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

Colouring, my new drive

As I see such beautiful colored tiles on the internet, I decided to try it myself.  I bought a nice box of pencils (Coloursoft pencils Derwint).  A bit expensive, but what a fun to use them.  I started with some simple tiles, prepared with watercolour pencils.  Then adding my patterns, and then colouring and shaded using the coloursoft pencils.

... and  I also learned that 'color' as well as 'colour' exists. Just depends where you live or what you learned at school :)

So here are my coloured tiles.  I recently bought the (internet) book of Eni Oken '3D Tangle: Vibrant color shading' and learn a lot out of it.  https://enioken.com/3dtangle/color-shading

 I hope I still can improve my colouring skills.

Coffee, Tea or me

Oh what a nice Diva Challenge this week ! (#312).  Spoil some coffee or tea on your tile, and let this be your string to tangle.

And as I am in my color period right now, here is my nice tile.  I'm very pleased with the result.  I'm still learning how to color and shade using the book of Eni Oken '3D Tangle Virbrant color shading'.  It's a wonderful book and I learn a lot ! I only used three 'tea'-colors in my tile.





My starting tile with tea

With a few patterns now

Square One Purely Zentangle: Focus March 2017

Stressful month behind us ! My mother in law was in hospital twice these last two months, she's 83years old and  not capable anymore to look after herself.  At the end of this month we had to bring her to an elderly nursery as she is always confused and forgets a lot.   It was not an option for her to 'go home' again. Not a pleasant experience, because she does not wanted to go there.  We try to visit her as often as we can, but yet it is not easy.

I tried to set my mind on the weekly focus to cope with this.  I post my tiles of March here.

week 1: For Fin

Week 2: MI2

Week 3: Nuwave
Nice pattern, remands me of barberpole - one of my favourites.

Week 4: Pico
Oh, I love this one.  I'll surely use it again in my tiles.

Square One Purely Zentangle: focus February 2017

Week 1: Neuron
Nice pattern ! I'll surely use it again.

Week 2: Flowerly
Flowerly and valentine nicely going together.

Week 3: Trio
Trio is a pattern I already know for some time now, but I don't use it very often.  So now an opportunity to make a nice tile with it.

Week 4: Yew-Dee
I like Yew-Dee, and I already used it a lot.  Now I looked for some patterns that start with the same basic strokes as Bales and ...

Square One Purely Zentangle - focus January 2017

Another year started well ! The Square One focus continues every week, and I try to participate as much as I can.  It’s a nice and easy way of relaxing in the evening.  So here we go with my tiles I created in January.

Week 1: Icanthis

Week 2: Paushalov

A nice spiral tangle, lots of fun while using it.

Week 3: Lollywimple

What a nice name for a tangle ! I used it together with printemps in my tile.

Week 4: Mak-Rah-Mee
Oh, I made a lot of Makramee when I was a teenager. Mostly bracelets for friends but also other things.  So a lovely pattern with nice memories.

Week 4: Bucky

Hmmm … not one of my favorites.  It reminds me to much of a bad character in a Flemish TV series ('Het Eiland').  Although it was a humoristic series, Bucky’ s role in it was very dubious.  I just couldn’t stand him.

Paradox and Diva Dance for Diva Challenge #301

Yes, two lovely patterns in a duo tangle for this weeks Diva Challenge.  Paradox and Diva Dance are two of my favorites, so here are the tiles I made for this challenge #301.

I suffered a whole month with a bad vision, I changed my ordinary lenses into multifocal lenses - so I should not use a reading glasses any more to make my drawings.  But, not a great a success in the beginning !!  My eyes have to adapt to the new lenses, for reading and for looking far away.  I hope in another month it will be all right again, so I can continue to zentangle with a good and clear focus !