Evolution

I started with Zentangle in april 2014, and took the time this week to look to my earliest tiles.  That's the Diva Challenge of this week (#255): 'go back into your own archives and recreate a tile from your past with your present style.'

My first tile was on an ordinary sketch book page, with an ordinary black writingpen I had in the house.  I did not have any material yet, but I loved it right a way.  After a few weeks, I went to a store and baught me some better drawing paper, so I could make tiles of 3,5" and some better and thinner black pens.   And I learned about the material after I followed my first zentangle basic course given by CZT Rita Nikolajeva in Brussels. 

My first tile was with the Auraknot pattern , and I made it again in my present style.Whow, what a difference ! And I'm only practicing for a year and a half.  I hope it's the same for you all.

Present Style:

My first tyle:

Moving boxes

Nice Diva challenge this week (#236), "Tangle on some object you would normally not tangle on".  What should I take, a picture out of a magazine, another thee cup, something of the children... I look around in our living room, and then I know it ! Our living room (and other rooms) is at the moment full of moving boxes, because we start renovating it next week and we have to empty the whole living room.  Also quite a challenge !

So I started tangling on a moving box.  Quite different from tangling on a tile.  The patterns have to be bigger, and a steady hand is needed.  I started friday evening while the childeren where looking another 'K3 is looking for K3' and I finished it yesterday.  My youngest asked if she could have the box afterworths to put in her room with some stuff.  "Because it is to beautiful to throw it away, mam".  I hope you like it too !

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.

Challenges April square one

I really enjoied the Square One challenges of this month.

Week one: Nipa
Trying out some dewdrops

Week two: Fanz
My first renaissance tile

Week three: Jetties
First I did Jetties and meringue
And it inspired me to another Jetties with only circels: Cirquital, Crescent Moon, Betweed, Fat man

Week four: Diva dance

I combined Diva dance with barberpole and BB and added some black. And I got some very nice reactions on this one !

Valentangle challenge #204

Oh yes, the Diva challenge this week has to do with valentine of course.  It is called a valentangle, and you can use the patterns you wish.

I made mine with the Trio pattern, beause I always found it looking like a heart.  I added a string with heartline to it, and put some variation of Crescent Moon around it.  I think it's one of my better ones ! I put it in a nice envelope and gave it to my husband this morning.  Little valentine surprise... and he liked it very much.

Alle the other tiles posted for this challenge you can find here on the Diva website: valentangles

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.

Yuma challenge #189

The Diva challenge of this week is to use YUMA in your tile.  So for me a challenge to learn a new pattern.  A quick look at tanglepatterns.com and I can start.  And oh yes,  on wednesday there are already many beautiful examples on the Diva site weekly-challenge-189.html so inspiration enough to make my own tile :).

On the patterns site I came also across the pattern Crescent Moon, and I used that in my tile in combination with Yuma and a little Diva Dance flower.  It did not take that long to make a nice zentangle with these patterns, and I made another one with a variation of Yuma.  I filled the space between all the lines, and I also filled the leaves.  Looks nice to me !

The third tile I publish here is a tile I made for a challenge of some weeks ago "draw a string with your eyes closed, and fill it with patterns". I didn't have time to finish is then and I added Yuma and Crescent Moon to it today.  Little shading and finished now.