Last of the Slits for now...

Last of the slits for now



Lots of zentangle slit tiles

 

Here are the rest of the slit tiles I’ve managed to get through this week.  All part of the Mysterious Mega Zentangle Project I’m cooking up.  I’ll be making quite a few more of these, but instead of pestering the feed with the same type of tile over and over again, ad nauseam, til they are all done, I figured I’d stop here for now. 

As you can see, there is a before tile there amongst the chaos. Any guesses yet to remove the mystery factor of the project?  Follow the project here to keep up with the progress http://kikikandiness.blogspot.ca/p/the-mysterious-mega-project.html

Fasset and Slits

Double the Challenge, Double the Fun

(not part of the Mysterious Mega Zentangle Challenge)

Doing the Double the Challenge, Double the fun again with Eni’s FB Slits Challenge, and The Diva’s Fasset Challenge. Double the challenge, double the fun, and double the tiles! I rolled the two challenges into one and here’s what became of it on the first try.

 

As with first attempts at any tangle, there is always a learning curve. For this one, I did as the original Fasset challenge suggested and went for a random array of triangles as my base.  Sadly, I was so consumed with how this was going to turn out, I didn’t take any before pics.  I found some of the “triangles” sort of worked themselves into a pattern, while others, not so much, making it look kind of messy. When I finished the tile, I shrugged and thought, “hmm… well it’s alright, but it could be better.”

So I got out another tile and tried again, this time with more uniform triangles and I liked the results so much more.  This one pops and there is no “Where’s Waldo” effect to it, which is definitely an improvement.

 

On this one, I half-heartedly remembered to take before pics. 

Before connecting lines

 

After connecting lines but before Shading

But the final piece is the one that puts a smile on my face.

Here's a double shot of the two together

Fasset and slits Zentangle Shaded

Zentangle garden tile - with slits

Slits Challenge?

(not part of the Mystery Mega Zentangle Project)

 

Well this could have gone better.  I sort of worked out the slits part of the challenge, as in they look a little more like slits.  Unfortunately I didn’t take into account that the design needed to be simple in order to actually SEE the slits.  So I added color.  Woopsies!

Zentangle Garden with "slits"

By the end of this (omg it took forever) tile, I as disappointed. Way too busy and everything kinda got lost.  Then I looked on the bright side! I’ve created my very own “Where’s Waldo” but it’s “Where are the slots” instead! Go ME!

Slits Challenge and the Mysterious Mega Zentangle Project

Slits Challenge and the Mysterious Mega Zentangle Project



Slits challenge zentangle

First, the slits challenge.  Eni Oken’s FB challenge of the week is to create slits within a zentangle piece.  I didn’t do very well.  It’s supposed to appear like the design is going in or coming out of the paper from a slit, just a gash, not quite a hole.

When I was done with my shading and what not – I really didn’t feel like I’d hit the target.  I was rather disappointed, and was going to ask Eni for guidance until she (psychically? ) posted how to do exactly what I couldn’t get.  No shading the part of the design that laps over the gap in the slit.  For more detail you’ll have to join Eni’s Shading Zentangle FB page to see her awesome worksheet! (Do it, do it now!)

 

I expect to do better next time with this eye-opening revelation.

Now on to the Mysterious Mega Zentangle Project portion of our show… err I mean post.  This is tile #1 for the project.  Kind of gives away a lot, but I can still pretend its Super Mysterious.  At least I wasn’t exaggerating on the Mega part – this is going to take awhile.

This is where you can follow along with the project from the beginning.

Oh and here is my before pic