Zentangle Challenges 1-10
I spent most of the weekend catching up on the zentangle challenges hosted by I am the Diva. I had a lot of fun and was able to do 20 challenges. As I have mentioned before I suffer from carpal tunnel on both my hands and I had surgery on the right hand which didn’t make things better so I can’t do too much with it for long periods of time; so eventually my hand was hurting but I was so into doing the zentangles that I hardly realized it. Unfortunately today I am feeling it; so I won’t be doing any for a few days.
I did so many that I have realized I like keeping my zentangles simple. On my next zentangles I plan to try to do some shading.
Below are the first 10 challenges.
Challenge #1 – Simplicity
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FwkWrOF6Suc/TlGp1nsrmbI/AAAAAAAAAwo/A7mvrtmRXJ4/s320/zen4.jpg)
Challenge #2 – Two Pencil String
![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y3w5k2800GA/TlGp11aN4mI/AAAAAAAAAwo/Q5wOU3EjcYo/s320/zen5.jpg)
Challenge #3 – Eyes Wide Shut
Here is the blind string.
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OUFVGN6F0P8/Tklei8_D7EI/AAAAAAAAAfs/9Kukr76jkCM/s320/zen6a.jpg)
Here is the finished zentangle.
![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-W7ajpXqwxck/TlGp1wHN-KI/AAAAAAAAAwo/PDRBTktfT28/s320/zen6.jpg)
Challenge #4 – Starry Eyed Surprise
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fmYnMMjWXEM/TlGp2JvAsEI/AAAAAAAAAwo/H4MmEXIBd2o/s320/zen7.jpg)
Challenge #5 – Orbs
![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WGVSuimW6io/TlGp2P31eQI/AAAAAAAAAwo/kcQv2DWct6g/s320/zen8.jpg)
Challenge #6 – Ixorus
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cv70izP6Ljs/TlGp2RfLogI/AAAAAAAAAwo/jN3F2ptHi1w/s320/zen9.jpg)
Challenge #7 – Breathe
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7vSUPBTZjUc/TlGp2YD6p7I/AAAAAAAAAwo/UlZlglSp8_w/s320/zen10.jpg)
Challenge #8 – Hearts for Artoo – (Use two previous challenges to create a heart)
I used stars from Challenge #4 and Ixorus from Challenge #6.
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dEBoLlK-ikk/TlGp2jePZHI/AAAAAAAAAwo/WGXSGtVINEw/s320/zen11.jpg)
Challenge #9 – New Tangle: Artoo
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TjLX7xb24gc/TlGp2iq-B5I/AAAAAAAAAwo/F-ZHYcQUzUA/s320/zen12.jpg)
Challenge #10 – The Space Between: Exploring white space
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XyakzhqsbpU/TlGp2j_0p6I/AAAAAAAAAwo/GwJHjrllM8k/s320/zen13.jpg)