Weekly Challenge #60

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cirquital, munchin, tangle, weekly challenge, zentangle

weekly challenge #60, a photo by Janas2Cents on Flickr.

This weeks challenge: use only two tangles calles cirquital and munchin. I decided to go the very traditional way – drawing a string and filling it. That’s basically why my cirqital is not really circular but I like it anway.

Thanks again to the Diva!

Weekly Challenge #59

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agua, archer, droplets, grassborder, inapod, mooka, reticulated, riverstones, sanibelle, tangle, weekly challenge, zentangle

2012-02-22weeklychallenge59, a photo by Janas2Cents on Flickr.

Weekly Challenge #59 is to tangle “Mardi Gras”. The most difficult part of this week was to find a mask form I liked. I ended up combining the form of two different ones I found in the web. As I am still fairly new to tangling I decided to choose the tangles based on their name forming the two words “Mardi Gras” in the end. I actually tried coloring the mask but ended up hating it and redoing it in black and white.

This weeks challenges falls right into the end of Carnival season which is extremely important here in Cologne. The season officially starts on 11th November each ear being finalised with 6 days of street Carnival starting on a

• Thursday also called Women’s Carnival Day (it’s an extremely huge street party and men get their ties cut of), followed by
• Carnival Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On
• Rose-Monday we have a huge parade and finally on
• Violet-Tuesday the “Nubbel” is burnt. This is a big doll representing all sins one committed during the carnival season which is also called fifth season. So while we are burning the Nubbel, New Orleans is having Mardi Gras.
• After this on Ash-Wednesday the Lenten-season offically starts.

Thanks Diva for another intresting challenge!

Rebinding a book or making one from scratch

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bookbinding

Snappy Li’l just mader her bookbinding workshop available for free. Very intresting and detailed.

http://greenislescrafts.weebly.com/snappy-lil-journals.html

Weekly Challenge #58 Part 2

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basketweave, boomerang, chessboard, daggerly, diamond, tangle, weekly challenge, zentangle

2012-02-14weeklychallenge#58part2, a photo by Janas2Cents on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
After finishing my first entry to the weekly challenge of the Diva my mind kept coming back to the 4 diamonds again and again so I drew another one. This piece is somewhat lighter compared to number one because the spaces between the single diamonds are bigger and the sides are curved. At some stage it looked like sails from a ship … I am not finally satisfied with the shading so I might keep fickling with that.

Weekly Challenge #58

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diamond, diamond string, tangle, weekly challenge, zentangle

2012-02-14weeklychallenge#58, a photo by Janas2Cents on Flickr.

Via Flickr:

A new week started and a new challenge arrived from “I am the Diva”. Her guest Diana Hirsch asked to use diamond shapes mostly in order to support www.thon.org.

While surfing their website I found the story of Christopher Millard about “Sir Millard and The Four Diamonds” which was his way of dealing with his cancer. Sir Millard travels the world to find the 4 Diamonds of Courage, Wisdom, Honesty and Strenght. Reading this I decided not to tangle the traditional way but to be more conceptionistic about my drawing and to incorporate the CWH and S.

This challenge was very intresting and educating. First I learned about THON but I also learned how to draw a diamond and I found a new background pattern I had not known so far.

Thank you Diva for another interesting challenge!

How to draw a diamond

How to draw a diamond string

 

Tangling my name

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antidots, asian fans, jelly roll, nipa, tangle, zentangle

2012-02-11tangleyourname, a photo by Janas2Cents on Flickr.

While browsing through tanglepatterns.com I found an old challenge here: http://tanglepatterns.com/2011/01/zentangle-your-name.html

Basically you are asked to tangle your name by choosing a pattern that starts with the same letter as the letters in your name.

I chose Jelly Roll, Antidot, Nipa and Asian Fans.

This is a fun way in exploring new patterns. I had some problem with Jelly Roll at the beginning but figured it out. Only the Nipa looks somewhat disturbed. I believe the waves are supposed to look more equal….

Here are the links to the single patterns:

Jelly Roll: http://blog.suzannemcneill.com/2011/12/19/fun-fun-fun-at-art-of-the-carolinas.aspx

Antidots: http://tanglepatterns.com/2011/05/how-to-draw-antidots.html

Nipa: http://blog.suzannemcneill.com/2011/01/20/zentangle-and-colored-pencil.aspx

and Asian Fans: http://blog.suzannemcneill.com/2011/04/14/tutus-and-tiaras.aspx

Work in progress

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sanibelle, tangle, weekly challenge, zentangle

2012-02-09workinprogress, a photo by Janas2Cents on Flickr.

I tried doing another “Sanibelle”-tangle and came up with this heart as we are nearing valentines day. However my mind draws a blank when it comes up to filling the spare part. For now it seems to be a “broken” heart. Let’s see what I’ll come up with.

Weekly Challenge #57

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sanibelle, tangle, weekly challenge, zentangle

2012-02-08, a photo by Janas2Cents on Flickr.

I took part in the Weekly Challenge #57 by “I am the Diva” for the first time. Task was to work with “Sanibelle”. I think it turned out nicely and very organic however partially my lines seem to be somewhat insecure. Well, I’ll have to draw a bit more, I guess.