Laura of I am The Diva came up with a pattern called Artoo for us to use for this challenge:

For this week’s zentangle challenge, we had a time limit.  We were to draw for 15 minutes.  I thought of the time thing, and drew a crazy clock with an extra hour on it:

In this challenge, we were to draw a heart using two patterns from previous challenges.  I chose to use stars & Ixorus:

This was a bit difficult for me  – to convey “breathe” in zentangle:

Kind of boring…

Still catching up …  Laura of I Am The Diva provided us with a tangle pattern by Rick and Maria of Zentangle called Ixorus.  We were to use this pattern for this challenge: 

It was nice to actually get a pattern to work with.  Even though I have only been zentangling for a few days, I am already at the point where I need new pattern ideas.

This challenge is to create a traditionla zentangle tile using the new tangle named Mooka.  Mooka was designed by Rick and Maria of Zentangle, and inspired by the artwork of Alphonse Mucha.  I am an admirer of his work, and here are some examples:

And here is my zentangle:

Ok, you are probably wondering how they relate;  just go to Zentangle and see how they came up with this design.  My execution could probably have been better :-).

This is another challenge I liked – drawing circles is kind of therapeutic:

I really liked this challenge for some reason – drawing star tangles:

Challenge #3 was to start the tangle by closing your eyes, and drawing the initial string:

Challenge #2 was to start the tangle with a two pencil string – putting two pencils together and drawing a scribble.  Here is my tangle:

My initial strings ended up looking like a cursive “S”.

Here is challenge #1 in my effort  to “catch up” –  the theme was “Simplicity”.  I just went and started drawing and this is the result:

When I showed DH my efforts, I got the same look I got over 20 years ago when I showed him my cross stiching projects.  He just doesn’t get it :-).