Finishing up with Ruutz

Finishing Up With Ruutz

A collage of the pieces I managed to do this week

 I’ve had to sneak in tangle time between hospital visits this week and will need to do so for the following few weeks, possibly longer.  My MIL was diagnosed with breast cancer and it has been an exhausting series of appointments and tests and operation prep.

I still managed to get a few tiles in here and there. I was hoping to do Ruutz video, but just haven’t had the time or energy.  But here we have few tiles to finish up the Ruutz week. 

As you can tell, my mind wasn’t really with it, as I began shading just before the before- pic was taken. But hey, kudos to me for remember at all, lol.

Fun little sepia ruutz tile



Ruutz zentangle sepia

This one was a little more complicated,  here is the before pic a few minutes after I started shading - woopsies

And the final piece all shaded and pretty and schtuff



Ruutz zentangle shaded

And here is all of the ruutz tiles I managed to pull off over the weekly challenge



Ruutz and Crux (Sounds like a crime-fighting team)

Double the Challenge, Double the Fun (yet again)

Ruutz and Crux (Sounds like a crime-fighting team)

 



crux and ruutz zentangle shaded

This week Eni challenged us on her Shading Zentangle Facebook page with her own Ruutz pattern.  At the same time, The Diva challenged us with the Zentangle pattern Crux.  It took a little creative thinking to figure out how to combine these two designs, but I’m pretty pleased with what I worked out.

First I had to practice the Crux design.  I’d already done two previous tiles with Ruutz, but Crux was new to me. 

Here is my first Crux Zentangle Pattern tile.  Kinda pretty eh? Changing the widths of the “petal” and lines can really alter this pattern.

Crux Zentangle Shaded

Then it was on to the double challenge.  Ruutz is a pretty busy pattern on its own, and so is Crux, but I think I made it work. (Patting myself on the back while tooting my own horn and high-fiving myself caused some minor injuries, but fret not, I shall recover)

Here’s the tile before shading:

 

And the final piece! (Forgive the photo quality, it was overcast here today)

2nd Attempt at Ruutz

2nd Attempt at Ruutz

Again working with Eni Oken’s Ruutz Zentangle pattern. This time I DID plan the center design.  I’m not sure if you can see the faded pencil line behind one of the star-lines, I was attempting to do drop-shading there but just couldn’t get it right, so I erased it.  Le sigh.  One of these days I’ll get it right.

Yes again I forgot a before pic.  Something about this tangle makes you want to jump right into the shading.

Maybe I’ll remember for the “double challenge” I’ll be embarking on tomorrow.

Stay tuned!

First Attempt at Ruutz Zentangle

First attempt at Ruutz



Ruutz Zentangle Shaded

The Ruutz Zentangle was created by Eni Oken.  The step-out pattern can be found here.  This pattern took a little getting used to, but is fairly simple once you grasp the concept.

I didn’t plan for the leaf pattern… err.. I mean Yes! I planned that leaf pattern and it turned out just as I expected! (I so did not plan the leaf the pattern… sigh.) 

 Because this pattern is so busy, I think the white space works nicely.

 Totally forgot the before pic.