Happy thoughts

I can not always go out during my lunch pause now, because of the changing weather.  So, some days I  just stay in my office - especially the rainy days.  What does one do then ? Reading, searching on the internet, looking for nice patterns, trying patterns in my sketch book etc.  One day, I wanted to change my desktop background, because it was a bit boring.  I looked at the possible backgrounds on my PC and found just a nice one that made me smile immediately.  Yes, it wil be this ! I also saw a zentangle in it.  I had a lot of ideas and happy thoughts looking at it. Always when I looked at it, I saw something else.  Very amusing.

And during lunch pauze some days later, I made this Zentangle Inspired Art card.  The little worms in the card reflect my happy thoughts. It hangs in my office now, to remind me on having a happy thought each day.

My desktop background picture:

Family moment

Last week I was  drawing some zentangles and the children came to sit next to me. They also wanted to make a real zentangle like I was doing on an real tile. So I gave them each one of my original tiles I bought at my CZT. I learned them some patterns and this is what they made. It was a real nice family moment all together around the table. Especially the eldest likes to learn more and more patterns so I showed her the http://tanglepatterns.com and a nice app Tanglepatterns Galery on the ipad and now sometimes she learns some patterns to me !

Cat-kin, frillee, fricle, flower-vine, eyletandribbon, agua (EO 15y)

Tipple, stars en some other patterns (AVC 10y)

And yet another banner

The Diva challenge #193 of this week is posted  by Holly Atwater, and we are challenged to use three patterns: Trio, Huggins and Xyp.  I did'nt know Trio en Xyp yet, and I particulary like Trio.  So much fun to draw !  I 'm sure I wil make some other tiles with it later on.

As I am still practicing with my banners, to get them beautifully curling, I wanted to make a banner with Xyp.  I took one of my tiles of the past weeks, and 'transformed' it into a tile with the patterns of this weeks challenge - it was a tile where I used Huggins so there I got my idea.  I also post my original tile bellow.

All the other tiles posted this week you can find on
http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.be/2014/11/weekly-challenge-193.html

My tile for this weeks challenge:

My original tile with link to the text I posted a couple of weeks ago:
http://alei-zentanglesandinspiration.blogspot.be/2014/10/banners-and-cemetery.html

Divadance in a window

For the Diva Challenge #192 of this week - published by Chris Letourneau - we were challenged to use the seton-pattern of Chris.  I wanted to create one big seton-window with a twist to Cadent.  It became a tile with different patterns in the corners of the window and a Divadance as focus in the middle of each part of the window.

Chainging in Square One

I am a member now of the Square One Purely Zentangle group on Facebook.  I realy like the intention of that group.  Only 'basic' zentangles are to be posted. Meaning: 3,5"x3,5" white tile, only black pen and pencil for shadow (and strings of course).  So back to basics.  It's a good way to focus on the patterns  itself and to see what you really can do on a tile of the original format.  People are making the most beautiful zentangles !  And it's a real inspiration source to me.

Here are my tiles with the patterns Chainging and Punzel, the focus for this week.
My best tile is here: Punzel, Flux and Tipple.  In Spring, I made a sketch of a huge plant near the swimming pool of De Nekker, but I did not yet know any patterns to make of nice zentangle of it.  And now, after learning Punzel and Flux I could transform my sketch in a nice tile !

And here are my earlier tiles of this week, where I still had to learn the pattern.
Tile with Chainging and Betweed (and surely a better one than I posted last week for the Diva Challenge of Betweed)

Tile with Punzel and Ennies:

And ... thank you all for all comments I already received on my blog posts.  It's always nice to read and it keeps me going !

A quick Betweed

Diva challenge #191: a quick Betweed ... in between intensive choral rehearsals, extremely good weather for 1 november and some concerts.