ValenTangle Day 10: 3Z puzzle

Today's prompt was to create a puzzle from 3Z tiles, designed so they look great on their own or placed together. I haven't got any official 3Z tiles as they seem difficult to get hold of, so I haven't tangled on triangles before. I've been keen to have a go though, so this motivated me to make my own, from some old watercolour paper. I really liked Marguerite's 'Delft delights' example, so I treated myself to a blue micron for this one. These two took quite a while, but I like the result, particularly when placed together.

No mistakes!

One of the principles of Zentangle is that there are no mistakes, only opportunities. I tried Stella for the first time on this tile, but went wrong very quickly, by missing one of the for markers I'd made - this should have had eight points! I nearly scrapped it, but decided to keep going and see how it ended up. By modifying one of the lobes slightly I managed to rescue it, and I'm pretty pleased with the end result - what a great lesson!
This was definitely inspired by all the wonderful examples of Stella on the Zentangle Mosaic app, but hopefully not a direct copy of any of them.

First Zendala

Finally got round to using one of my Christmas presents - a Zendala instruction and work book. I photocopied one of the pages of pre-strung designs onto sketch paper and cut them out, before starting this one. Kept it simple with Paradox and Betweed in the main circle, and Onamato as the border. Shading is a bit heavy four my liking (more noticeable in real life), but on the whole in happy with this first attempt. Looking forward to trying more, and adding some subtle colour.

Butterfly ZIA

Finally finished this ZIA - a Christmas present for my friend Nicola. It's 8" x 8", the usual black micron 01 with graphite shading, and Prismacolour pencils for the zen gems. Hope she likes it!