experimented with them inside of different shapes.
This one I did at Christmas...

 
 I introduced it to my children's art classes as a lesson.




The kids seemed to enjoy it and added alot of unique ideas-especially the younger group.





Just recently, I came across thebrightowl's Zendala Dares

The Bright Owl

and decided to participate in her latest dare, ZenDon't!
She dared us to do things differently than we would normally do with our Zendala. (Zentangle)
- I have normally don't use color, so I tried several colored gel pens along with my black Micron pen.
-I tried some tangles I'd never used and also made up a few which I've never done before...
           One was based on the koru designs from New Zeland  New Zealand-koru 

-I didn't fill in every space and I used the space between two parts of the template.

This is my ZenDon't Zendala....


 
I enjoyed this dare!





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3 comments:

Anne's tangle blog said...

Wow, you enjoyd the Dare and I enjoy looking at your zendala. It is great.
Also grat to see you here!

Sue said...

Nicely done! I'm glad to see a Maori Koru design. The Maori have lots of fabulous patterns that I'm sure would inspire many interesting tangles!

Anoeska said...

Love your zendala dare! And such a good idea to tangle with kids, I can Imaginary they liked it.