Tuesday 29 November 2016

Cubine Grid Zentangle


Cubine Grid Zentangle


 

The Diva’s Challenge last week (yeah I’m a bit behind) was to do a grid tangle.  I decided on Cubine, since I hadn’t played with it very much in the past.  They look like windows, right? Well, when I looked outside it was sn*w!ng.  (That’s a curse word in my household).  So this is what I came up with:

 

 
Cubine zentangle
Cubine Zentangle

 

Line work before shading and detail:




On a side note, for the life of me it forever to find the name of this tangle.  I'm guessing after the hours of searching, it'll be stuck in my brain for all of eternity.


Rainking and Meo



Rainking and Meo

Eni Oken set up the challenge to use the Rainking Zentangle in a piece.  I had a hard time staring out with this one.  Looks easy, sure, but mine weren’t exactly popping into place.  So I took a different route with it and added some Meo into the piece as well. 

 

This is my before piece:



 

This is the finished piece:



 

I’ll need to revisit this one another time.

Thursday 17 November 2016

Keeko Zentangle for the Diva Challenge

Keeko Zentangle for the Diva Challenge


Keeko Zentangle on Distress Ink Background
Keeko Zentangle on Distress Ink Background


This week's Diva Challenge was to use Linda Farmer's tangle "Keeko".  I didn't take any before pics since my camera was busy making this video. Hope you enjoy!












Playing with Distress Inks

Playing with Distress Inks



Loving the Distress inks so much that I thought I'd share a video on how I use them.  Hope you enjoy :)








Wednesday 16 November 2016

Zentangle with Distress Inks


Zentangle with Distress Inks


First Zentangle Tile with Distress Inks
First Zentangle Tile with Distress Inks


 

This is my first attempt as using distress inks for my background. I love, love, LOVE it! So much fun! I didn’t use the mister-effect because I was anxious to get started on the tangling right away, so I didn’t care to wait for it to dry.  I plan on doing a whole lot more with these distress inks so stay tuned!

 

For this piece I went with a little Helen Williams style for the tangle, I wanted something that would flow and allow me to shade in different tones.  I used a regular tile, distress inks, micron .1 and .05, a gold prismacolor pencil crayon, a white prismacolor pencil crayon and a white jelly roll.  **Note: White pencil crayon just lightens and blends, does not work as white exactly on top of the distress ink.

 

No before pics as I got carried away  J

Tuesday 15 November 2016

Fassett Zentangle

Fassett Zentangle

 
This isn’t the first time I’ve used the Fassett Zentangle, it was once the weekly Diva challenge but it had been a while.  Eni Oken posted the Fassett Zentangle pattern as the challenge for the week and this is what I came up with.  I wanted the holes to look more like…well, holes.  But all in all it didn’t turn out too shabby. At least the Fassett part of the tile works!
 
Line art:

Fassett Zentangle before shading
Fassett Zentangle before shading

 
Finished piece:


 


Fassett Zentangle
Fassett Zentangle

Friday 11 November 2016

Eaxy Zentangle

Eaxy Zentangle



The Eaxy Zentangle was the Diva’s challenge this week.  It took a little harder to get used to than I expected.  A few tiles were chucked out while I tried to get the hang of this Eaxy.  Also included Eni Oken's Ruutz.
 
Check out the Diva’s challenge here
Check out Nadine Roller’s Eaxy step-out here
 
Line work before pic:
 
eaxy zentangle line work
eaxy zentangle line work


After shading:




eaxy zentangle shaded
eaxy zentangle shaded

Wednesday 9 November 2016

Grey Cloudy Smudging with Trelina Zentangle


Grey Cloudy Smudging with Trelina Zentangle


 



I smudged this tile first with grey pencil crayons (cloudy smudging tutorial here). Then I did the final in my piece in my Trelina training.  I think I’ve got it down now, and figure I’ll be using it quite a lot in future projects. Thanks again to Eni Oken for her amazing pattern(s) and all of the wonderful things she does for the tangling and doodling community.

 

There is no before pic, because as you can see, my camera was being used to record the video below.  Hope you enjoy!



Tuesday 8 November 2016

Cloudy Smudging Technique for Tile Backgrounds

Cloudy Smudging Technique for Tile Backgrounds


Trelina and Skye on Cloudy Smudging background
Trelina and Skye on Cloudy Smudging background

 
There are a bunch of techniques for creating interesting backgrounds for zentangles and doodles.  Watercolors, distress inks, etc.  Here’s a really cheap and easy way to make a funky background. 
I got the idea from my grade 8 art teacher, it's one of the few things I remember from that class.  Turns out it came to good use many (many, many, many,) years later.

All you need is: 

  • A tile or piece of paper
  • A cheap pair of scissors
  • Cheap pencil crayons (in the video I used crayola, not using my prismacolors for this)
  • Tissue
Use the scissors to grate the nib of the pencil crayon onto your tile.  When you have a nice little pile of shavings, use the tissue to color the tile.  I cover my index finger with a good wad of the tissue and use circular motions to cloud up the tile.

You can use the tile right away to tangle or doodle on.

TIP:  My best tip with this method is to use the colors you clouded your tile with to shade and color your final piece.

 

Here’s a finished tile I did with the Trelina pattern and Skye. 




 

Enjoy the video, I hope it gives you some ideas to create!

Monday 7 November 2016

Another Trelina

Another Trelina

 
Yay! I got to play with my new grey tones tiles! Woohoo! And of course, since I’m still working on the Trelina tangle, I incorporated into the piece.  Lots of fun shading on the grey tiles, was able to use a white pencil crayon and really make that white pop (though the pic doesn't do it justice).

 

Gonna post these in reverse…

 

First the finished tile


Trelina zentangle after shading
Trelina zentangle after shading


 

Here’s the before shading tile

Trelina zentangle before shading
Trelina zentangle before shading


 

 

And here are the materials I used to make this piece