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Monday, November 2, 2015

Zentangle® Gourdgeous, Verve, and an Inchie

The Diva Challenge this week is to use the new tangle Gourdgeous. I used a black tile for this and added a bed of 'Nzepple. I used my Slicci pens to tangle, Conte pastels for shading, and a white gel pen for the dotted lines.
The focus tangle for Square One was to use Verve. Since I use Verve so often, I thought I would see what happens when you start with a square instead of a circle. These squares were turned into Cubine. I also ended the shading with squares to balance out the piece.

Every Inchie Monday had a prompt word of "emotion". This was so interesting to research. Tibetan Buddhist psychology believes that there are two types of emotion: one to express and one to control. Sensible. I also read that some emotions are actually cultural! My image is not original, but it really represented the swings of emotion.

Thank you for stopping by. I love reading your comments!
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  1. Joanne FahertyNovember 2, 2015 at 10:32 AM

    Love your square verve and the gourdgeous tile nice colours

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    1. jeanchaneyazNovember 2, 2015 at 10:44 AM

      Thank you very much, Joanne! Fun to play with colors on the black.

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  2. The Yorkshire TortoiseNovember 2, 2015 at 11:12 AM

    Your gourds look great, hard to do on black I would think. I am intrigued by your comments on emotion, especially the cultural aspect, I must read up on it.

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    1. jeanchaneyazNovember 2, 2015 at 11:26 AM

      Thank you. It wasn't hard to do on the black, but check your pens first on the back of your tile. Not all pens will show up on the black. Yes, I wish I had bookmarked the page that talked about emotions in regard to cultural influences. I got so involved in reading all the different kinds of emotion that I failed to do so.

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  3. Ulrike B.November 2, 2015 at 11:26 AM

    very nice, i like your tiles

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  4. MySpecialistNovember 2, 2015 at 12:34 PM

    I tell you, I like that Gurdgeous tangle. Stood out for me as soon as I received news on it. You did an awesome job on this one, in fact, on both tiles. Love the inchie! Please, please have a look here, we think alike at times: http://tagtuesday.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/people_12.html
    P.S. I think emotion is all chemical :D

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    1. jeanchaneyazNovember 2, 2015 at 1:44 PM

      Thanks, Zoe. You are right, we often think similarly. I did look at the tag site last week. It looks like fun, but I am already over my head with three blogs worth of challenges, etc., that I have committed myself to. Maybe someday, I have it bookmarked, as I do love making tags too.

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  5. AnonymousNovember 2, 2015 at 12:41 PM

    Are you using pastels? It looks lovely!

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    1. jeanchaneyazNovember 2, 2015 at 1:45 PM

      Thanks, LeeAnn. I thought I would play with different colors this week, so I did grab a couple of pastel pencils.

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  6. AnonymousNovember 2, 2015 at 12:41 PM

    Oops I just read and of course they are!

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  7. crotnemNovember 2, 2015 at 12:48 PM

    Nice job on Gourdjous! I struggle w/ it.

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    1. jeanchaneyazNovember 2, 2015 at 1:47 PM

      Thank you, Cheryl. Don't overthink it as a gourd. Just do a curved line and then add Diva Dance to round out the shape every other aura.

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  8. IlseNovember 2, 2015 at 2:01 PM

    Your Gourdgeous tile looks very artistic. Nice!

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    1. jeanchaneyazNovember 2, 2015 at 2:09 PM

      Thank you so much, Ilse. I appreciate your comments always!

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  9. sallyNovember 2, 2015 at 3:05 PM

    Great squares & the "comedia del arte" style face masks are inspired :-)

    Sally

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  10. Jennifer SparrowNovember 2, 2015 at 5:09 PM

    Your Diva challenge is a success! I really like the dotted lines!

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  11. Suzanne Fluhr November 2, 2015 at 11:29 PM

    I really like the way your Gourdgeous "gourds" turned out and I haven't seen everyone's posts yet, but I bet the greens and blues will reflect you thinking outside the proverbial box. Moi, of course, stuck with fall colors because I'm waaaay too literal that way. You also picked the right media to get your colors to glow on the black tile. Very nice.

