Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Diva Challenge # 296, Made by Joey Challenge #142 and a few other musings

Use My Tangle Monday: Moowa by Anja Ipsen

The first Monday of the month is a feature the Diva calls Use My Tangle where we're challenged to use a pattern submitted by one of the Diva's many fans and followers. Moowa is a lovely take on one of my favorite patterns: Mooka. It also presents the same challenge for me that Mooka did: avoiding clumsy. There's a Fibonacci elegance to curves and curls that I find that the teensiest misstep bothersome. That's probably due to my slight OCD;-)
Anyhoo, I used up several pages in my sketchbook practicing this. I need more work but this was a pretty good start.
Finish my Tile series: Japonica

Joey started us off with a hexagonal string for this holiday inspired challenge. After much deliberation, I decided to keep it simple. I love the colors of the tissue paper. This was a fun piece t create.

Zentangle HQ

I created some home made 3Z tiles to jump in on the 12 Days of 3Z challenge from Zentangle HQ. These are so nice because they're fairly quick to complete and they make a great mosaic. I sort of penciled in strings that fit together but lost my way;-)


I finished this Travelling Tangle this week:
My finish to Kat van Rooyen's super fun spill tile

This immediately made me think of jewelry, so gems it was.


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25 comments:

  1. UnknownDecember 7, 2016 at 10:27 AM

    Gorgeous tile with Moowa. It is a unleashed sea !

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    1. Michele WynneDecember 7, 2016 at 8:46 PM

      Thank you Christine! Unleashed is a good description;-) I used a traditional calligraphy pen and had a few dripping accidents.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 7, 2016 at 10:55 AM

    Love your Moowa tile! The movement is incredible. The brightness of the Joey tile is lovely, and aren't the 3Z tiles fun. I also make some out of the regular tiles so I could play along. Your traveling tile with the gems is outstanding!

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    1. Michele WynneDecember 7, 2016 at 8:32 PM

      Thank you Kate! There where a lot of fun ideas to play with this week;-)

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  3. AntonineDecember 7, 2016 at 12:04 PM

    I love everything you did this week! On the Diva Challenge, I love how the Sand Swirl echoes the shape of the Moowa, but adds texture to the piece. Your Joey Challenge is so colorful and beautiful. Rich looking! Your 3Z tiles are beautiful. Using that shape is a whole new paradigm, isn't it? Your traveling tangle tile is amazing. I just love your drop shadows! I must take notes... (hehe). What a great post!

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    1. Michele WynneDecember 7, 2016 at 8:35 PM

      Thank you Antonine! I'm surprisingly quite taken with the 3Z concept. It's been a very inspiring week so far;-)

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  4. trixie04December 7, 2016 at 12:44 PM

    What a great composition of Moowa. It fits so well with Sandswirl. Your shading is so fantastic. I like your other tiles, too.

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    1. Michele WynneDecember 7, 2016 at 8:48 PM

      Thank you Trixie! Sandswirl is probably my number one over used pattern but I love it so much;-)

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  5. Nic @ Photography-by-Nic.comDecember 7, 2016 at 1:53 PM

    I love all your tiles! The traveling tile is really neat, especially using the spill as your string.

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    1. Michele WynneDecember 7, 2016 at 8:41 PM

      Thank you Nic! I had a lot of fun with that Travelling Tangle Tile. It's funny sometimes how, in a split second, you "see" something in your head and you know there's no use fighting it. I did not want to do gems on this, but the tile had other ideas;-)

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  6. UnknownDecember 7, 2016 at 3:50 PM

    These are all fabulous! Your Moowa and Sandswirl go together so well! Love your 12 Day Tiles!

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    1. Michele WynneDecember 10, 2016 at 8:08 AM

      Thank you Deanne! I'd like to say the pattern choice was instinctive but it was purely dumb luck;-)

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  7. Anne's tangle blogDecember 7, 2016 at 10:53 PM

    Moowa and Sandswirl are beautiful together!

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    1. Michele WynneDecember 10, 2016 at 8:09 AM

      Thank you Anne! This tile turned out much better than it should have;-)

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  8. UnknownDecember 8, 2016 at 3:08 PM

    So much stunning about WONDERFUL tiles :-)!!!! Wow wow wow!!!!!

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  9. Gudrun S.December 9, 2016 at 7:24 AM

    Gorgeous tiles :-)

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  10. BineDecember 9, 2016 at 7:35 AM

    Wow, all tiles are so gorgeous!! Love the combination between Moowa and Sandswirl. My favorit this week is the tile with the gems.

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    1. Michele WynneDecember 10, 2016 at 8:04 AM

      Thanks Sabine! The pattern combo was a happy accident. I use Sandswirl when I need to take a break from Tipple, my other fill of choice. I didn't catch the similarity until I was finished with the tile;-)

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  11. jeanchaneyazDecember 9, 2016 at 10:05 AM

    Beautiful work. Shapes like Moowa and Mooka seem to require some muscle memory. I filled lots of pages before I could get any flow to Mooka, which I loved enough to do this :)

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    1. Michele WynneDecember 10, 2016 at 8:06 AM

      Thanks Jean! I'm still filling pages with Moowa...

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  12. Jennifer SparrowDecember 11, 2016 at 8:37 AM

    You have exalted Moowa to new levels! (I had a feeling you would!) So elegant, and so clever to use it with Sandswirl. Everything is easy on the eyes, and I especially commend you for those 3Zs!

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  13. Susan TheronDecember 12, 2016 at 2:22 AM

    Lovely tiles!

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  14. Annette P.-L. December 12, 2016 at 10:52 AM

    Wonderful and very inspiring post! I love your way of using MooWa! It´s fantastic!

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