banners and cemetery

Last weekend I made another observation walk.  I decided to walk to the public cemetery, which is near to us.  It is a very old cemetery with lots of beautiful monuments.   I wanted to look around a bit, and get inspired for some new tiles.

On a lot of monuments I saw banners and garlands on the grave monuments.  Hm, quit chalanging for me  to try drawing it.  Back home, I looked also to some examples already used in tiles on the internet.  Thank you all for it !  Also the round glass window of the old church was inspiring.

A few days later, I made a nice card with some banners and circles in it.  Here it is !  And I'll try to make some other cards later on using the scetches I made that day in my scetch book.

Zentangled earrings

My daughter has always such creative ideas. The loombands mania is a bit less now, so she wanted to do somerhing else. She likes to make objects and juwerly with schrinking paper for instance. And she tried to use zentangle patterns to create them. She made some zentangled earrings and I think they are fabulous ! She used the patterns bales, featherfall, kaleido, cadans, nzeppel and some patterns of herselves: sixties, auraleaves ... May be one day she starts a webshop with her creations. 

And here an example of the earrings before schrinking

Basic zentangle course and a challenge

Last saterday I followed a basic zentangle course together with Ingrid and Ulla at CZT Rita Nikolajeva in Brussels.  It was such a nice experience !  I only practice zentangle for a few months, and I wanted to know more about the philosophy, the real materials used to zentangle etc.  I surely can advice a course of Rita to you.   You can look at her website dotslinespatterns.com for different workshops she gives.

We learned some basic patterns like Tipple, Crescent Moon, Hollibough and Static and I decided to make a little series of them - just for practice .  One of my tiles is also for Laura, who set the Diva challenge #190 to use pink this week for her grandmother who passed a way a year ago of brest cancer.  As I know very little about colouring and have no special material for it, I just took a pencil of my chilren and coloured the bow of my 'cookie boxes' I put into my tile.  It reminds me of the cookie box I brought to the worskhop last week - it was on my birthday- but also because cookie boxes remind me to my own grandmother. Laura, may be your grandmother liked nice cookie boxes too !

And the pattern you can see in my last tile, is one of my daughter. She showed it to me yesterday and she calles it 'Sixties'. I give you also the steps for this pattern. May be this pattern already exists, but nevermind, at the moment we call it like this.

Yuma challenge #189

The Diva challenge of this week is to use YUMA in your tile.  So for me a challenge to learn a new pattern.  A quick look at tanglepatterns.com and I can start.  And oh yes,  on wednesday there are already many beautiful examples on the Diva site weekly-challenge-189.html so inspiration enough to make my own tile :).

On the patterns site I came also across the pattern Crescent Moon, and I used that in my tile in combination with Yuma and a little Diva Dance flower.  It did not take that long to make a nice zentangle with these patterns, and I made another one with a variation of Yuma.  I filled the space between all the lines, and I also filled the leaves.  Looks nice to me !

The third tile I publish here is a tile I made for a challenge of some weeks ago "draw a string with your eyes closed, and fill it with patterns". I didn't have time to finish is then and I added Yuma and Crescent Moon to it today.  Little shading and finished now.

circles in circles

On a lazy Saturday, I was practicing some new patterns and regarding the many beautiful and inspiring examples on the internet.  As my daughter was around, she said to me she likes to draw circels - 'it's so fascinating'.  So I asked her to draw some circels for me and she made me two drawings.  One with random circels, and the other circels-in-circels.  Very nice, now I could start to fill them with the patterns. I especially liked a new pattern I learned called Yew-dee, which is another nice variation on Bales. I used it in my two zentangles. Some other patterns I used ard Yincut, Paradox, Chill-on, Phicops, Zazzle, Queens crown, Diva dance etc. Hope you like the results too !

Rainbow challenge #188

Here is my creation for the Diva Challenge #188.  The challenge is to use some LGBT aspect in your tile - as to support the National Coming Out Day on October 11th.

So.... I looked up what LGBT means, and I learned a lot ! Thank you Laura for this challenge.  It was a nice thing to learn all about LGBT movement, diversity, rainbow, the colours used, the number of stripes etc.

I hope you also can appreciate my zentangle and the diversity of patterns I used in and around the rainbow.

zentangled friendship bracelets

My two girls are fond of friendship bracelets.  Last year, it was mostly the eldest who made a lot of bracelets in cotton tread - loom bands were not yet known in Belgium then :(.  She already used all the books of the library with examples (even more than once !), and made also many bracelets using internet video's and schema's.  They are endless, just like zentangles.  So for her birthday, I decided to make a Zentangle card with most of the patterns she used in her bracelets.  Nice surprise for her !

This summer the loom bands mania started also here so now the girls make mostly loom band bracelets using internet video's. Bit I did not yet zentangle them.  May be next summer :)

Birthday card with zentangled bracelet patterns.

One of the patterns I like very much so I give it here seperately.  Later on I will make a pattern of it and publish it also.  I'll let you know !

Wall paper, curtains and Ahh...

In June we were invited by our neighbor girl on her school to visit the exposition of thesis they made to finalize their high school.  She followed an art education, and we were interested in seeing all the things the students made.  In one of the exposition rooms they used a piece of wallpaper as decoration, and I found it so beautiful for a new zentangle.  I took a picture of it and put in my 'zentangle inspiration' album.  (I also took some other pictures, but not worked out in a zentangle yet).

And last week I passed a neigbors house (other neighbors) while fetching some bread at the bakery, and had a good look to their curtains.  Yes, today was the day I  would take a picture of it to make a nice zentangle card of it.  I already saw it many times, but never took the time to stand still and had a good look. So now I did ! Mindfulness you know :)

In the mean time, I got to know the pattern Ahh - as I am learning the official list of zentangle patterns - and Ahh... in a sudden I saw these two things were just a variation on Ahh.  Back at home I made my cards, and I publish them now together.

Here you can see wat I made of it, and I post the original pictures also. I hope it can be an inspiration to you too!

(creation date 2/10/2014)

(creation date 29/6/2014)

And here the pictures (yes that's me in the background)