Zentangle® Zenith, Windfarm, and an Inchie

Holly Atwater, CZT, is the guest blogger over at The Diva Challenge this week. Holly does some wonderful meditative audios for you to listen and tangle to. I, for some reason, need silence when I seriously tangle, so this doesn't work for me, but do give it a try. She did offer an alternative challenge for us, and that one was to use Betweed. I really wanted to try out the new tangle from Zentangle.com (read the most recent newsletter for step-outs) called Zenith. So, I put the two together.

Facebook's Square One had a focus tangle of Man-O-Man and/or Windfarm (Margaret Bremner). I used both.

And, Every Inchie Monday had a prompt word of "Pavilion". Sorry, folks, I couldn't even begin to think of anything clever this week. So, just a plain old pavilion. Wish I were there enjoying some sea breezes!


Just an aside. I am now back to doing the Zendala Dare. I will be posting these on Tuesdays (unless life gets in the way LOL). This week only, I will post a link to the last one I did.

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Zentangle® with a Stencil

The Challenge from the Diva this week is to use a stencil as a string. Being an art journalist and card maker means I have LOTS of stencils. I chose one from TC Designs. I used Quib, 'Nzepple, Crescent Moon, Ibex, Knightsbridge, Betweed, and Tipple.

For Square One on Facebook, the tangle to use was Man-O-Man, to which I added Festune and Verdigogh.

And, Every Inchie Monday had a prompt of "Gecko!" Did you know that a mechanical engineer has come up with gloves for humans that mimic the sticky pads of a gecko's feet to allow for vertical climbing on smooth surfaces? Here is an interesting article about it.

Zentangle ® - Inchie, Dare, Challenge

Tidings, Man-O-Man, Ennies

The Diva challenged us to leave some white/empty space in our tangles. That's easier said than done for some of us. I really had to think this one out. Also, I had a student yesterday that really made me think about shading, so I tried doing mine a bit differently this time too.








 


Erin's, I am the Diva, Dare was to include my favorite tangle, Paradox. I managed to squeeze it in to all kinds of places with this template. I particularly like forcing Paradox into places that are made to be asymmetrical.







Inchies. Oh what fun I am having with those tiny little squares of paper where anything goes as long as you can fit it into that one inch square. This week's prompt was "dual" and what else would I think of but my beloved Copic markers with the dual points. This is especially fitting as I am going later this week for two days of intensive training to become Copic Certified so that I can teach others how to use these beautiful markers.

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