Drawing Meditation

Continuing on today with my drawing meditation (aka Zentangle®).  I began tangling my journal cover last night.  At first I thought I was done.  Here is the first version.

Don't ask me to name all those tangles off the top of my head.  I used a Micron 01 black, graphite, and a white chalk pencil on this.

But I knew I would need to seal the cover somehow.  Otherwise, the two pencils (white and black) would smudge and wear off.  So today I dug out the Mod Podge for Paper, since I wasn't sure what else to use.  Meanwhile, in meditation this morning, it came to me that I wanted to add a tangle (created by me, no name yet) on the right hand part of the cover.  So I did.  Then I put 3 layers of Mod Podge on the cover, waiting at least a half hour between each.  I hope this works!  It seems duller (I used Matte Mod Podge) but then I also photographed it in a different light from yesterday, so it's hard to tell.  Here's the finished journal cover.

Yup, big difference in light as the teal color on the binding of the first photo is accurate and it looks brown here.  I think I like this.

So tonight I finished off the day with this tangle on the theme of "Striping."

Done on a black, pre-strung Zendala tile using Gellyroll 10, Gellyroll 05, white chalk pencil, and graphite.

I also did my usual silent meditation practice today, but I am always reminded, after a long session of tangling, how similar these two meditative practices are.  They are each so calming.  So grateful to have found Zentangle all those years ago, and to the truly wonderful people who teach it as a meditative practice.  Thank you.