Shnek Zentangle 1st attempt

Shnek Zentangle 1st attempt



Shnek Zentangle Shaded

This is my first attempt at the Shnek zentangle, and will be a contribution to Eni’s Mosaic project.  Once you get your groove ging with this tangle it’s a lot of fun.  I’m already looking forward to working it into the Diva’s spring has sprung challenge and may have come up with a variation for it.  It has inspired lots of ideas for tiles for the week!

It means I’m slacking on my mega project, but when the muse hits, you gotta pay attention and take advantage.

Pretty basic before pic:

Added fillers and started shading before I remembered to snap a pic

Finished with shading!

He's a Fungi!

He’s a Fungi!

I have no idea what possessed me to draw up this little guy, but I love how he turned out. He was a first attempt, and I’m sure they’ll be improvements on my next go at him.  The shading in the smaller mushrooms is my favourite part of this piece.  I may just do a whole sheet of different mushrooms at some point, they are a load of fun to color in.



Mushroom Zentangle Forest

No before pics, sadly, as I was just screwing around with this piece as it came together.

I think he needs a name...

Peachy Akoya Zentangle

Peachy Akoya



Peachy Akoya Zentangle

I’m still practicing the Akoya Zentangle, I still haven’t quite gotten it down to the point of it being automatic. So with this piece I just started with a cross section of akoya.  Then I added some spheres, then some lines, then more lines and somehow or other it turned itself into this peach like looking thing.  It wasn’t at all the plan, and the color came from getting a bit of bbq sauce on the tile, so I needed to cover that up – end results? Peachy goodness!

Tree of Life on Tile

Tree of Life on Tile



Tree of Life on Tile

I’m working on a larger piece of this tree of life when I’m not trying out tangles and doing challenges.  I just love her. I need to find a way to make her pop a little more, so will be practicing the smaller versions for a while.

I used prismacolor pencil crayons, copic grey markers and micron pens (different sizes).

3D Metallic Triangle and Zonked

Double the challenge, double the fun!

The Diva’s challenge this week was to use some sort of metallic.  Eni’s challenge was to use one of two patterns, I chose zonked.  Put the two together, and voila! A fun tile!

3D Metallic Triangle and Zonked

You can view my super-easy-to-follow 3D triangle step-out here. 

Maryhill… sort of

Maryhill… sort of

 

I did the Maryhill zentangle (post is here), and loved the contrast in the shading so much that I did this tile to play with the pattern a bit. I used the same concept as the Maryhill but played around with the actual design.  I like the end result, and of course, I completely forgot the before and after pic. 

 

No worries, I took like 5 or 6 pics of the process of my current WIP. Go me!!

 

Maryhill Zentangle... sort of

Note to self and others: this pattern is a lot easier to follow in the actual Maryhill pattern.  The different angles get confusing.

Second attempt at Verve

I received some tips from the amazing Eni Oken after my first attempt at Verve and shading Verve.  She suggested I go from using a shading pencil to a 2b pencil and here is the results.

Before Shading:

 

After Shading:

Verve with shading

Here are the 2 pictures I posted before, my originals on Verve that I used a shading pencil on, then switched to a black pencil crayon because the shading pencil wasn't doing the trick.



Before Shading



After Shading