Monthly Archives: July 2016

Made for Shade

While shading a tangle in my sketchbook, I realized I grabbed the wrong pencil for the task. As I learned when I first took up drawing, not all pencils are created equal. How the wrong 2B pencil–oh, wait! It’s a … Continue reading

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Blogging Fundamentals: Day 4

This post is part of the blogging fundamentals tutorial offered by WordPress. If you are a regular follower of my blog, you are probably not interested in this path. I will try to remember to title all related posts with … Continue reading

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Tropical Depression

I live in the tropics. It has been a disappointing day. It’s a tropical depression.  Thank goodness tropical depressions don’t last long–just long enough to regret a Zentangle.  It’s Day 24 in One Zentangle a Day. Today’s new tangle patterns … Continue reading

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Writing, Edits, The Internet, and Open Loops

Originally posted on Still Another Writer's Blog:
On another post here, Dr. E. Miller wrote: Putting off editing to another session works for many people. I would end up re-writing or, worse, never getting back to it. Right now,…

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Blogging Fundamentals: Day 3

This post is part of the blogging fundamentals tutorial offered by WordPress. If you are a regular follower of my blog, you are probably not interested in this path. I will try to remember to title all related posts with … Continue reading

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Wheels within Color Wheels

Since late last night, I have been playing around with color families and wash effects on Zentangles, as suggested for Days 22 and 23 in one Zentangle a Day. Per the book’s suggestion, I tried some white Gelly Roll pen … Continue reading

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Blogging Fundamentals: Day 2

For Day 2 of the Blogging Fundamentals tutorial, I am instructed to check out and change my blog title and byline. Continue reading

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Blogging Fundamentals: Day 1

This post is part of the blogging fundamentals tutorial offered by WordPress. If you are a regular follower of my blog, you are probably not interested in this path. I will try to remember to title all related posts with … Continue reading

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Dilemma Dilemma

Moving right along in One Zentangle a Day,  I am at Day 23. Today’s new Zentangle pattern is Kathy’s Dilemma. Instead of a second official or unofficial motif, a vine tangleation of Flux is introduced–except that I have been using … Continue reading

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A Bit of Planning…

Day 22 of One Zentangle a Day, and it only took me three months to get this far! That’s why I write about the book days rather than calendar days. The book week’s chapter deals with color and talks about … Continue reading

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