Black, white and red

The Diva challenge this week (#272) is to make a tile using black, white and red.  Laura had accidentally picked up her red Micron, instead of the black one, and so she finished her tile with these colours. And she turned her 'mistake' into a challenge - remember no mistakes in zentangle ! It was a nice challenge for me. I make rarely a couloured tile, but now for this challenge is was easy because you only had to use red as an extra colour.  And I payed special attention to my shading here. Here are the patterns I used: Tripoli, Printemps, Sandswirl, Meer, Pea-Nuckle, Pozer, Antidots, Tipple.

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.

 

Moebius in hearts

The Diva challenge #201 this week is to use the Moebius Syndrome Foundation's logo.

Saterday, January 24, was the  Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day. Artoo, Laura's youngest son is born with this syndrome. You can read more about it on her blog

I filled the string with Chartz, Tipple, Static and  Paradox in the middle.  At first I did not know what to use for the background.  Then I thought about Laura, Artoo... and being a mother. So I put some heartline in the background, for all those people with Moebius Syndrome and who are being loved by someone.

Challenge #199 Hitch

The Diva Challenge #199 for this week is to use HITCH, an UMT (Use My Tangle) of HeidiSue.  I tried Hitch on a piece of paper, and oops... little mistake on drawing the bows.  Hmm, that looks also nice !  So here is my Hitch, with a little variation on the bows.

The diamands made me think of Knightsbridge, so I added that to my tile.  And I used also Flux, Tipple and Diva Dance in the tile.

Chainging in Square One

I am a member now of the Square One Purely Zentangle group on Facebook.  I realy like the intention of that group.  Only 'basic' zentangles are to be posted. Meaning: 3,5"x3,5" white tile, only black pen and pencil for shadow (and strings of course).  So back to basics.  It's a good way to focus on the patterns  itself and to see what you really can do on a tile of the original format.  People are making the most beautiful zentangles !  And it's a real inspiration source to me.

Here are my tiles with the patterns Chainging and Punzel, the focus for this week.
My best tile is here: Punzel, Flux and Tipple.  In Spring, I made a sketch of a huge plant near the swimming pool of De Nekker, but I did not yet know any patterns to make of nice zentangle of it.  And now, after learning Punzel and Flux I could transform my sketch in a nice tile !

And here are my earlier tiles of this week, where I still had to learn the pattern.
Tile with Chainging and Betweed (and surely a better one than I posted last week for the Diva Challenge of Betweed)

Tile with Punzel and Ennies:

And ... thank you all for all comments I already received on my blog posts.  It's always nice to read and it keeps me going !