As our nation celebrates 235 years of independence, I am celebrating day two of my "Week As Art" at CreateMixedMedia.com. As I promised yesterday, each day this week will feature an up close view of my artwork for the day. I will admit that when I drew this piece, I did not think about the fact that it was representing the 4th of July or I would have included some stars and striped tangles (aka patterns for those of you who are new to Zentangle®). One could interpret the tangles directly behind the number "4" to represent a bomb and

Today is the first day of my interpretation of "The Week as Art" on www.createmixedmedia.com, a website associated with F+W Media. These are the same people responsible for my art book addition (all those Northlight books that I just can't resist). :-D  You can find thumbnail size images of my whole week on the website this week but for those of you who want to get up close and personal with each day, I will be posting a larger size image. The actual size of the pieces are 3 1/2 inches square. The numbers in the calendar Zentangles© are done in