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

Challenge #2 – Two Pencil String

Challenge #3 – Eyes Wide Shut 

Here is the blind string.

 Here is the finished zentangle.

Challenge #4 – Starry Eyed Surprise

Challenge #5 – Orbs

Challenge #6 – Ixorus

Challenge #7 – Breathe

Challenge #8 – Hearts for Artoo – (Use two previous challenges to create a heart)

I used stars from Challenge #4 and Ixorus from Challenge #6.

Challenge #9 – New Tangle: Artoo

Challenge #10 – The Space Between: Exploring white space

I am the Diva hosts weekly zentangle challenges.  This is my first challenge.  I decided to do the challenge with the standard sized tile of 3.5 inches.  I still don’t have good pens so I had to use an ultra fine point sharpie.  I had ordered a set of Sakura pigma micron pens but the seller cancelled the order today.  So I plan to see if I can find them in a store around here.  Would an arts and crafts store have them?

I don’t like my tiles for the challenge but since I only found the site yesterday and the challenge ends Saturday night I don’t have time to re-do them.  These are my 2nd and 3rd zentangles.