Ooooo! Ahhhh!

Today I want to share a few things that I find inspiring, in a zentangle sort of way. Enjoy!

This picture was sent to me by a friend and Zentangle student. I don't know where she saw it.

For a whole different (read: tangley) take on  

anatomical drawings 

you must check out this posting from Alex Konahin, 

an artist in the Netherlands.

I'm still enthralled by Ernst Haeckel's renderings of radiolaria.
Check out this earlier post of mine.

Feast on some wonderful, black-and-white, 

tangley mandalas 

on Jane Snedden Peever's blog Dream It Then Create It. 

She hasn't posted for well over a year and but the post history is a delight.

And finally, just for fun, enjoy this dance video.
(With thanks to CZT MaryAnn Scheblein-Dawson for sending it.)

Notice how one pair of tights is shared between two dancers, 

so each person has one black leg and one white one. :) 

Brilliant!

Radiolaria

Nope. Nothing to do with radios. Radiolaria are ancient, single-celled, marine organisms. There are 5000 species and each one builds its own unique style of protective 'shell'. There is an amazing array of configurations. Many are round and are fabulous mandalas. Others seem like nature creating 3D strings and patterns.

Go here to see a wonderful eight minute trailer for the film Proteus, a documentary concerning the life, work, and philosophy of Ernst Haeckel, a 19th century naturalist who documented 4000 of the 5000 species of radiolaria. The film uses many of his detailed engravings. The trailer shows a great many of these images. They zip by at lightning speed, but it's a good show. See more of his engravings of radiolaria here.

I'm going to borrow this film from my library.