Random tile

As I now have 125 of the official tangles on Bijou-sized tile stored in A4 plastic sheets, I thought it would be good to try a tile with randomly chosen tangles for once. So I used a dice app to pick four tangles from the six sheets, using a six-sized die to choose the page, then a 20-sided die to choose the tangle on that page. Here's what it chose: Ellish, IX, Jonqual and Printemps. The first three I've never used in a tile before, so it was a good experiment!

3Z practice

I've got lots of spare 3Z-sized tiles now, so I had a break from ValenTangle today and did a few of these. Firstly a really quick one with Flux and Mooka, then a ZenGem surrounded by Mooka, and finally Flux with Paradox in the middle, and surrounded by Printemps. I weighted all the tangles to give an extra sense of depth.

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.

Diva Challenge 248: Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day

This week's 'Diva Challenge #348', from Laura Harms, is for Moebius Syndrome
Awareness Day on Wed 24th Jan. I'll let Laura explain why:

I am the diva - Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT®): Weekly Challenge #348

The symbol for MSAD is a Moebius strip, and the colour is purple, so Laura has suggested using the symbol as the string. The ONE Focus for this week is Riki Tiki (Renee King), so I decided to tangle this around the strip, with a purple gem in the middle. Irradial (Tomas Padros) fills the gaps (coloured with Prismacolour pencils), with purple Printemps (midnight gelly roll) around the outside.

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!

A renaissance tile for the New Year

Had to try out a couple of my Christmas presents - new red and brown micron pens. Also used black and sepia, white gelly roll, plus white charcoal and graphite for shading. I can definitely understand why Zentangle was originally just black on white - it's amazing how much more complicated things get when you add more colours/media. I really wasn't sure about this one at first, but I think it turned out alright in the end. Definitely need more practice though!

12 Days of Zentangle: Day 1

Took a while to get round to doing day 1! This has four variations on original tangles, demonstrated by the Zentangle guys.

Hypnotic

This week's 'One' focus is on the tangle Hypnotic. I've seen so many fantastic examples and tangelations on the Facebook page I really wanted to try a tangelation of my own. I didn't think I'd seen any versions with Tripoli, so gave it a go. Paradox fitted nicely in the corners, and I squeezed another Hypnotic in the middle of these. Finished it off with a tangelation of Printemps with Hypnotic too. Here it is in progress - basic pattern finished, then with some extra shading in pen, then with the graphite shading.

Waybop

This started off as a rather rushed practice of Waybop, an official tangle I haven't tried before. Then when it was done I thought it would look good with Umble in the middle. Diva dance followed, with Printemps and tiny Tipple to finish. Shading brings it to life, as always.