Mandalas by Ben Kwok

I already follow the zentangle group Ornation Creation of Ben Kwok for a while (Facebook Ornation Creation).  He publishes each week an amazing template you can use for your zentangle work.  I already made some animals using his templates, you can find them earlier on my blog.  Now I decided to use some mandala templates.  Oh that was quite a challenge !  But I like the results very much.  I hope you enjoy them too.

Mandala-201

Mandala-012

Mandala-019

Challenges Square One November 2016

Week 1 Boze
No time to participate, due to other zentangle projects I'm working on.  I'll publish them later on.


Week 2 Fasset
I made a Fasset in the round.

Week 3 Rainking

Week 4 Moowa
Oh, that's a nice one to do !

Reticula Challenge #295

The Diva Challenge this week (#295) is the same as the previous week, so to use a grid as base and fill it up with a design of your own.   The challenge is to make a 'Reticula' tile.  I did not participate last week, but I decided to go for it this week and I had some free time this afternoon.  My daughter invited a friend for playing this afternoon, so more free time for me !

For this week's challenge we have to choose a design that is asymmetrical.  Then alternate the design inside the grid - creating another more complex pattern!  

Tête Cubiste from Marthe Donas

A few weeks ago, there was a picture of one of the works of Marthe Donas (1885 - 1967) in the newspaper, as an advertisement for an exhibition in BOZAR (Brussels).  Immediately as I saw it, I wanted to make a zentangle drawing of it.

This work from her Avant Garde period is 'Tête Cubiste' (1917), and it is exposed for the moment in the BOZAR in Brussels. My husband and I are going to see the exhibition soon.  It took a while before it was finished, because I'm not used to work on this large format (27 x 36cm).  But I'm pleased with the result.

And here the original.

Challenges Square One October 2016

Yeh, all the illnesses due to infections and tooth-trouble of myself as well as my husband is past time !! 

Week 1 Florez

Oh what a nice flower pattern. I made a beautiful tile using it and got a lot of nice comments on it on facebook. 

week 2 Osun
Oh, it reminds me of a pattern I created myself last year.  So I tried this one now.

Week 2 Antique

No finished tile, only a try-out in my sketch book. 

Week 3 Tagh

A new and a nice pattern. I made this beautiful tile with using Antique and Joki as well.

My First Big Zentangle Artwork

I made my first big zentangle artwork this weekend.  I framed 42 of by best tiles together in one large frame, and it hangs in our living room now.  I'm very proud of myself and the result is really beautiful !

Some gems in Flux

For the Diva challenge #290: duotangle of Flux and Nzeppel. I created some gems in the flux.

Birthday

It was my birthday last week and I got this great surprise of my husband and daughter. They bought me a new I-phone cover, made of one of my own drawings. I wasn't aware and did not know they looked into my zentangle drawings to find a good one to place on the cover. They have chosen the Mooka. Nice isn't it !

If you are interested in ordering a cover for your cell phone with your own creation, you can visit the website of Case Company.   The quality of the covers and the service are very good !

And this is the original drawing from which the cover picture was taken:

Challenges Square One September 2016

We had quit a stressful month September (due to the school start and illness of myself and my husband).  But, I was glad I could 'escape' sometimes in the challenges of this month.

Beeline
This is a pattern I already know from the beginning of my zentangle period.  So I surely made a tile with it.

Crezendo
A not-so-easy Crezendo with Tipple as background.

FiFe (FiVe)

I always thought the name of the pattern was Five, but now I see it is in fact Fife.  I made a nice Fife tile in the round, with a dew drop in the middle.

Garlic Cloves
Lovely pattern is this  ! For my tile I was inspired by our kitchen placemats

Challenges Square One August 2016

Time to publish my tiles of August 2016.  Due to the extremely good weather we have her in September, we spent a lot of time outside, so no computertime...

Week 1: Striping
Oh nice ! Finally time to make the tile that is already a few months in my sketchbook.

