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:

Valentangle

February 14th today, Valentine...

The Diva Challenge #254 is to create a Valentangle, using hearts, red,...   Time to learn some hearts-patterns, so  I used the Heartswell, Heartline, Heartvine in my piece next to Nymph flowers.  I made it a 'renaissance' tile, only using black, white, red and brown on tan paper. 

I gave it to my husband, and he was flattered with it !

Chalenges Square One January 2016

Time goes quick ! It's already February 9sth, and I still have to post my tiles of January.  Here there are.

Week one: Umble

I still had a tile with a nice border of Verve, and I used it now to fill it with Umble.

Week two: Henna Drum

I love this tangle ! 

Week tree: Pokeleaf

A tangle I already know for a long time. I tried something different here with it.

Week four: Pepper
That's a nice pattern.  It's new to me, but I immediately love it.  I was just learning Coil when this focus came up, so you can see both in my tile.

Tangle within a tangle - Diva challenge #252

HIt's a while ago that I participated to the Diva Challenge, but this week it was such a nice challenge that I simply could not resist it.  The challenge is to 'tangle within a tangle ... like an inception'.  What should I take for a tangle... I dit not have to think long about it.  Cadent ofcourse, one of my fovourites from the beginning.  And is has such nice circles in it, just perfect to practice my gems-technique.  I hope you all like it !

And here the link to the Diva site where you can see the posts of all other tanglers:
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Gems

As I saw many beautiful zentangles with gems in it during the Christmas hollidays, I also wanted to give it a try.  It wasn't that difficult after all, and fun to learn a new technique.  And I could use my colours ! Here you see my results - I am especially fond of the blue one.

Winterland Hasselt

We always try to make a day trip with the family during the Christmas hollidays.  It's always nice to do something together in a relaxed way, we all enjoy these days.  Last year we visited the China Zoo project in the Antwerp Zoo.  You can find a post of it on my blog.
This year we decided to visit Winterland in Hasselt.  We visited the town first in the afternoon and did some shopping, and in the evening we went to Winterland.  It was a nice and beautiful Christmas Market with lots of attractions, beautiful stalls and lights and yummy food.

My husband took a formidable family picture in a kind of superlarge Christmass ball full of light.  You can see the picture down here.  It inspired me to make a zentangle of it.  Nice, isn't it ?  I used the patterns Narwal and Ahh for it.

And here is the picture.

Challenges Square One December

Already the last week of another year.  I am tangling now for about a year and a half, and I still love it.

Week one: Steps
A new pattern to me, and I like it very much.  Plenty of possibilities for variatons.

Week two: Drupe
Oh, I love this one !

Week three:WUD
This is a tangle I know.  I already used it a lot in my tiles, but without knowing it was WUD I used.  Here I combined it with Arukas and Undling

Week four: Ixorus
Nearly Christmas, and we already put the Christmas tree in our living room.  Always a nice family moment with the children.  So I decided to make a tile with a tree and a sepertine in it for this challenge.