Online instructions for drawing Valli Ganti’s Zentangle® pattern: C-Knots.
Diva challenge #63 -- New Official Tangle "Fengle"
In our part of the world - Laura the DivaCZT and I live in the same city - but further west, there has been some terrible flooding recently. Downtown Calgary, Alberta was essentially closed and deserted for a couple of days. A friend with whom I spent a weekend two years ago (giving a Zentangle workshop!) lives near High River; they're 'high and dry' but friends of theirs have probably lost their home. Another friend reported on family members: "They were rescued from their floodwater-encircled apartment building near downtown High River by a front-end loader and a dump truck." Recent clean-up and restart estimates are between five and eight billion dollars. When I started reading the challenge I thought we were going to have a water theme, but in fact it's an open challenge. I was already thinking water, so I went with that. I used a pre-strung Zendala tile, blue pens and pencils, and tried to think of some water-related tangles. Seeing some of the photos recently, maybe I should have thought 'mud'. Tangles: Aura, Beadlines, Black Pearlz, Bunzo, C-Scape, Kandysnake, Lamar, Opus, Tipple, Calgary and other parts of Alberta aren't the only places with lots of water. Perhaps the most severe are the monsoons in Uttarakhand (a northern Indian state); the rain is the heaviest in nearly 80 years. Besides the Ganges River, climate change is likely to worsen floods on the Nile and the Amazon rivers.
Coniferous trees. Evergreens. Conifers. Triangles. "Winter Conifers" (c)2015 Margaret Bremner Tangles in the trees: Flux (two varieties), Opus, Sanibelle, Tipple Living where I do - in the middle of the Canadian prairies - I see lots of coniferous trees. They offer greenery in the winter, and often show up in my zentangle-inspired artwork. Here are some tangles that may give you thoughts of EVERGREENS I can't let this post go by without sharing Carole Ohl's spectacular Christmas tree using AQUAFLEUR. Step-outs at this link. FEATHERFALL (from CZT Carole Ohl) Find the step-outs at this link. "Blue Spruce" (c)2015 Margaret Bremner Tangles: Featherfall, Tidings FLUX - either version (from Zentangle) Find the step-outs at this link. See examples of Flux in the first tile, Rick's version on the left and Maria's on the right. NARWAL (from CZT Sam Taylor) Find the step-outs in a video at this link. "Night Knoll" (c) 2015 Margaret Bremner Tangles: Black Pearlz, Hurakán, Narwal, Prestwood, Printemps PRESTWOOD (from CZT Margaret Bremner) Find the step-outs at this link. There is another example of Prestwood in the tile above, using Prestwood as a single, long line. Tangles: Afterglo, Diva Dance, Morse, Prestwood SANIBELLE (from CZT Tricia Faraone) For an evergreen tree, draw it "upside down". Find the step-outs at this link. Here is a Christmas card using Sanibelle on a 3Z tile. We added tiny colored gems for balls or lights. Other tangles with great possibilities are... VERDIGOGH (from Maria Thomas at Zentangle) Inspired by evergreen needles. Find the step-outs at this link. OPUS (from Maria Thomas at Zentangle) - step-outs at this link. Tangles composed of triangles such as... TRIPOLI - step-outs at this link. TRIFLE - step-outs at this link. FASSETT - step-outs at this link. This is certainly not a definitive list. Put almost any tangle in a tall triangle shape and in the right context it could be an evergreen tree. See the example of Prestwood above. :) Experiment. Enjoy!
Welcome to our first ever collaboration week with Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko! We've shared all of our toys on both sides, so be prepared...
template Ben Kwok 116-Heron
Op art, also known as optical art, is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions. Op art works are abstract, with many better-known pieces created in black and white. Typically, they give th…
