Sometimes I start out on a tile and part of the way through my tangling I realize that I don't like it for some reason. Maybe my hands weren't warmed up enough and my circles look like ovals or my straight lines wiggle. Zentangle(R) isn't about perfection, it's about the experience, but like anything else--a main course for a dinner party--there is a degree of perfection that I want.
So what do I do with those tiles that I abandon?
Sometimes I put them aside and pick them up later, tangling the empty sections or finishing the unfinished sections for the practice of tangling. Sometimes these tiles end up being to my liking.
Other times, I put them aside indefinitely. I might use them to test out my pens to determine if they're getting to the end of their life span (about 32 tiles according to Zentangle founders Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas).
One time I was working on a pre-strung Zendala tile. The inner sections looked good to me but the outer sections didn't. So I used an X-Acto(R) knife to cut out the inner portion, tacked it to a blank Zendala tile and tangled the now-empty sections. It was a not altogether successful experiment, but at least I did seek to make something else of it.
I often keep the black tiles to use in coaxing the ink out of a white Sakura Gelly Roll pen, or to wipe off any crusty leftover ink around the point.
And finally, some I just recycle.
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