Zendala Dare #116

Zendala Dare #116

Hello everyone!  I hope your ready for a fantastic Zendala Dare.  

Link to Zendala Dare #116 template

Let me tell you a little about how I create the templates.  I usually create anywhere from 5 to 10 templates at a time, whenever I have a good chunk of time.  Then I upload them on my computer and each week I go through and pick one.  Sometimes I create a batch that has many small spaces, sometimes a group with large spaces, or sometimes they all use similar shapes in different formats.  What I never do however, is create a template with certain tangles in mind.  I don't know if this is intentional or subconscious or maybe a little bit of both but I never have "tangle intent" while I'm creating the templates.  This goes for picking the weekly template as week.  It's nice that it ends up this way because then I can be just as surprised as you by what I create.  Here's what I did this week.

Tangles:  Cruffle, Caral, Portia, Hibred

Here's another view.

I really, really love how this template turned out.  I'll be honest.  I picked this template because the format was simple and the spaces were large.  Since I was already behind getting it up on the blog I figured this would make it easy on me.  I started with the small circles I drew around the edge of the ovals but when I was done with that and the Cruffle they all looked like head dresses and I just knew that they needed faces.  The problem is, I learned to Zentangle because I can't draw anything realistic.  So off to Pinterest I went but to no avail.  Everything was very complicated and much too realistic for this template.  Then I suddenly remembered that I had seen some faces in Sandy Steen Bartholomew's book Yoga for your Brain.  I used the tangles Caral and Portia to create some faces and I couldn't be happier.  I was able to create exactly what I wanted and I think it turned out fantastic.  

What will you create this week?