Tangled Mushrooms

Day 10 of #inktober2016

Zentangle, I never heard of this until about 2 years ago, had no clue what it was but I loved it.

Of course I wanted to find out more so I looked it up and found that it was created as a form of therapy. You are not to use an eraser, at first I thought, that is absolutely crazy, I have to have my eraser, what if I mess up? but what this teaches you is, don't throw out something you are working on just because the line goes in the wrong spot, work with it and make it work for you.

Happy Inking my Friends

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