More Distressed Adalfa

I cannot get enough of these beautiful distressed tiles! Last week's Shading Zentangle® Facebook group challenge was to tangle over tiles using distress inks, and these are just so fun to work on.

This tile started with a rather simple distress. You could probably create this simple effect using watercolors!

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Next, the line art, following this abstract string formed by the inks:

And finally, the coloring and shading, using gray markers, colored pencils and graphite pencil.

If you want to learn my techniques for coloring using colored pencils, get my ebook Vibrant Color Shading.

Here are a few more pictures:

Man, I love this!
The tangles used were: Adalfa (Bunny Wright), Binda (deconstructed by Claire Crook here), and some good old hollibaugh with a bit of decoration.

Oh, and don't forget: thanks to the overwhelming success of the Overlapping Zentangle® ebook, I decided to create a little gift for you this week: a mini 13-page ebook on how you too can prepare these beautiful distressed tiles. Get it here: Preparing Distressed Tiles.

Enjoy!

-Eni