I first came across this design when I wrote a poem a couple of years back titled “The Volcano on the Inside”. My neice who has her own art blog lol was working on this …
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Straight From My Art – Workshop 5 – Delft Square Zentangle
With my sisters getting more and more comfortable with zentangling and art, I knew I had to up the ante and find something that would be challenging as well as different from the kind of …
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Straight From My Art – Bride Zentangle
A few months back there was a trend of bridal zentangles on Pinterest. With the intricate jewellery that an Indian bride wears, it is the perfect medium to get into a detailed design of repetitive …
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Straight From My Art – Workshop 4 – Peacock Zentangle
Soon after our butterfly zentangle, my sister Bala came across this video on YouTube and wanted to attempt the peacock zentangle. It was intricate and had a lot of detail and we all welcomed the …
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Straight From My Art – Workshop 3 – Butterfly Zentangle
It’s nearly three months since I have posted anything here. The last one and a half months have been about coping with a few changes in our day-to-day life that happened all at once and …
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Straight From My Art – Zentangle of My Mind
When I finished this one, I felt like my brain was on the paper. With everything going on back home and the many many people I’m worried for, some days my mind and thoughts feel …
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How I Caught the Book Bug from Appa
I came across a post yesterday on social media which said it was World Book Day and that the theme of the year was “share a story”. I am an avid reader of books. In …
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Why Appa Takes Full Credit for my Typing Speed
It was the early 90s. Computers and IT as a career had just begun to make an appearance in the Indian career scene. I was pursuing a degree in Commerce and it seemed to make …
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Straight From My Art – Workshop 2 – Lotus Mandala
Our second family zentangle workshop included all four of my sisters, two neices and a cousin sister. It was an absolutely amazing workshop spread over two of our weekly calls. The first week we drew …
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Blood Diamond
Authors note: Published on World Kidney Day! I was born in 2010. Or you could say I was re-born in 2010. This new lease of life was possible only because of my sister Lakshmi. But …