TangleBomb Friday

 It's a String Thing #78

Adele Bruno's string

patterns: Heartline, Hearty, LG & Lovelines

 for the One Tangle: week 6 facebook group challenge using Jane Monks string

New to me "M" patterns: Marasu, Msst, Munchin & Meteors 
for the "That's New to Me" Challenge

There sure are a lot of hearts going on here in the World of Zentangle. Oddly enough I find that I've been letting go (just a little) of my anti-Valentine leanings. 

The first tile is for Adele Bruno's "It's a String Thing" Challenge. This was a hard one. We were asked to use 4 specific heart themed patterns within the mirrored heart string. After a few failed attempts I considered omitting one and though there are no hard and fast rules, I follow rules. I stuck to my guns. Something about this string seemed to ask for symmetry.

I am also NOT a hearts & flowers kind of girl and never bought into the Valentine's Day hype relationship or no. Once I reluctantly started on these heart inspired challenges, I found the red, black and white theme fit into my world view and artistic sensibilities, especially when I found that adding black hearts and bold graphics tweaked a little jolt of glee in my jaded old heart. I'm particularly fond of those bullseye hearts above. That's my take on Adele Bruno's pattern "LG".

Diverting from the hearts is my first submission to the new facebook group One Tangle, Jane Monk's weekly challenge where she gives us a string of her own design and perhaps a suggestion of pattern placement. 

I really do not need another weekly challenge to a procrastinate around but I'm more productive when my pieces have a purpose or at the very least some kind of focus. I combined two challenges in one by using new 'M" patterns within Jane's great string for this weeks "That's New to Me" challenge by Suzy Mosh Creations. This was the perfect opportunity to explore Marasu, a coil pattern that I've seen done exceptionally well on Lily's Tangles and I've been wanting to try. This took me a really, really, really long time to draw.
I guess this could hardly be a TangleBomb with only two tiles so I adding this:

I resurrected this from the dud pile last week and just started embellishing it. I wish I'd taken a picture of it before. I think I just didn't see this going where I wanted back when I started it several months ago.  I pulled it out to practice some shading somewhere around the time I got the idea to go red marker crazy with hearts and stuff,..it came to life again. With the exception of Pokeleaf I have no idea if these are even patterns.

Diva Challenge #203 & Made by Joey #46

This weeks challenge at I am the Diva is a UMT~Use My Tangle. The pattern is called "Athitzi" , submitted by Seven.

The heart, oddly enough, was my idea. I do not buy into the whole Valentine's Day concept, but I'm sticking with my plan to create Valentine inspired designs.  Several of my favorite blogs are issuing challenges using heart themed patterns and this is what's in my toolbox at the moment. 

I was quite amazed to see how many heart themed patterns there are out there and how much fun they are to draw. 

I'm really liking "Athitzi". It's so versatile and really relaxing to draw. I want to keep doing more and since resurrecting my art school set of Rapidograph technical pens, I'm jazzed that I managed to clean 15 years worth of gunk out of them, I'm enjoying playing with all the line widths.

This is the challenge for Made by Joey: using heart-y tangles.

 Made by Joey Challenge #46

patterns used: Heartfully, Heartstrings, Heartvine & Hearty

There are several gorgeous heart patterns at A Little Lime

TangleBomb Thursday

Diva Challenge #202

A Duotangle

Patterns: Copada & Chebucto

My schedule is all over the map this week, but it's been a productive one, thus far, tangle-wise. Perhaps not my best efforts artistically, but the journey has been rewarding and that's all good.

First up: I am the Diva's Weekly Challenge #202: use only two tangles, hence, DuoTangle. Copada and Chebucto are two lovely patterns by Margaret Bremner at The Enthusiastic Artist (where there are some great tips on moving patterns around corners). I've noodled around with Copada before but Chebucto is new to me and I had some trouble with it. I'm really bad with precision and lean toward the organic and embracing wonkiness whenever I can get away with it. This one? well...I wasn't super thrilled with the outcome. I ADD'd my way over to "That's New to Me", the weekly challenge set forth by SuzyMosh Creations where we are to use patterns we've never used before. Up this week is the letter "U". The Tangle Patterns list of "U" patterns is pretty small and a couple I've already tangled with (pun intended). This is what I came up with:

That's New to Me Challenge

"U" tangles

Uni, Up & Down and Upholstered

Upholstered was pretty much a hot mess but that's the way I roll somedays. I went back in with the color much later, after I'd gone and done this:

It's a String Thing Challenge #77

String #77

Patterns: Heartrope, Heartstrings, Heartvine and Luv-a

Not to be stopped, I went off on a Valentine's Day inspired tangent and pulled out the red marker. The plan (of the moment) for the next two weeks is to go red, black and white and create a bunch of Valentines that I'll either give out at work or leave around RAZ's (Random Acts of Zentangle). It'll depend on how many I get done. I may also go back and re-work some duds. 

Anyhoo, I went back and did this:

Diva Challenge #202 redux

This brings up a question I hope some of you will answer: What do you do with your tiles? 

I've only been at this a few months and I've got about 150 tiles. I was thinking of laminating some and saving them up for little gifts or making coasters, which I have no idea how to do. 

I just discovered the RAZ facebook page and like that idea as well.

Here's this weeks challenge from Made By Joey:

 

Challenge 45-Try your hand at tangling

patterns used: Chebucto, Copada, Crescent Moon, Wud, Sanibel & Paisel

Thank's for stopping by. Your comments and ideas are most welcome and appreciated.