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About DrEMiller

Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT). Home: Sint Maarten. K-12 teacher for 13 years (Special Education for 10 years); Post-secondary educator since 2002; Education consulting since 1995. When teaching, held teaching certificates in K-12 special education, reading specialist; and secondary social studies. Doctorate: Educational Psychology Programmer/analyst for 10 years, including project management and training of corporate execs.

Blogging Fundamentals: Day 2

Posted on July 7, 2016 by DrEMiller

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

Posted on July 7, 2016 by DrEMiller

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

Posted on July 7, 2016 by DrEMiller

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…

Posted on July 6, 2016 by DrEMiller

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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Illusions

Posted on July 6, 2016 by DrEMiller

The topic of today’s lesson in One Zentangle a Day was “repetition creating transformation,” which ultimately results in more optical illusion. It’s The book’s Day 21, the last day of Chapter 3: Geometric and Organic Patterns. Today’s patterns are Rick’s … Continue reading →

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Mini Tiles and Their Uses

Posted on July 5, 2016 by DrEMiller

Such a prosaic title! It’s Day 20 in One Zentangle a Day, and I can’t think of a way to get one of the new patterns to work into a tile.  Ever since the preface to Chapter 2 (Day 8), … Continue reading →

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Clutter

Posted on July 5, 2016 by DrEMiller

The Day 18 topic in One Zentangle a Day was curvilinear geometric patterns, featuring Gneiss, Cadent, and Huggins as the daily tangles. For Day 19, the topic is geometric rectilinear patterns, and features Rain, Cubine, and Beeline. The latter two are … Continue reading →

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Turn 45 Degrees…

Posted on July 4, 2016 by DrEMiller

After botching up several attempts at Day 18 in One Zentangle a Day, I decided to change my perspective. So, I started by turning my tile 45 degrees. Instantly, I got an idea to do something a little different with … Continue reading →

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A Little Novice Discovery

Posted on June 30, 2016 by DrEMiller

Once again, our power went out and I have all doors open to allow for a cross breeze. I guess we’re lucky to be on an island that is not currently undergoing a–well, whatever you call a total absence of … Continue reading →

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Bedraggled

Posted on June 29, 2016 by DrEMiller

At this moment, I feel totally bedraggled. And I think that came out in my Zentangle Inspired Art, or ZIA. Day 17 of One Zentangle a Day gave me three more patterns yesterday, but it wasn’t until today that I thought … Continue reading →

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