Zentangle For Nick and Jes Days 1-4

Day One - J&N in pencil

I started another large tangle - 14x17 - This one is for my nephew and his wife I started by creating their initials with my Cricut® J&N. For this one I thought that I would put them in the upper Right hand corner of the image. It's difficult to see it in this picture, I traced the cut out in pencil. Then I drew grid lines around the page.  After I got all done with that I decided I didn't like the way the grids were so I tossed that one and started over.  I liked my second attempt so I stared drawing the tangles - I was NOT pleased with the result of those tangles so I tossed that one and started all over again. You know what they say... Threes a Charm, I think I'll keep this one.

Day two

This is what I accomplished on my second night of drawing. As this is being done in my evenings after work, working-out and then dinner and clean-up I didn't get as much done as I would have liked.

Full Right side of Image

This was a good weekend for drawing!  I worked on my drawing a bunch during the weekend - that is between all the other "stuff" that I had going on. The image to the left is of the right side of the drawing.  The images below are close-ups of this side of the page.

Close-up of the right side.

Basically that is what I worked on this past weekend.

My first attempt at a LARGE Zentangle

I really wanted to put a tangle on the wall in our home, but my husband wasn't so sure that would be a great idea - What if we decided we didn't like it?!? So we set on a compromise - I would create something on large paper and we can see how we like it on the wall - it won't be exactly the same but I'll have something on the wall.

So...the other night I found a 14" x 17" pad and drew a string and started tangling. I usually do my tangles on 3.5" x 2.5" ATC cards - I've done a few 5x7 but mostly they are small.

The rest of the pictures are close up images of what I have done so far - in three nights.  This first one is a close up of the entire image

The first thing that I drew was the string - I did that in pencil. Then the two large striped "tubes" for lack of a better name.

I worked on some of the background and then decided I really wanted to create a scroll - I've been working on figuring out how for a while and I think I finally figured it out - now if I can do it again that will be another issue. ;-)

I like what I have done so far.  I have a long way to go but I love the process.

Yes I think I did it pretty well!

Let me know what you think.