maandag 31 augustus 2015

Challenges square one July - August

In July, I only participated to two challenges, 'Munchin' and 'Hollibaugh' of the Square One Pure Zentangle facebookgroup.  But I tangled a lot other things during our hollidays: the children's notebooks, stones etc.  You can find it in the other items on my blog.

Here my tiles with Munchin and Hollibaugh.
Munchin I made in our hotel in Oxford, and Hollibaugh I made in our cottage in North Wales.



In August, I tried to follow some more challenges.

Week 1: Cirquital
I made a cirquital that looks also natural or organic, so I could also post if for the Diva Challenge this week.  I'm quit happy with the result.



Week 2: Schway
This was a new pattern for me, so I had to learn it first.  Not my fovorite yet, but I made this nice tile anyway, using the string of this weeks Diva Challenge.


Week 3: Jonqal
Another new pattern for me, this is why I like challenges.  It forces you to learn new things and get inspired by it.  This is a lovely pattern to me, I'll surely use it again in the future.  Here my tile I made this week.  Besides Jonqal I also used Eke, Tipple and a pearl


Week 4: Windfarm
Already the last week of the summer hollidays ! Time passes quickly. My Windfarm with Knightbridge in S-shapes.

 

zaterdag 22 augustus 2015

Undulated tangling

This weeks Diva Challenge #231 posted by Sharla Hicks is to do some undulated tangling using the C ans S-shape.  I'd never heard the word 'undulated' before, so I had to look it up first.  It's like 'curving', oh that's nice.  I also like curved lines very much. So I started to tangle immediately with the C and S shape, and made these series.
I liked the Sherla Rella, so I used it in all the tiles.






Last weeks Diva Challenge #230 was to make a zendala, using the proposed string published on the Diva site.  I had never made a zendala up to now, and it was nice doing so.  I'm quite happy with my result.


dinsdag 11 augustus 2015

Oxford towers and Welsh landscapes

Before we drove to our holliday cottage in Wales (July 2015), we visited Oxford for two days.  What a marvelous city ! Colleges, Churches, towers all over. Everywhere beautiful buildings and we could take a pause in the meadows and near the river. Yes we had some nice sunny weather there.

I made this tile of it to remember our visit.


Once in Wales, I made some other nice zentangles in my holliday sketch book, I post them also here.

The frontpage of my sketch book


The Coast and Coast path of North Wales, after a long walk.


Welsh stones and hollibaugh


Clouds and sun above the sea in North Wales

donderdag 6 augustus 2015

Lighthouse - Diva challenge #229

It's a while ago I made a post for the weekly Diva challenge, but the challenge of this week #229 had my attention.  (And also because of the time I can spend during the holliday's ofcourse)  The guest blogger Sandy Hunter asks us to focus on the white part on your tile. 

I still had a sketch in my sketch book that I dit not work out so far, and I thought is was perfect for this challenge.  It is a sketch of a new modern lighthouse that was build in Oostende (at the sea side in Belgium), and my husbend and I  saw it during our Easter holliday's there .  It had a big red pattern on the front, and I decided just to leave that part white in my tile, so it draws your attention.  I used Betweed, ING, Crescent moon, pearls for the lighthouse.  For the background I used Shattuck and Paradox.



I also post my tile for the previous challenge #228 of guest blogger Cari Sultanik, where we had to make a tile which looks organic or natural.  I post here my Cirquital tile I made last week for the Square One facebook group.  It it full of natural elements.