Use My Tangle: Orbs-la-dee by Anneke van Dam
The Diva is back and hopefully, so am I. The past 6 weeks has gotten me off my game. Capping off all of the holiday shenanigans was a week of house/dog sitting. Though I'd brought all of my drawing tools with me, there was not a comfortable place to draw and the lighting was bad. There was, however, cable TV, internet and good coffee. I fueled my Food Network addiction and cooked enough to inject my sadly neglected food blog with a little love.
I bought a new journal to kick off the new year. I like to do several sampler type Zia's in the beginning so I have some references when I'm feeling stuck.
I was so happy to revisit Orbs-la-dee. I had forgotten all about it, so it was perfectly fitting to include it here. I started this page after last week's Joey Challenge. I was looking at a lot of "A" patterns and made note of the ones I didn't get to use on last weeks entry.
Finish my Tile: The Alphabet Series featuring B'twixt
additionally: Bambooz, Bala, Buttacup and Barquillos
I've challenged myself to use at least one new pattern in every piece I create for the duration of the month...maybe longer.
Here's a Back-to-Basics piece I created for the Facebook group Zentangle: Tangled and Journaled Too! They're following The Zentangle Primer lessons. I don't have the book but I'm trying to follow along anyway. The task was to create tangleations of the 4 basic patterns. I'm really enjoying this.
Primerless Primer Study
exercise 2: Tangleations
Thanks so much for visiting my blog. Your thoughtful and generous comments delight and inspire me.
By the way, the winners of my Gift of Zentangle Diva Challenge were:
Annemarie of Anne's Tangle Blog
Kate of Art Lady Kate
and Denise Vitola
Email me (michelewynne1(at)gmail(dot)com) your snail mail addresses and I'll send off a little surprise.
Brilliant & beautiful black & brown bijou B!
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~ joey ~
Thank you Joey! I love how your challenges inspire me beyond just the challenge;-)
DeleteBeautiful work! Love how much you were able to get on the little bijou!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kate! There was actually more space than I thought. Of course the key was selecting the right patterns too. I wanted to include mostly new ones;-)
DeleteLove your Orbs-la-Dee with the skinny orbs! And thank you for sharing your sketch book page! I'm amazed at how intricate your little Bijou is!! Happy New Year Michelle! :)
ReplyDeletethanks Deanne! Happy New Year to you too;-)
DeleteI enjoyed all your Tangles!
ReplyDeleteYour tile is lovely!!
ReplyDeleteIt's always a surprise to me to look into someone's scetchbook, thank you for sharing; your Orbs-la-dee is wonderful and so is your B, but most of all I love your back-to-basics work. I wish you a happy 2017 with lots of tanglepleasure!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ria! I so happy to see you back. I have been enjoying the back to basics work the most;-)
DeleteAll are wonderful! Especially I like your fabulous journal page! Really a lovely mirror image of the week!
ReplyDeleteThank you Annette! It was a very Zen drawing;-)
DeleteGlad you're back! I love your Orbs-la-Dee rivier flow, together with these other tangles. Your Joey-B ;-) looks lovely with some patterns I didn't know yet. Good inspiration - as you always give me :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks Ilse! I'm hoping to balance the Alphabet Series of learning new patterns with the back to basics lessons I'm doing with the Facebook group;-)
Deleteoooh! I love peeking into your sketchbooks! These are all just wonderful! love that first one, and I'm intrigued by Arcados. Definitely going to play with that one! good work.
ReplyDeleteThanks Heidi! I really love Arcados too! The shading transforms it;-)
DeleteI just saw my name in the winner's circle, Michele! Thank you so much. Your blog is the best of the best and love coming here.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Denise for all of your lovely comments. I truly appreciate it. I mailed your gift of Zentangle yesterday;-)
DeleteYour journal page turned out really great! It proves that whatever tangles you choose, they always fit together nicely.
ReplyDeleteThank you Anneke! Orbs-la-Dee is a fave;-)
DeleteI love your journal page, it's exactly what I like drawing ! beautiful page.
ReplyDeleteThanks Chantal! I had a lovely time drawing that page. It's very time consuming but very Zen. I'm starting another one;-)
DeleteLovely tiles, Michele. Nice to be back, it's a while since I had time to look at your beautiful work. Axxx
ReplyDeleteThank you Annie! Welcome back. I hope you had a lovely holiday season.
DeleteBeautiful tiles, Michele! And I love your journal page with Orbs-la-Dee. And it is a great idea with those references on a journal page.
ReplyDeleteThanks Simone!
DeleteVery nice pieces. I love doing tangleations and I'll bet you are going to have a lot of fun following that group. Wish I had a bit more time to join in.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jean! I am enjoying that group study. I really don't have the time.either and other things may fall by the wayside, but I find it so enlightening to spend time with the basics and all of their possibilities;-)
DeleteLove your work, as always.
ReplyDeleteI really like what you are doing with the letters to use as headers. I realize you're not a monk hunched over a table in a remote monastery (at least I don't think you are), but your series references that time and art. I visited the illuminated Book of Kells exhibit in Dublin---quite inspiring. Happy New Year.
ReplyDeleteThanks Suzanne! Sometimes I feel like a monk hunched over a table;-)
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