300!!!

WOW! A huge congratulatory shout out to Laura (the diva) for her 300th Zentangle® challenge! It is wonderful that this momentous occasion also landed during the week that she focuses on a tile to bring awareness to Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day, which is observed during this week. Purple is the color for MSAD so I decided to incorporate it into my tile. Please visit her blog here, to read all about it and her very special son. I've named this tile after Laura's son, Artoo. 

 

Diva Challenge #300 Moebius Syndrome Awareness : "Artoo"

I got back to basics this week with the lovely new book from headquarters... Zentangle Primer. I plan on working through the book along with the Zentangle : Tangled & Journaled Too FaceBook group. Here's my first tile from the book. I am doing all of the exercises in this sketchbook. I think it will be a great reference that I could use in future classes. 

Zentangle Primer : Tile 1 : #zp1tile1

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Adventure ahead...

It's almost time... Two. More. Days... and my daughters and I head off to Boston to explore for a few days and then.... CZT TRAINING IN PROVIDENCE!!!! I am sooooo excited! I can't believe that the time has finally arrived. When I first signed up for the three of us to attend it seemed like it was so far in the future, I blinked my eyes, and now it's here. YAY!

I wish I would have had more time to complete more zentangles and practice, practice, practice. Some how the time escaped me. I hope I am prepared enough...

I absolutely adore Laura Harm's (the diva) site and weekly challenges although I have not completed many of them to date. (Something to work on!) I think I must be an extra slow tangler... well... I finally finished an entry for the Weekly Challenge #169 : String Theory : Circles. (Please don't mention that it was the challenge 3 WEEKS AGO!!!! I know... I know...) I called it "Galaxies," it seems to go hand in hand with exploring and broadening horizons. All just ahead of me...

I have been working (very slowly) through the book, One Zentangle a Day. The Day 14 patterns included Dyon, Keeko, and Chainging. I wanted to include these three patterns in my challenge tile.  As I have been learning new patterns I have taken lots of time to play with variations of the patterns. This has been fun although very time consuming. So now I will just work on the basic tangle patterns to get more "under my belt" before training. In the spirit of this plan here is a page from my little moleskin sketchbook. Besides the Day 14 patterns I have included Yincut, Locar, and Verdigogh all tangles from Day 15. 

My plan when I return from training is to post a LOT more often here with new art! I am so excited to start on a new adventure!