Beyond the basics Zentangle

I had some lovely ladies join me last night for a Beyond the Basics Zentangle class.
Here are some of their efforts!

Dew drops, printemps with sparkles and BrrrSt which is an exclusive tangle. Taught for the very first time!

Fandango, with some pokeroot, pokeleaf and auras.

Huggins with patterns!

And I also worked on some more pieces for my Buffalo love series.

Buffalo series

Buffalo Love

Hometown Pride

I've been working on a very cool skyline project for a while. I have over 100 cities I'm creating skylines for but right now I'm working on a series for my hometown.

Buffalo for my BuffaloLove Zentangle series

I love how these come together.
Here was the beginning wip pic of this one

If you are wondering about the skylines, you might remember this one (this was just a work in progress shot.

So that's one of the things I'm working on this week!

Hope you're having a good one!

Home Sweet Home... Buffalo, NY

I complain a lot lately about my 9 billion tons of snow and how it snows so long here, and I joke that I've been to a huge % of the world and yet still ended up back here, but there's a reason.
Buffalo is an AMAZING place to live, the people are friendly, there's a ton of culture, history and art as well as some of the prettiest summers anywhere.
Plus you know... Niagara Falls! (Which I almost never go to unless I have company in from out of town, you really DO take things for granted)

But Buffalo is a special kind of place. I've had lots of ideas of things to do to commemorate my hometown for a long time but it never felt quite right, until recently I came up with a plan.
Here is the first in that series.

Buffalo, NY  #buffalolove

I like this a lot, I plan to do a series of originals for Buffalo as well as skylines from other places for my shop.  I'll do originals and prints as well as notecards, which are things people have been asking for.

It was so much fun to do!

Now to get started on the next skyline!

What are you doing today?

Concept sketches

In the middle it turned into a reindeer somehow

When I get a new idea for my shop I usually do an initial sketch. Usually the final project ends up NOTHING like what that initial sketch looked like.
I though it might be fun to share with you my first initial sketches of something that will eventually end up as cards for my shop.
I want some Buffalo-centric items in my shop because living in Western NY there's a lot of local pride, plus people that move away tend to be nostalgic.
I just don't find Buffalo all that cute though, so that was a strauggle for me.

Kind of looks like a demented yak right?

Him I like. 

Obviously, not done, but a pretty good base.
And now I don't need to move to like Seahorse NY or anything. Although someplace seahorse or starfish like with a beach sounds LOVELY after all this cold and snow.
Ew snow.
Is it spring yet?
Spring is so beautiful. I can't wait for spring!

Beautiful and Beyond!

That's what it's all about, isn't it? There's so many beautiful patterns to inspire tangles. And when you tangle, you not only create something beautiful . . . "beyond" that, I feel great . . . and that's beyond beautiful!

Hope your day is great!