Day 8 - Working Ahead w/ Vega & Purk

I realized quickly that working at my art and trying to post on the same day was really stressful! The snow and school cancellations, plus lots going on at work put a bit of a crimp in my tangling each day.

This weekend gave me a chance to work ahead and take a little pressure off my self imposed demands ☺

Today is a practice piece I worked on - Vega and Purk.  These tangles gave me some challenges with trying to make them look 3-D. I think, in the end, I got the results. You'll see more in the coming days as I really want to become more accomplished with these tangles.

Cheers,

A

Day 7 - Tangleation & The Signature Exercise

Day Seven
Here's my Tangleation for today - a combo of Tipple and Crescent Moon. Tangelations are a mixture of patterns with today's task of making my own variation on any ones I liked. I feel like I didn't get a chance to finish this and will probably go back in and fill in the spaces around my Poke Root in the upper lefthand corner.  I really love how the Tipple easily filled in space around my pattern, Flux (the leafy-looking pattern).  That's a fun pattern!

Signature Exercise

I mentioned this exercise on Day One but I couldn't fit it all into one post. As I said in Day 6, she really packs a lot into one day so sometimes I'm finding it easier to do Day 1a and b ; )

This was a really simple, yet relaxing exercise to do.  I played with the shape, size and placement of my initials. I tried to fill my whole page, too. I landed on a few that I liked and then started using 1 in particular for all of my Zentangles. (PS...you can see it above in my Tangleation creation. I use the A for Amy the R from my maiden (and now, middle name) and A for Archambault. Then added the date on that long line.) : )

Cheers,

A

Day 6 - One-Stroke Patterns - Mooka

Day 6
This was a really fun day because the book has me work on one-stroke patterns.  The one in the middle that looks like a monogram is called, "Mooka". I didn't do it quite right, though. Your pen is supposed to never leave the paper and obviously, mine did - oops! But it was still fun... ; )

I find that practicing the patterns a bit before launching into a Zentangle is more helpful, too.  It helps me figure out what I need to do to understand how the pattern is made. The challenge is finding enough time to do both - practice and then do the Zentangle. The author packs a lot into each day so it can be a little overwhelming to do everything in 'one day'.

I used the following patterns from Day 1-5: Tipple, Knights Bridge, Jonqual, Nekton and Printemps

Even though I had felt that I used too many in my Day 4 post, I'm really enjoying mixing and matching patterns as I feel they will fit with my design.

Snowed in again today so I'm sure I'll accomplish something for my Day 7 post in a little bit...

Cheers,

A

Day 5 - Sparkle: Isochor

Day 5
I'm on track now, but had to take some down time on Friday to just recoup from a crazy week. So here's the other Sparkle pattern for Day 5: Isochor.  This one is a little tricky but I was starting to get the hang of it at the end. My lines were getting more curved and they look more like "tubes". I'm still happy with how this Tangle turned out.

Also in this Tangle are previously learned patterns from Days 1-4: Fescu and Nekton. I think that's another thing that I love about Zentangle; I can decide on the fly which pattern I want to work with and adjust as needed.

I didn't restrict this Zentangle to a bordered area, either. Just drew the string and went from there! For me to figure out how to do Isochor, I followed a similar example in the book and it helped.

Okay...on to the next post...Cheers!

A

Day 4 - Sparkles: Printemps

Day Four

The color is a little off on this image...I think I need better light, but anyhoo...

Today was working with sparkles - adding light to areas.  Those swirls are called Printemps and they are also known as 'sparkles'. Who couldn't use a bit more of that!??!

I think I went a little pattern crazy...but it might sleet and then it might snow and then the kids will be home from school...crazy is what I'm feeling...

Be safe on the roads...and, oh yeah, don't forget to buy milk, bananas and bread - WHA WHA WHAAA... ; )

Cheers,

A

Day 3 - Poke Berry, Hollibaugh & Festune

Day Three

I worked on Poke Berry, Hollibaugh and Festune last night for practice and then created this today. Poke Berry looks just like that - little berries - they are up top. Hollibaugh is what's in the background that looks like lattice.  Festune reminds me of pumpkins...or donuts if I'm hungry ; )

Cheers,

A

Day 2 - Knights Bridge, Nekton & Fescu

Day Two

I lost my post from Day Two but here is my Zentangle...not sure what happened...weirdness.

Cheers,

A