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The Zentangle® Method, created by Maria Thomas and Rick Roberts, is an easy to learn, fun and relaxing way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns.

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Joey's Weekly Challenge #96

Here in Durham, North Carolina, I am hunkered down in a warm home with electricity and food. We received several inches of mostly ice yesterday, and it's snowing intermittently right now. I just saw the second snow plough of the day zoom by on our normally busy street. I am so grateful for heat and light. Over one hundred thousand North Carolinians are without one or the other, or both. I am thankful for the men and women who risk their lives, leave their families behind and venture out to work for the common good.
Gratitude.
An important theme in the Zentangle® Method. The first, in fact, that we learn. Gratitude for the materials we have, a quiet place, the opportunity to learn, time for ourselves...
I am grateful for Joey and her challenge #96, which I almost forgot about, with all the excitement here! (I get so excited when it snows. I rush from window to window to get the best view!) I had been tangling Chillon--how appropriate!--when I realized I was just doing it to get it done. I stopped, and thought, "One stroke at a time. Appreciate the feel of the ink penetrating the paper and leaving its mark." I thought of the work of several of my Zentangle "heroes", whose lines are always so deliberate and clean. I. Slowed. Down.
What are snow days for, if not for slowing down?
Hope you are safe and warm. Enjoy this cup of cocoa!

 Thanks, as always, for stopping by. Your comments encourage and inspire me.

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8 comments:

  1. IlseJanuary 24, 2016 at 5:18 AM

    Beautiful! Blue shading, love it :-)

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    1. Jennifer SparrowJanuary 25, 2016 at 9:03 AM

      Thank you, Ilse! I now have some Prismacolor pencils and love to shade with them!

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  2. trixie04January 24, 2016 at 12:54 PM

    The blue is fantastic. I like your shading.

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    1. Jennifer SparrowJanuary 25, 2016 at 9:04 AM

      Thank you, Trixie! I enjoy shading with Prismacolors, which blend some easily.

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  3. The Yorkshire TortoiseJanuary 25, 2016 at 12:05 AM

    Love how you put the Chillon into the Chillon on the right. You are so right, I often get carried away and just draw to get it done and forget to go slowly. Glad you are safe and warm, snow can be so exciting and yet so dangerous.

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    1. Jennifer SparrowJanuary 25, 2016 at 9:05 AM

      Thank you, YT! That's one of the many gifts of Zentangle! One stroke at a time!

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  4. JoeyJanuary 25, 2016 at 5:11 PM

    Congrats on the new Prismacolors, I love my set, don't know how I managed without them! Is that Copenhagen Blue? As snow is so rare in our parts I too get excited and run from window to window! So glad that you are able to stay safe and warm indoors and tangle with us!
    ~ joey ~

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    1. Jennifer SparrowJanuary 30, 2016 at 10:50 AM

      Thank you, Joey! It's Bleu Indigo. Copenhagen Blue sounds lovely!

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