IN UNKNOWN REALMS CHAPTER 2

After two days of experimentation, I think this is going to come together.   I think it's going to work.  This is how it looks so far.  There's a lot of tweaking to do and plenty of punching left to get it finished.

One thing I did not say in my post yesterday about the design process for this very small piece:  Without my training in Zentangle®, I would never have been able to draft this design (which is a simple variation of Hanny Waldburger's tangle called "Pearl in Balance" as I mentioned yesterday).  While I'm not claiming it's the world's greatest design, it is something that would have been impossible for me to come up with as recently as 4 years ago.  Zentangle has really enabled me to wade into the Unknown Realms of the design process in a manner that I couldn't even conceive of before learning to tangle.  I am grateful every day for what I am learning in my Zentangle practice.  Not to mention how calming it is.

Time to sleep, but tomorrow I'll be back at this.  Exploring, exploring. 

I've ripped out and re-punched several of these tiny areas four or five times already.

"The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought."  --Pema Chodron

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