2nd Attempt at Roids

2nd Attempt at Roids

This is my 2nd attempt at roids. Still playing with the tombows for that colour pop! 

Roids zentangle

Kinds posted these backwards, but here's the shading before the colour

Roids zentangle

And here is the line art before shading

Rope string with Yew Dee

Rope string with Yew Dee

 

The Zen n Zia facebook group posted this very cool Rope String at the same time as Eni Oken’s Shading Zentangle group posted the Yew Dee tangle challenge. So I put the two together and voila!

 

I love this rope string! I know it’s supposed to be rope, but it reminds me of a gnarled tree, and I may just be using this string for trees in the very near future.

You can find the rope string step out here

The Yew Dee step out is here

 

Here is my line art

 

And here is my finished piece

Valentine's Day Tangle

My Tangled Valentine

 

It took me a few days to get this one done. Quite a few layers of stuff going on here.  The fun part is that I used very few tools to put this piece together.

 

Of course I used my microns, but more excitedly, I used one Tombow red watercolour marker and the clear brush that comes in the set to add all of the red and pink in this piece.  I used my trusty HB Staetdler pencil to shade beyond the reds/pinks, and that’s really all I used.  Usually, my little “art table” (which is really more of a tv dinner tray on wobbly legs) is filled to the edges with all sorts of pens, markers, pencils, pencil crayons, etc. etc. ad nauseum.  Not this time though – Paper, microns, pencil, 1 marker, 1 marker blender and one blending stick.  I’m pretty proud of that, and very impressed with the lack of clean up required after.

 

Here is the finished piece:

 

 

Here is the line art

 

 

The tools I used

 

1st Attempt at Neuron Zentangle

1st Attempt at Neuron Zentangle

Okay so the title here is a bit of a lie - this is actually my second attempt at the Neuron Zentangle, but the first one was so awful I wound up using the paper as a tester for combination colors.  Yeah, it was that bad. 

Seems to be the general consensus that not many are fond of this tangle - yeah, me neither.  I might do a few pieces with it - but really, it's not very fun.  It's kind of like a tangle within a tangle, or more to the point, a string within a string. But - it was a challenge, and I may have a few more of these pieces up my sleeve.

I used copic markers for the colouring in this, hb3 pencil for shading and copic microns. I used a white pencil crayon for the highlights.

Here's the finished piece:

Neuron Zentangle

And here is the before shading piece



These are the copic markers I used for the colour





2nd Attempt at Mak-Rah-Mee

2nd Attempt at Mak-Rah-Mee

Well this piece was fun! Gotta love color! I used prismacolor pencil crayons to get this effect thanks to Eni Oken's amazing book.  You can check out her books here.

Other tools used:

• tile
• Copic .03 and .1 microns
• staedtler hb3 pencil and smudge stick

Here's the final piece:

Mak Rah Mee Zentangle with Colour

Here's the piece after shading

Here's the line work before shading



1st Attempt at MAK-RAH-MEE

1st Attempt at MAK-RAH-MEE

Eni Oken's challenge this week is Mak-Rah-Mee.  And what a fun tangle it is! It's a blast to shade, and all of those funky ribbons are so versatile, there is nothing that makes this tangle not fun.

Here's my first attempt at Mak-Rah-Mee finished

Mak-Rah-Mee zentangle

And here is the line work:

(pardon the photo, it was taken with my tablet)



All Things Stella Zentangle

All Things Stella!

This is my summary post of all of the Stella experiences I’ve had over the last week or so.  The Stella Zentangle pattern was created by Jana Pharmer (formerly Rogers) the original tangle walk-through can be found here.

 

A special “Thank you” to Eni Oken who posted this Stella challenge on her amazing FB page “Shading Zentangle”.  Be sure to stop by her website and check out her very cool books!

At the bottom of this page you'll find the 5 pieces I've done with Stella.  Click on the link beside any of the photos to see the full posts and line art etc. for each piece.

  

Last but not least, here is my video of a nice and basic Stella Zentangle design.

For the full post about this piece click here

For the full post about this piece click here

For the full post about this piece click here

For the full post about this piece click here

For the full post about this piece click here

Do you have a blog with a Stella Zentangle post on it? Add the link to your Stella Zentangle post below so others can view your work!  (please do not link to your main page, just the post with a Stella zentangle on it)