Lucky clover

The challenge of 'Square One: Pure Zentangle' was to use the pattern Crescent Moon this week.  My Crescent  Moon turned out to be a four leaves clover ... for luck !  So here my wishes for 2015: luck and hapiness to all of you in 2015.

My next tile with crescent moon, I made on gray paper because I wanted to use some white in it. May be because of a bit of snow in my mind I think ?  And there it is: today a few centimeters of snow - may be tomorrow just enough for the childer to play in.

During the year I made some other flowers, and I'll post them here together with my lycky clover.  The first down here is my napkin-flower ('servietbloem') .  I made it in the summer after a barbecue we had with some friends.  The hostess put some very nice napkins on the table with a beautiful pattern.  I tangled it immediately at home, and made this nice flower with it. It's also made on gray paper.

The tile here was the first I made on black paper.  Not that easy with the white gel pens I have.  I should look for some better ones soon !  I tangled the flowers of my eyeglasses case, during a a coffee break while doing some shopping a while ago.  For the background on the tile, I was inspired by the wall paper of the cafe.

Keep it simple with a wish - challenge #198

This weeks Diva Challenge #198 is 'to keep it simple, stupid' (KISS).  What is simple to me ? A simple pattern, lot's of white space on the tile.  Not much thinking while drawing, but still enough contrast and a nice border.
Just as in life: I wish you some simple things, white space to fill in as you pleace and sometimes a bit of contrast and going outside the border as the finishing touch.

I used a simplifyed version of fricle for the border, and Indy-Rella in the middle.  A bit of shadow, and that' it. Simple and nice looking !

Christmas thoughts in Gneiss

My tile for the Square One zentangle group of the past week: focus on Gneiss.  I have put Chainging next to it and some baubles.  Yes, christmas is already in my mind.

And in the same line, I made a christmas card for my collegue who gives me each year a card with some nice wishes for me and my family and some little presents for the children with christmas.  So especially for him this Gneiss christmas card.

Because I like series of tree, I made another Gneiss card today, with  Holly christmas flowers and Indy-Rella next to it.

Arukas for the Diva challenge #197

This week's challenge #197 is to use Arukas in your tile.  It was a new pattern for me, so first some practice.  I could go for it quietly on sunday afternoon.  The youngest stays at my family for one night and the oldest is studying, so... time for me to tangle !
Here is my tile in which I combined Arukas with Indy-Rella (Square One 's challenge of this week) and Tipple and hmm... I like the result.  I hope you too.

At the same time, I'm working on some christmas project, or better New Years project but I don't want to post any of it yet.  Must be a surprise for Januari 1st.  If I don't post that much on my blog you know why.  So... some patience !

Assunta bees

Two tiles with Assunta for the challenge of the past week of the facebook group Square One.  I especially like the first one.  Open space and the patterns Assunta and Flux nicely next to each other.  To me it are just little bees or some other flying insects.

In this one I used Assunta with C-scape and some form of Yincut

Flamenco girl - challenge #196

The Diva Challenge of this week (#196) has been posted by Emily Classon (http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.be/2014/12/weekly-challenge-196.html).  Her challenge is to use some dolls-inpiration to make your tile, because she is often surrounded by dolls of her little daughter.  Same at my place, you can find barbies and other dolls everywhere. As I am not a real artist, my drawings of dolls and related stuff realy aren't very succesful.  So I turned to internet and looked what I could find there: pictures of dolls, barbies, dresses, shoes, other accessories.   Than I came by a barbie flamenco dress and I thought is was just perfect to make my tile.  Quit a challenge to draw all the lace ribbons on the bottom of the dress, and I wanted to look as it is in motion.

And here is my tile.  I first draw the dress, and then I just added some strings as to give it arms and legs so it looks like the dress has an invisible doll or girl who is dancing the flamenco.

Momorial flowers and ING

Since October and November in Belgium was all about momorials and remembering WWI, it was a lot in my head too.  Especially because we gave two momorial concerts one in the beginning of November, and one at the end.  Two different locations and also two different choral groups and programs to perform but twice momorial songs with some memorial flowers. Everyone had to put a  little poppy on there (black) clothes, to have a nice homogeneaus group on stage. 

On the last concert we had to wait about tree hours (!) before we could perform, and fortunately I had  my scetch book with me.  I started a zentangle with some simple poppies and some strings. Then I saw the challenge on the facebook group ' Square One: Purely Zentange' to use ING and shading this week.  I took my momorial tile again to finish and ING just fits into it.  Don't you think so ?

And here our memorial poppy