Week 2: Abeko
Nice pattern, with lots of possibilities !  I made a lovely tile after a visit to an exposition with some pictures of  refugees...

Week 3: Oke
OKe, no time, no tile...


Week 4: A-Dalpha

Week 5: Viaduct
We were on our Holliday in Germany, were I made this tile of our visit of the Lava Keller in my holliday sketch book.

Eifel Mountains Germany

We spent our family holliday this year in Germany, more specific in the Vulcan Eifel Mountains near Daun. It's a beautiful region, we did some nice walks there.  We mostly had (very) good weather, so relaxing by and swimming in one of the Vulcan lakes was also on our program.  I made some nice tiles there in a lovely summer-sketchbook, and I publish them here as a reminder to our Holliday.

Hathi and other animals

A while ago I discovered the templates of Ben Kwok he publishes weekly in the Ornation Creation Facebook group.  Facebook Ornation Creation.  The published templates are lovely to zentangle.    You can also find a photo gallery with results of other tanglers there. Mostly it are templates about animals, and I selected a few of them to create some nice tiles for my children.

The Elephant (#048) for my oldest daughter, who's scouting name is Hathi.

A horse (#022) for my youngest daughter, she still is in her horse-period...  It was an experiment with colour  pencils, but I prefer black & white overall.

And also a rabbit (#003)for her, because she received a real rabbit to nurse for last month.  She gave him the name Nestor.

The squirell (#006) I liked very much, so I made that one for myself

And at last the Dachshund (#170).  Not an easy one this, I had to try it two times before I could publish the result.  The first dog was really ugly, but this one I'm pleased with.

 

And you can see, my shading has improved !

Challenges Square One July 2016

The challenges of this summer month:

week 1: Brrst
A new pattern, and I saw some faces in it.

week 2: Cornerz
That's also a new one for me.  A very nice pattern to experiment with, I'll surely use this again.

week 3: B-Dylan
I did participate to this challenge, but as I used colour in it, I could not publish it in the Square One facebook group.  Instead, it was in fact a tile for the Diva Challenge.  But I'll give it here anyway.

And then I made another one with B-dylan.

week 4: Echoism
A pattern I already know for a long time, so always nice to use it again and try something different.  

Here with Antidots. 

Round in circles

For the Diva Challenge #277 with the theme 'round in circles' I used Striping.  And finally I could make the tile of which I made a sketch already a while ago.  I saw it on TV as the background of The Voice singing contest.  Really zen to create this one.

B-Dylan for Give Peace A Chance

Marvelous pattern this week as the focus of Square One: B-Dylan. Excellent to use for the Diva challenge #275 Give Peace A Chance. 

For Dallas

For Nice

For all the other victims of terrorism and violence this last period. 

Challenges Square one May-June 2016

I'm a bit behind in posting the tiles I made for the Square One Pure Zentangle facebookgroup.  They hang out in my kitchen, but I did not yet have time to publish something on my blog. I'll try to dot it now.

May week1 - Ruutz
It already seems a long time ago.  I made two tiles with Ruutz, the second one with a more rounded end and better shading.

May week 2: Batumber
A new tangle to me, and a very nice one.  I tried to make it in some circles and I like my result.

May week 3 - Fugu
Not one of my favorites, but I tried it anyway

May week 4 - IX
I did not participate this week


May week 5 - Bales
Yes, an old one to me.  One of the first I learned, and I still like it and use it a lot

June week 1 - Bales
Still Bales, so a good oppurtunity to use this tangle again and to make something new with it.  Yes, great result !

June week 2 & 3 - Rundle & Groovy
Thinking of football in not hard during the European Championship is France, so my Rundle ended up in (foot)balls.
And Groovy is also a pattern I already know for a long time and gives it a nice background.

June week 4 - Merryweather
We in Belgium hope sincerely better weather is coming...