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    1. jeanchaneyazNovember 3, 2015 at 5:48 AM

      LOL, Suzanne. I picked the colors that worked on the black :)

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  12. freebird7100November 3, 2015 at 12:08 AM

    Love the gourds and the inchie, love the colors of the work you did this week

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  13. Anne's tangle blogNovember 3, 2015 at 12:18 AM

    I like the dotted lines in your Gourdeous!!

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    1. jeanchaneyazNovember 3, 2015 at 5:49 AM

      Thank you, Annemarie. I thought about filling with the white but then the first mark skipped and I decided to just go with what the pen was asking for!

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  14. ArtyZenNovember 3, 2015 at 3:09 AM

    A pleasure and a learning experience to visit today, Jean. LOVE your Gourdgeous tile and your square Verve is inspirational. Love your little Tibetan story at the end and the Inchie it inspired. Axxx

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    1. jeanchaneyazNovember 3, 2015 at 5:50 AM

      Annie, thank you so very much for your kind words!

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  15. MelissaNovember 3, 2015 at 3:14 AM

    I love your Verve tile!!

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  16. Dragonfly-ArtzNovember 3, 2015 at 3:24 AM

    Wonderful tiles. Gourdgeous is lovely and I love the pastel shading. Quite nice. (I, too, will have to research "emotion")

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    1. jeanchaneyazNovember 3, 2015 at 5:51 AM

      I think you will find out some interesting things about emotion, Dragonfly. Thank you for stopping by.

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  17. CarmelaNovember 3, 2015 at 9:14 AM

    Nicely done, i found the new pattern gourdgeous, but i was not capabel to make it nice...

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    1. jeanchaneyazNovember 3, 2015 at 2:40 PM

      Not every tangle is good for everyone. There are many tangles that I can't make "look nice" either. But, Carmela, there are so many tangles to choose from that we can just skip the ones we don't get along with :)

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  18. DevinNovember 3, 2015 at 8:35 PM

    What fun! I really like what you did.

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  19. Annette P.-L. November 3, 2015 at 11:46 PM

    Wonderful pieces this week again! Your Gourdgeous tile is wonderful with those colours. Also I like your unusual variation of Verve ... what a great idea!

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    1. jeanchaneyazNovember 4, 2015 at 6:15 AM

      Thank you, Annette. I'm thinking this would be fun to try with rectangles, stars, or other odd shaped centers too.

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  20. lilystanglesNovember 5, 2015 at 6:39 AM

    All three are lovely :)

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  21. KiaNovember 5, 2015 at 10:13 AM

    Snap - we used the same inchie idea - love the fruits of your research that you share with us - well done

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    1. jeanchaneyazNovember 5, 2015 at 10:41 AM

      Must be that "great minds" thing, Kia LOL! Thank you.

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  22. cstocksNovember 6, 2015 at 8:32 AM

    Now you have me thinking, Jean! Your insight into emotion surely deserves more in-depth study along nurture-nature lines. It's like the Inuit have 12 different words for snow and the Navajo have similar numbers for rain. The Diva tile is luminous with the colours you selected. Have a brilliant day! c

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    1. jeanchaneyazNovember 6, 2015 at 2:19 PM

      And, how many words do we have for green or blue? Maybe we just have more words for what is important to us? It is very interesting though. Thanks for stopping by, Cheryl, and for making me think even more.

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  23. chrissieNovember 6, 2015 at 10:31 AM

    Wonderful inchie and amazing artwork as well

    Love Chrissie xx

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  24. UnknownNovember 6, 2015 at 7:56 PM

    Lovely tiles!

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  25. Trillian AsNovember 8, 2015 at 11:46 AM

    Brilliant inchie!

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  26. LezliBNovember 9, 2015 at 1:51 AM

    Nice take on the square Verve and I really like the colors on the Gourdgeous tile. Your inchie is fun...great representation of emotion!

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  27. Diane ClancyNovember 29, 2015 at 10:19 AM

    Your Diva is very cool, Jean!! Already for Thanksgiving!! :) Lovely!! :)

    ~ Diane Clancy
    http://www.dianeclancy.com/blog/2015/11/my-diva-new-official-tangle-gourdgeous

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