Here’s an interesting piece combining Verve (JJ LaBarbera) and the torn effect started with the “Small Treasures”. I like what happened here, a lot!
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Another Tangled Journal Tile. This includes an encapsulated MI2 (part of my class Small Treasures), also Oybay (Antonine Koval), and also Coiled Berry and Skorpio (both Eni Oken). MI2 is a tangle originally by Mimi Lempart. I’m enjoying so much collecting these “artifacts”, small piece of wonderful patterns, motifs and combos.
I’m on a roll making these Tangled Journal Tiles. This one celebrates IDOZ, the new tangle released by Zentangle founders during the first International Day of Zentangle, released during an online live event to an audience of 2k tanglers! Such fun. You can also see there a Morph between Moon Pie and Jaysix. Every thing shaded with brown and sepia.
It’s been so long since I made one of these Tangled Journal Tiles! I used to make them all the time for my private journaling. This one has as focal point a series of heart knot fragments I learned from Sheila Sturrock’s book, and is shaded in sepia/brown inks. Tangles include Shiloh (Maureen Stott) and Trelina (my own).
Another mandala: I used some overlapping knotted ribbons according to the samples I played with before, and it was fun - took me two whole days to finish the 8x8 inch picture. This is probably the last one I’ll make for a while, I’m utterly mandala’d out :-) But I can’t promise.
I started this mandala a few weeks ago, and it’s been taking a long time to finish only completed yesterday. Not entirely sure if I like it or not - definitely falls into the “weird” category. Tons of little tangles, some knots, and shading using brown and sepia inks.
Lately I've been exploring Celtic knots. I started these recipe cards testing the method similar to constructing the tangle Huggins, but I discovered another book and tried a different method which is more similar to my Freeform Knots class. I also tried some treatment options, mixing brown pen tangling with some color.
Today I participated in another fun class with Angie Gittles celebrating the 4th of July US independence day. She used Phicops, Ixorus, Printemps and Pokeroot, and colored it with very beautiful red and blue markers. I went rogue and couldn’t resist going into sepia/brown again. Such a fun class, thank you Angie!
Today I participated in a fun class conducted by Mary Rose Feldman, an amazing CZT and friend. She took us through a project using Onba, a rather challenging ogee grid tangle by Francoise Lip. I used the opportunity to use brown pen and india ink shading again. Love the result!!!
Daily meditation on a small square tile. Now that I've worked on larger size mandalas, it’s so strange to work on the smaller paper, it’s over so quickly! This one was made using a Celtic-style flat knot as a string. Testing a little bit of color variation with my india ink pens. Other than fishskirt, not quite sure what to call these patterns.
Last Wednesday I attended a CZT After Hours conducted by Heidi Froelich where she explored Ratoon (Zentangle). Of course I had to create another brown/sepia Journal Tile. I also included tangles Florz, Braze, Garlic Cloves (Jacquelien Bredenord) and Chrissie, a rather new tangle by Martina Ramhapp.