Tangling Lefty, Adding Grounding, and a Bookmarker for Fall

A Facebook group I belong to was talking about doing an Autumn Bookmarker. Nothing came of it, but the idea was in my head anyway:


I played with spray paints, glitter glue, Copics and colored pencils. 


I had a small silk leaf that I used to trace on one and spray over on the other. I used Betweed, 'nZeppel, and something I can't remember the name of. Sigh.








The Yahoo ZIA Group had us do a tile adding some grounding. I don't often think of doing this, so I thought it would be a good idea to try:

Printemps, 'nZeppel, Static, Flux and Amaze










Well, trying to do a Zentangle lefthanded was quite the challenge, from the Diva. I noted a few things while trying to draw with my non-dominant hand. First, I drew more lightly, second, I drew more slowly. Then, I noticed that I was very tense and un-zentangle like and had to force my shoulders down. Then, I started to wonder if I should try to turn my hand upside down like most lefties do. That didn't work at all. I'm almost embarrassed to post this one:

 I though it best to use easy tangles for this one. I used Mooka, Crescent Moon, Flukes, and Pokeroot. Can anyone guess why there is a Bronx Cheer in there HAHA!

Dare #68, And a Lot of Color

This week's Dare from The Bright Owl was to do something like a Jekyll and Hyde adaptation of her template. I folded the paper in half and just made two different sets of tangles.


Then, after coloring one in, using blues and greens, I slipped just a tiny bit into the black and white side to acknowledge that they are related








My favorite ZIA, Zentangle Inspired Art, this week was from my ZIA Yahoo group. We were to do a ZIA in black and white and then use just one color to it.

I happen to love Giraffes.

If you love a particular animal or two, look online for that animal and "totem" and you will find out that you like a certain animal for a reason.

(Humm, I just noticed that this seems to be a green week. I think I was purposely pushing myself out of the purple range for once!)



A few other Zentangles and ZIAs:






Ballenchain from
Sandy Steen Bartholomew

 Left:
 ATC Swap

Right:
Idea from a YouTube Video of a CZT Marketing Retreat of
"Tangle Folk" by Billie Lauder. These are tooo much fun! Take a look!
 
 





 Bookmarkers for a Swap. The ties are made from my own handspun Bombex Silk.

A Dare, Bookmarkers, and Maisma

Geneviève Crabe contributed one of her Zendala templates today to Erin's dare from The Bright Owl. This template had LOTS of lines and I started spinning until I remembered that you do not have to include every single line into your tangle. Well, even with those barriers removed, I still managed to add more of my own even after I had removed a lot of the originals:

I also have a trade of vined and flowered bookmarkers that need to be mailed out:

I sprayed the 2" x 6" cardstock before I added the tangles with colored pens. I used Henna Drum, Zinger, Jax, Limpitz, CatKin, Rose and Barberpole. Then, I added some Copic markers for highlighting and shadows.

The TOW for this week was to use Maisma by Linda Dawson. Take a look at Linda Farmer's Tangled Patterns Site. I felt "boxed in" by it, so I went outside the box:

I so appreciate your looking at my blog and appreciate getting your comments. I will, hopefully, be getting my CZT certification soon and am trying very hard to get my work to be worthy of the title. I don't feel that my work is as neat as I would like so I try to make up for it in originality. I'm not sure that is a fair exchange though LOL! How I so admire all the real talent out there. I love how everyone shares so willingly in this tangled community!