First Attempt at B’Dylan Zentangle

First Attempt at B’Dylan Zentangle

 

“The answers m’friend, are blowing in the wind…” 

 

Love, love, LOVE this new tangle pattern!  Easy and fun!  The shading is a little tricky, and I’m not sure if I nailed it, but I’m so very happy with the rest of the shading in this piece.

 

For the first time, I use a “light source”.  Usually I just shade my zentangles based loosely on the light coming from above.  Keep in mind, drawing in general is not in my nature, or wasn’t for the first 37 years of my life.  Until Zentangle came into my life, I didn’t have an artistic bone in my body. 

 

But here! On this tile! I used the light source coming from the somewhat upper right and I think I may have actual done okay! Yay me!

 

So here is the before pic, as you can see I started to shade before remembering to take the before pic.

B'Dylan zentangle before shading

 

And here is the final piece!

B'Dylan zentangle shaded



Feeling Flux’ed

Feeling Flux’ed

I just had the urge to flux! After my adventures with the Skye Zentangle I started on a larger project… then I wanted that quick fix of a completed tile and since I was feeling a little “KerFLUXed” I figured flux was the way to go. 

I really didn’t have any type of plan on this one – just the urge to flux and away I went. 

Here’s my before shading tile – looks like a bunch of lines really.



flux zentangle before shading

After I shaded it took form but still felt a little lost…



flux zentangle after shading

Then after the shading and adding some background it still didn’t pop. Flux me. *snickersnort* So I added a pop of colour to the bubbles and this is my final piece.  It turned out fluxin’ awesome in my not-so-humble opinion J



flux zentangle

Peace of Art

Peace of Art

 

The Diva’s challenge for the week was to produce a peace-themed piece.  It’s been a sad week.  Not a lot of peace around these days.

 

Stop the hate.

Make peace.

Be kind to yourself.

Be kind to the earth.

Be kind to others. 

It all sounds so simple, yet… 

 

Before Pic.

 

After Pic.



All Things Skye Zentangle

All Things Skye Zentangle

 

The Skye Zentangle was created by Margaret Bremner and she really gets all of the credit here.  What an amazing pattern to create! 

I had a tough time getting the hang of this tangle. Hence the obsession with it and multiple Skye tiles/pieces.  I might have gotten a wee bit carried away on this one, but when I love a pattern, I want to get it right, and I want to learn it in a way that it will become second nature for me to draw it up on the spot.   

There are probably many different approaches to this tangle.  This video gives you the basics you need to get started.

 

 Changing the size of the loops and the longer lines can really alter the look of this design.  

Here are a few of my the pieces you might have already seen, but they really show some of the variations this pattern can have.

Skye Zentangle

 

And finally, a look at all of my Skye Tangly goodness together in one shot. 

Skye Zentangle

Big Skye Zentangle

Big Skye Zentangle

Skye Zentangle Shaded

 

This piece took me quite a while to do, lots of small detail and such.  I used Copic microns and grey Copic markers for the shading.  It’s my final skye zentangle piece for awhile, as it’s time to move on to a different tangle.

Stay tuned for my next post with skye zentangle how-to video and a whole whack load of pictures of the other skye zentangle tiles I’ve completed over the last couple of weeks!

Before pic - just lines

Before all the shading and details were finished pic