My first Tangle pattern notebook

Oef ! ! I finally finished my first tangle pattern notebook with step outs.  I used a Moleskine notebook with squares to put in the patterns I already learned and used in a tile.  I was introduced to zentangle about a year ago, and after a short time I felt the need to have a reference of my patterns, so I started to put them in a notebook.  There are 93 patterns in my book, not bad for one year !  And I made an alphabetic register at the back.  It is a really good help when I'm looking for a pattern while I'm drawing. Mostly I used the tanglepatterns.com site for learning and seeking new patterns.  There is a link on the right side of my blog to this site.

My eldest daughter pimped the front cover with some nice looking tape - because the kitten had bitten in it in the beginning, and there were some tooth marks it it :(.  But now I like it again.  She already pimped my second notebook I'm going to start with some other tape. It will take a while I guess before that one will be finished.

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.

Arukas for the Diva challenge #197

This week's challenge #197 is to use Arukas in your tile.  It was a new pattern for me, so first some practice.  I could go for it quietly on sunday afternoon.  The youngest stays at my family for one night and the oldest is studying, so... time for me to tangle !
Here is my tile in which I combined Arukas with Indy-Rella (Square One 's challenge of this week) and Tipple and hmm... I like the result.  I hope you too.

At the same time, I'm working on some christmas project, or better New Years project but I don't want to post any of it yet.  Must be a surprise for Januari 1st.  If I don't post that much on my blog you know why.  So... some patience !

Assunta bees

Two tiles with Assunta for the challenge of the past week of the facebook group Square One.  I especially like the first one.  Open space and the patterns Assunta and Flux nicely next to each other.  To me it are just little bees or some other flying insects.

In this one I used Assunta with C-scape and some form of Yincut

Momorial flowers and ING

Since October and November in Belgium was all about momorials and remembering WWI, it was a lot in my head too.  Especially because we gave two momorial concerts one in the beginning of November, and one at the end.  Two different locations and also two different choral groups and programs to perform but twice momorial songs with some memorial flowers. Everyone had to put a  little poppy on there (black) clothes, to have a nice homogeneaus group on stage. 

On the last concert we had to wait about tree hours (!) before we could perform, and fortunately I had  my scetch book with me.  I started a zentangle with some simple poppies and some strings. Then I saw the challenge on the facebook group ' Square One: Purely Zentange' to use ING and shading this week.  I took my momorial tile again to finish and ING just fits into it.  Don't you think so ?

And here our memorial poppy

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 !

A quick Betweed

Diva challenge #191: a quick Betweed ... in between intensive choral rehearsals, extremely good weather for 1 november and some concerts.

circles in circles

On a lazy Saturday, I was practicing some new patterns and regarding the many beautiful and inspiring examples on the internet.  As my daughter was around, she said to me she likes to draw circels - 'it's so fascinating'.  So I asked her to draw some circels for me and she made me two drawings.  One with random circels, and the other circels-in-circels.  Very nice, now I could start to fill them with the patterns. I especially liked a new pattern I learned called Yew-dee, which is another nice variation on Bales. I used it in my two zentangles. Some other patterns I used ard Yincut, Paradox, Chill-on, Phicops, Zazzle, Queens crown, Diva dance etc. Hope you like the results too !

Mooka II series

And finally, I finished this weekend the series of Mooka that I started during our holidays.  I love the Mooka that much, and I wanted to make a series of it.  So during our holidays, I made different sketches of it, but never had the time to work them out properly.  So this weekend, I finially finished the last ones.  Some of them look like Mooka Family's, some others are just nice looking Mooka's.


Mooka with Sandwirl, Groovy and Knightsbridge

Mooka with patterns flutter, undling, squid, cadans

Mooka in stones

Mooka Yin/yang

Mooka around Pavonia

Birth and Mooka Family

In the period I was trying out the pattern Mooka, my niece gave birth to a little baby girl.  I wanted to send her a handmade birth card, since I was full of drawing tangles.  The Mooka was just perfect to make a nice card of it.  I call it my little Mooka Family with three mooka-strings in it.  Just enough for a new family.  And the pregnant belly just peeps out of the border on the right...

(creation date 26/6/2014)

Breathe

One of my favorite zentangles I made for Jorinde, my physiotherapist.  A while ago, I sufferd from chronic hyperventilation and I went to a physiotherapist for a few months.  And she learned me to breathe again.  There was one excercice I had to repeat and repeat over and over again, and it inspired me to make a zentangle of it.  Sitting on a chair... breath in - move forward, breath out and relax - move backwards.  And after two months, I felt much better ! Thank you Jorinde.  I put it on my blog, so I should never forget how to breathe in an easy, relaxed way.

This is what I made of it, and I gave the tile to Jorinde on my last session.