Rick writes... Maria and I always focused on the simplicity of the Zentangle Method. We often say that if you can write your name, you’ve already “drawn” all of the shapes or strokes you need to create Zentangle art. The basic strokes that we use to make all our tangles are: Dot Straight(ish) line Curved line S-shaped line Orb We now refer to those basic strokes as elemental strokes. This year is the 20th anniversary of the Zentangle Method, so it is a good time to tell the story of how the term icso came about. I remember exactly where...

Today’s world moves quickly. Sometimes, too quickly. We have become accustomed to having the world at our fingertips and immediate satisfaction. We can order something from certain online retailers and it will arrive at our door that very same day. Behind much of what we experience is automation. There are chatbots and AI, robots for warehouses, and sometimes it is very hard to interact with a real person that actually works for the company we are interacting with. Don’t get me wrong – automation and technology have its place and make our lives exponentially easier in many ways. But there...

One of the wonderful things about Zentangle celebrating it's 20th Anniversary is that sometimes we have already written exactly what we want to say. We invite you to revisit this blog from February 2023. Enjoy! --- + --- Maria writes... For as long as I can remember, I believed that I was an artist. If anyone asked what I did, that was my response. I lived and breathed it, saw it, wrote it and lived it. It was a daily comfort, a symbol of the luck that the universe bestowed on me. Well, not the only luck, but you get...