Zentangle spinner

This year's Twelve Days of Zentangle was a project to create a tangle spinner. I got the Project Pack #4 from Zentangle, but it can be done on other surfaces, and the videos can be followed in any order. The twelve days video series begins here.

My project pack contained Light Olive and Light Blue water-soluable pencils. There are a lot of colors available so it's a surprise what you receive!

The project pack contains two papers, two plastic spinners,
two colored pencils, a 01 black pen, a pencil, and tortillon,
and a watercolor brush.

I wanted my tangles to be black and white so I put color in other areas.

I wanted to include mainly tangles that I really like but sometimes forget.

The alphabet ring immediately made me think of doing tangles beginning with those letters, so that's how I proceeded, rather than wedge by wedge. This worked for most of the spinner but towards the end there were tangles I wanted to include but no letter-appropriate space, so it's not strictly alphabetical.

As "no surface is safe" the corners are tangled, too. There's gold ink to two of the rings, and one totally messed up section that I left alone because there are no mistakes. I didn't do shading until all the ink drawing was done. I finished by painting the surface with matte acrylic varnish. Here's my completed spinner: