These days I'm pretty obsessed with Wyfore, creating all kinds of tangleations and hybrid versions. Here I used also gray pens (dark and light gray) to form the background and the stripes.
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During my recent vacation I was inspired by turtles to use the tangle Bucky. This is a tangle I haven't used very much at all, and it was fun to play with the fragment, which is quite beautiful.
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Today Art Clubbers and I worked on Part 2 of the lovely Tree of Life ZIA project. We worked on the frame, background and shading.
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In this picture I used a Donut string with tangles Fishskirt, Bronx Cheer Berry, Medusa (Tomas Padros) and a little Damsel Leaf (Annett Ruempler). Turned out pretty fun and rather unusual. I love the shading of it!
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Last Thursday Art Clubbers and I worked on Part 1 of the lovely Tree of Life ZIA project. We created the line-art for the tree branches, leaves and flowers. In Part 2 we'll work on the frame, background and shading.
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I think we are all a little in love with Tomàs Padro's new tangle Medusa. Here I'm posting two simple tiles where I explored the shading and different ways to construct the underlying ogee grid. I suspect Medusa is going to appear more in my work very soon!
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I had a blast making these two pieces combining Wartz (Genevieve Crabe) with Sinkhole and Spherify! The Art Raffle gave me this difficult combination, but it was a fun experiment and I'm super happy with it.
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A new update to the free app Art Raffle, making the total number of cards reach 525! Nine new cards for you, especially focusing on 4 tangles by Emily Houtz and two new tangles of my own.
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Two pieces with Hollis over a triangular string, sprouting from a fancy triangular fragment. One of them also plays with 3D cuffs over Wyfore. Fun!
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Yesterday I taught Art Clubbers how to create this lovely spiral bouquet using Eofer (Iris Heidt), Bronx Cheer, and also a Coiled Berry tangleation of Diva Dance. I had a great time shading this 3-dimensionally.
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Last week Art Clubbers and I had a Tangle Play session including Wyfore - where we explore tangles and make index cards - and I decided to combine it with Drawings over a triangular string. Very fun to play with!
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I’m still incredibly inspired by project pack 20. In these images I combined Drawings and Myseliam (and some other stuff too). Can't get enough of these Blossom tangles.
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A Tree of Life is a widely adopted symbol of knowledge and life. Here I used a twisted Diva Dance, Hollis, Moon Pie, Cat Kin (Lonetta) and Tree Leaf (Debbie New). What a great project!
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The title of the post may sound strange, isn't all Zentangle intuitive? In this experiment I used a much more complex and intuitive string combined with a gray micron pen on two different pictures, with varied degrees of success. I came to an interesting conclusion, though.
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Yesterday I taught a much awaited class on how to create these Fancy Caps. It was a long class, where we learned about gems, how to draw the fancy caps and developed this lovely ZIA project.
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This crazily busy image is inspired by project pack 20 using Hollis, Moon Pie, Toobs (Angie Gittles) and Travel (Jodi Genovese). Whew, talk about embellishments. Toobs looks a bit like Zander to me.
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One of my clubbers has insistently asking me to try using a ballpoint - the good old Bic (or Biro) pen in my tangling. I used a black and blue Bic pens for shading - with varied degrees of success, some good and and some pretty bad. Here's the result, inspired by Project Pack 20 Hollis and Moon pie.
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My private group and I tangled an oldie but goodie: a tangled butterfly. Remembering a friend who has left us too soon thinking she has morphed into something beautiful. Fly, fly away dear friend and leave that painful cocoon behind.
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I combined a Marasu String (class by Deb Bowyer) with an Art Raffle and a whole lot of goodies, Festune, Msst, Crazy Zander and more.
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This is from last week: a daily meditation with the Art Raffle gave me Travel (J.Genovese), Saturday (Y. Kageyama), also Edgework, Squarify and I added a “horizon”, an enhancer where a simple horizontal line can create an immediate landscape effect.
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