Zentangled Balls

 Hi all,  
Thanks for all the recent comments, some good advice in there and I have decided to take some of that on board and do something light and playful. Some of you may remember a previous post where I was talking about "playing with wood and paint" and this is something that I have really taken too, however having said that I have not gotten very far with anything in particular as I am still finding out what will work and what wont. In the meantime I thought it would be fun to do something with these wooden spheres that I bought at a jumble sale for 50 pence a bag, a very good investment ! From what I can see these are birch wood balls, and for a while at a loss as what to do with them,paint them,draw on them, no Zentangle them. As most of you will know wood is very porous so needs to be sealed and as this was still very experimental I quickly slapped a coat of acrylic varnish on them and proceeded to Zentangle with Sharpies. I could of gessoed them first and then painted but that did not appeal to me as I still wanted to show the wood. Looking closely at the balls I can see where the pen has bled somewhat in places, where I have not applied the varnish properly, but on the whole I was quite pleased with how this one turned out and I will be doing the rest in similar style methinks. Any advice on sealing the wood first with something else other than varnish please leave a comment as this is a bit of an unknown territory to me.