Inktober Tangles 2024
I love being part of the Inktober Tangles community every year. Stephanie Jennifer provides a wonderful document with her lovely artwork and tangle prompts for the month of October. Stephanie is a Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT) from seminar 21 who lives in Singapore. You may have seen or heard about her @havepen_withdraw.
The handout has tangle prompts with links to the original authors’ post with steps for drawing each pattern. She also includes a drawing of her own, a Facebook page for sharing our drawings and a hashtag to follow: #InktoberTangles2024.
Inktober Setup
This year I wanted to work with a spiral shape (al la Printemps) and color seemed in line with what I am doing with mixed media these days. I sketched out a large spiral on an 8x10” page of watercolor weight paper. The spiral needed to be wide enough to accommodate space for tangle patterns. In the end, I realized that I could really use more space for tangle, color and shading.
Inktober 2024 - Days 1-6
This first week of Inktober Tangles included a lovely mix of tangles. Ambler by Zentangle Inc., Maryshel by Alena Light, Amplion by Nina Dreher-Goeddertz, Feist by Stephanie Jennifer, Heart Nouveau by Romi Marks, and S Bahn by Midori Furuhashi.
Inktober 2024 - Days 7-12
This week included Zander by Zentangle Inc., ConneSSess by Diana Schreur, Winterli by Ute Andresen, Sweet Pea by Yoko Kageyama (love this tangle!), NoFomo by Amy Broady, and Xs by Tomas Oadros. What a great week!
Inkotber 2024 - Days 13-18
The third week of Inktober brought more great tangles. Some of these were new to me and some of them really deserved more space on my page. Puyang by Zentangle Inc., Caserene by Susan Yeo, Tofube by Damy, Sorry by Heidi Kay, Veerap by Debbie Raen, and Halofoil by Ildica Boyd.
Inktober 2024 - Days 19-24
Drama tangles, flowers and knot-like patterns dominated this week. Bunzo by Zentangle., Gilgo by Danielle DePalma-Mabanta, Maggie May by Dolly Bolen, Casinoda by Theresa FeBler, Bugz by Danielle DeRome, Jessica’s Heart by Randi Jameson.
Inktober 2024 - Day 25-31
This is the last set of tangles for Inktober this year and I was sad to be finished with this great process. Nipa by Zentangle Inc., 24711 by Debbie New, Worthwhile by Nidhi Prakash, Flowder by Hilde van Ginhoven, CDJoy by YuRu Chen, Narfello Hearts by Lynn Mead, Swarm by Zentangle Inc.
In Conclusion
This was another wonderful Inktober year with new tangles and old favorites. It’s inevitable that some tangles seem so familiar that they flow from my pen and others are a little bit of a struggle. We each have our own art leanings such as liking grid vs. organic tangles.
I always enjoy Inktober and will look forward to joining in again next year.
Have a great art filled day!
Nancy