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.



Last Watercoloured Background Zentangle

 

Last Watercoloured Background Zentangle (for now)



Watercolor Zentangle Peace

So this is it for the watercoloured backgrounds for now.  I still have a couple left, but I’ve put them aside to focus on the new challenges.  I’ll probably incorporate them with a challenge tangle at some point.

Here’s what I’ve learned from doing the watercolour challenge

#1 – Don’t use cheap watercolour pencils.  They wind up looking more like crayon marks when they dry.

#2  - Microns tend to bleed a bit on the watercoloured tiles.

#3 – Don’t lightly use a  black watercolour pencil for the background – it winds up just looking like the tile got dirty (see example on my peace sign above)

#4 – I’ve mentioned it before, and thanks to Eni we in the shading fb group were given a heads-up on these 2 points: Let your watercolour dry completely (24 hours) before zentangling it and put the drying pieces between waxed paper and some heavy books to flatten it out. If you know of a better way to make stop the tiles from curving and curling with the watercolour, please let me know! Even with the books and waxed paper mine still curve and curled a bit.

That’s all folks! On to the next challenge!