Zentangle® Paradox and 'Nzeppel with an Inchie

Cheers for the Diva, who has posted 200 challenges for us! We thank her, not only for the fun challenges and learning, but for the friendships we have made along the journey.

For this challenge, #200, we were asked to use our go to or favorite tangle as a monotangle and be sure to add the year somewhere. My absolute favorite tangle is Rick's Paradox. I can add it to just about any shape too LOL! So here it is, on a Renaissance tile, with Paradox inside of Paradoxes.

Square One tangle this week was 'Nzeppel. I added some Cat-Kin and Pokeroot. Notice the 'Nzeppel inside of the Pokeroot? Think I have a problem?









 

And, finally, from Every Inchie Monday, the prompt was giraffe. I didn't want to go to afar with this one as the giraffe is my main totem. A totem, if you do not know, is an animal or thing that is believed to have spiritual significance. The giraffe, who sticks his neck out, reminds us that we all have the ability to rise up to a challenge and be graceful when doing so. I, the giraffe, love all the other giraffes in this group who boldly post something that they have created from their own heart.

Editing to acknowledge that, yes, the Diva asked for the number 200 and I, being a very poor reader of directions, turned that into the year. Oh, well, not perfect I guess :)

Zentangle® Betweed, Beelight, and an Inchie

I have had such a wonderful week. Friday, I was lucky to have been able to give a class to one of our Diva Challenge participants from the Netherlands, Kay. She was visiting here in AZ, looked me up, and we had so much fun tangling together. It is so amazing to me how we can be from all over the world, yet friends through this shared love of Zentangle. You can see the ZIA's (Zentangle Inspired Art) she did in creating a tangled garden and exploring fractuals on the Workshop tab on the top. Hers is the first picture under student works.

For the Dive Challenge #191, we were to use Betweed as a monotangle. I think this is such a graceful tangle. I decided to push it into different shapes and go in different directions too.

For the Square One group on Facebook, the tangle of the week was Beelight. I also pushed this one a bit and used more of curved rectangles rather than squares.

And for Every Inchie Monday, the prompt was "Vegetable." I have no idea why this was the image that popped into my head, but it did, and I went with it!

Thanks for stopping by. I love to read your comments. It makes blogging worth all the time that goes into it. Maybe you too will visit AZ one day and we can meet :)

Zendala Dare #70 With Stricles

This week's Dare from Erin at The Bright Owl just was asking for a monotangle. I flipped through different tangle patterns and decided on Stricles with NO shading:


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Okay, I couldn't stand it and am editing to add the same one WITH shading. Which one?

Celtic Challenge #32 and Cockles n Mussels

Only two today. First I did the Celtic Challenge #32 from Judy West. We were to make up our own tangle pattern and then put it into  Celtic designed step out boxes and decorate them as well. I have made up a tangle called "chopped". If it is already out there with a different name, I do apologize and let me know so I can give proper credit.

Then Roy, at Mindful Creations, had us do Margaret Bremner's Cockles n Mussels. I really enjoy doing his monotangle exercises. They really get you thinking about ways to spice it up.


Just a bit lopsided but you can be sure I didn't use a ruler LOL!

Zendala Dare #65, Knightsbridge Monotangle, and Some Play

I have so many kettles in the fire since I have retired. I guess I think I have to do just everything in the world TODAY! I will, hopefully, slow down soon. HAHA!

First, the Zendala Dare from The Bright Owl.

The first one I did was so busy that I thought it looked just messy. So, I redid it with a little less going on:












I was trying to avoid the "busy bee" look, but I think I wound up with it in both anyway.

I also can't figure out how Erin makes hers stand out with that curved and dimensional edge. So, I rubbed some pencil along the line. Not it. Any suggestions?





Roy's Adventure using a monotangle had us using Knightsbridge:




This was a good one for me to do because I always avoided Knightsbridge. Two reasons. First, I thought it was boring - NOT, and because it uses up a lot of ink - it does.


And, this is part of my "play" this week.

When I was an art teacher to very bright 1st through 8th graders, I introduced them to geometric designs. That was a million years ago and I have since forgotten how to do these. I ran across my old teaching materials and found the book that I had learned from in order to teach the children. "Creative Constructions" by Dale Seymour and Reuben Schadler 1974. Using a long strip of white tagboard (6" x 28") folded into a book style format, I started drawing a triangle, square and so on. After I did that, I thought I should play with different markers that I have to see what kind of bleed through different markers would leave me, and finally, I tangled them. For this one, I used Prang Brush Pens. They did not bleed through.

 This one, using Sandy Steen Bartholomew's pattern Y.A.F. is done with Copics. Big bleed through. They sure are nice to work with though. I added colored pencils for depth. On the other side, I just did a repeat of the triangle with Distress markers, that do not bleed, and tangled Rick's Paradox. (I won't make you look at every one :) )







The next is a simple square I colored with Bic Mark-It. These were nice to work with but they did bleed as well. So, there is an untangled square in the same color on the other side.

Finally, my favorite, Octagon Tangled:

This was done with Ranger Distress Markers. I love these markers. No bleed through. These are not color choice that I would consider favorites of mine, but I tend to buy things that are on sale and sometimes the choices aren't all that great!

I am also working on an art journaling book that I am making on my own. I will post some of that later on the Art Journal page later this week.


Thanks for stopping by and taking a walk with me down Tangle Street.

Hollibaugh and Neluma Fun

Roy, from Mindful Creations, asked us to use Hollibaugh for this week's adventure. I thought I would play with an outer section and then fill in the inner parts. I was surprised to see I had, kind of, drawn a star. It was not intentional as I probably couldn't have done one if I had tried!

I also worked on a really fun tangle by Patti Meijer called Nelumba. I backed it with some Neuron. and then went around it with Nelumba again:

This is really a fun pattern.  Give it a try!

Dare 60 or 24, Verve, Zen Rocks

 Another great day with the monthly tangle group. We worked on doing tangles on rocks.  What a great idea. Do use heavy duty markers though:

Finished embroidering Rick's Paradox with white on a black t-shirt. I'll wear it at the CZT training:

For Roy's monotangle this week at Mindful Creations, we worked with Verve. I thought it would be fun to do Verve in Verve:

And, finally, for Erin's Dare at The Bright Owl, we were to do a dare that we had previously completed and either didn't like what we did or had a problem with it. Since I am kind of new to the party, I randomly chose #24 (for my birthday) and challenged myself to use only tangles that I had never used before (or remembered doing) except for the center where I think I was just getting tired:

Phicops Monotangle

This week, Roy at Mindful Creations, asked us to do Phicops. I'm still working on trying to be more of a minimalist. It's hard to do though. Mistakes are much more visible don't you think? Oh, I forgot, no mistakes in Zentangle® :)

Roy's Monotangle Challenge

So, there is a new challenge in town. Roy, from Mindful Creations has challenged us to do a monotangle using the first meaningful tangle we learned using a simple Z string. The first tangle that I can remember was Rick's paradox. I believe that I came across it somewhere on the Internet and that's what got me started down the rabbit hole of Zentangle®. Looking at the finished monotangle, with shading, I find it difficult to believe that it is actually odd sections of paradox, usually done in a square. I believe it is because of the way I shaded it.