Sunday, September 8, 2013

Dare # 72 and Quib, the New Zentangle

Well, Erin at the Bright Owl really handed us a difficult assignment this week. We tanglers tend to use very fine pens, meaning thin point, for our most delicate work. Occasionally, we might use a pen with a thicker point to do large fill-in areas. This week, we were to choose our "fatty" pen and do absolutely everything with that one pen. All I could find in my studio (that could be a page and a half on its own LOL) was a .6mm = pretty chunky. It does make you think of what kind of patterns would work on the template. I chose Bales, Betweed, and Mysteria:
I also belong to a group of great tanglers who meet once a month to push each other to grow in our art. We did some flower tangles and then worked on the new tangle, Quid:




Mine is the full color one.






Mine is the top right one. I have some excellent roll models in my group. They all do such beautiful work.


16 comments:

  1. Nice tiles. And the zendala is great to. I think I have missinterpreted the challenge. I thought you could only use one tip, not that it had to be the fattest one. So I just took my fineliner and did the zendala.

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    1. Thanks. I do think you are correct though. I just didn't see much of a challenge, for me anyway, to use a finer tip than usual. Using a bigger one was more of a stretch for me.

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  2. Nice job on the challenge. The way you used the tangles in the template turned out well.

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    1. Thank you, Donald. I think bales and the beads or pearls worked okay with a fatter pen. I didn't really like working that way too much though.

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  3. Nice zendala and the other tiles are fun, too!

    Happy tangling,

    Jacque Solomon
    www.tanglebright.com

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    1. Thanks for stopping by and for leaving your kind comments, Jacque!

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  4. Great zendala! It has a quite clear and straight-line compositon! I like it very much! All the other tile are lovely, too!

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    1. Thanks Lonetta. Couldn't get too fancy with this one right?

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  5. Very nice work, Jean! RE Didisch comment: I didn't even notice we were to use one pen thickness! I just did my usual full colour work. I don't think I'd have posted anything had I seen the restriction.Maybe I'll try one.........

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    1. HAHA Faith, I have failed to read EVERYTHING she says too on occasion. I just get so happy to jump into a new one and then, after I have finished, well, surprise. Thank goodness there are no tangle police :)

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  6. Love all your tangles and think you did an amazing job with this week's Zendala Dare!!!!

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    1. Thanks, Debbie. I don't think it is anything I will do again on purpose any time soon though :)

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  7. Your zendala is beautiful Jean ans so are the other pieces. Great to come toghether from time to time.

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    1. Always a treat to see your name pop up in the comments, Annemarie. Thank you!

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