Diva's Weekly Challenge #360: Shattuck vs Tripoli

When I saw that this week's Diva Challenge #360 was a duotangle of Shattuck and Tripoli I had to get stuck in! Shattuck is one of my all time favourites, but I don't often use Tripoli. I quickly decided I wanted to use Shattuck as a string, or reticula, and fill the sections with more Shattuck and Tripoli. I started the tile on Monday, but didn't get very far, then work got in the way mid-week! Finally had time to finish it on Thursday evening. I think I was avoiding it slightly, as I wasn't too keen on how it was looking, but I trusted the process and once the shading was added I was much happier - as always! I've been avoiding looking at all the other challenge entries until now, as I didn't want to be influenced by anyone else, so I'm looking forward to catching up now! No doubt I'll pick up some great ideas for future tangling :-)

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.

ValenTangle Day 8: New to me tangles

Today's theme is to use heart-shaped tangles we haven't tried before. I've gone with the string and one of the tangles for this week's "It's a string thing" challenge - Olluan by Tina Hunziker CZT, and Hearts-a-flutter. I used a pink Prismacolour pencil for some delicate colouring, and used a torillion to draw feint Printemps. I'm not all that happy with the Olluan inside the heart - I think they're too small which makes them difficult to shade effectively, but overall I quite like it. 

12 Days of Zentangle: Day 7

We had a busy weekend with friends, but after they'd gone home I found some time to relax and try out my new Zendala tiles. The first had no string - just a flux border and a sprig of mooka, with some filling. Finished of with a new one - Scrawlz (prettier than it sounds!)

The second is from the 12 Days of Zentangle, day seven, on a pre-strung official white Zendala.

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!

Tangled shell

Went for a lovely walk on the beach with the kids this afternoon. Loads of shells around, so I collected a few to have a go at tangling them. This it's my first attempt - good fun, so will definitely give it another go!