Butterflies

Last week I went to the zoo of Antwerp with my daughter. She loves to visit the butterflies garden there. Beautiful moments to take a break there en make some zentangles. Here a picture out of my sketchbook. 

Zenbutton

I saw some very beautiful zenbuttons on facebook/instagram by Eni Oken and decided to try it myself.  Not that easy in the beginnening, but some nice results now !  It was also an excercice for working with colour and white pencil/white gelpen. 

I like the red and the blue/green one the most.

And the coloured ones..

Alma

Last weekend my little niece Alma did her solemn communion. I made her this beautiful zentangle card, inbeded in a picture of the famous painter Mondriaan.  The picture was an extra within the weekend newspaper, and is part of the project 'Big art for little people'; a project to encourage children to discover famous artworks. 

She was very very pleased with my card, as she herself is an 'art-girl'.

Animals with Ornation Creation templates

The last year I continued to create some zentangle animals with the templates of Ben Kwok, published on the Ornation Creation facebook pages.
I 'm proud on the results I achieved and give them all here.

Fotube and Verve

My tile  this week is a combination of the Square One Pure Zentangle Focus (Fotube) and the Diva Challenge #355 (Verve).  I used one of my distressed tiles in blue for it.  I like the result !

Bookmarks

I made some nice bookmarks this week.  I haven't posted for a while, because I suffor with my eyes for a few months now and have a lot of trouble working on the computer.  But fortunately I can still zentangle and this is a good way for me now to cope with the stress of my eyes.

I'll try to post more tiles as soon as my eyes get better.  Next week I  go to the hospital for an examination.  I hope they can find what is wrong and my eyes get better quickly then.

Christmas/New Year wishes

To everyone my best Christmas - and New Year wishes !  The Diva Challenge this week #345 is to create a happy holidays or a wish card.  It' s the last weekly challenge of Laura Harms of 2017.

Last week, I made a very nice 'star' tile on distressed paper with some red and gold markers.  I'm realy fond of it, and my husband made some beautiful Christmas/New Year cards of it we can send to our family and close friends.  And the design of this star comes out of one of Ben Kwok's mandala templates.

I'm a bit behind in posting my tiles of October and November, because I had to change the app on my Iphone for posting my tiles.  But I'll post them later this month :)

Square one focus: September 2017

October and it's  already my birthday today ! I did not yet post my tiles of September, so I'll quickly do it now.

Week 1:  BTL Joos

Week 2: Fleave
Here together with Pepper.

Week 3: African Artist
A nice tile in colour here.

And in Black-White together with Drupe.

Pixoze 4: Pixioze
Just out of my sketchbook: Pixioze and African Artist.

Square One Focus: August 2017

I do not have a finished tile for all the Square One Focusses of August.  Still holidays for the kids, so plenty of other things to do.  But I made some beautiful probes in my little sketchbook though.  So, I'll publish them here, with some finished tiles I already published on the facebook group.


1. Flovine

2. Scute

3. Abukas

4. Hakrall

And a finished one;

5. Ballenchain
Experiment with blue/green background made with watercolour pencils and a blue pen.

Diva Dance - Diva Challenge #327

This Diva challenge came just in time: no kids at home and no good weather.  So plenty of time to make a nice tile.

And as I like the Diva Dance a lot, this came out...

Slovenia Summer Holiday

We spend our summer holidays in Slovenia this year.  What a beautiful country, full of nature and friendly people.  And the beautiful blue/green soca river ! We had a great time hiking, enjoying the mountains and waterfalls, resting and swimming  near the Soca river and others, visiting some restaurants etc.  I made some drawings during our holliday there, but no zentangle tiles in July.



On our way in Germany - Weyarn: beautiful little church

Vintgar Gap - my favorite drawing

Oh yes, I did make one tile using ...

Javorca church interior

Square One Pure Zentangle: focus June 2017

Oh wow,  we are already June 30th.  Our eldest daughter graduated from secondary school last Monday and she had her first 'prom' on Wednesday.  Very lovely to see them all together there, being 18 and laughing and making fun.

Time to look back to the focus of June !

Week 1: Dreamdex
Not that easy, I struggle a bit with the basic grid.  But it becomes easier when I let it go...  I made it with paradox in the middle, but it didn't turn out very well.  I like the background more than the center.

Week 2: Puffin
I decided to make a colored one of this.With a little Henna Drum and Dreamdex in the corners.

Week 3: Showgirl
Oh I like this one !

Week 4: Struts
I did not do this one, too busy...


Week 4: Flez
I made a zentangled 'A' with Flez for my youngest daughter.  She wants to use it as a background for her mobile.

Square One purely zentangle: Focus april - may 2017

Oh, oh, time passes so quickly.  Already two months further, and I had no time to post any of my tiles.  Many things happen in my live right now, so not much time to focus on the Focus Square One :)  Lots of visits to my mother-in-law, looking for a room ('kot' in Flemish) for the oldest who starts at university in October, the children's examination arriving, preparing our summer holiday etc.

Anyway, here are my tiles I made in April and May.

April week 1 - Y-Ful Power
Makes me always think of Y-For, the little place in Wales were we spent our holidays 2 years ago.

April week 2: Joki
A favorite !

April week 3: Weben
no time !

April week 4: Funbee
What a fun tangle, easy to use and lots of possibilities.

May week 1: Lily's Tangles
Sad news about Lily Moon's daughter.  I think a lot at her, because the tiles of Lily are really fabulous and very inspiring to me.
I used Cloudfall and Lealed.

May week 2: Balo

A made a Balo ribbon for the front page of a paper of my daughter. 

May week 3: Paizel
Paizel and a variation on Lazy Eight.

May week 4: Signalz