Heerlijk dit herfst weer! Bladeren in de mooiste kleuren en binnen de gezelligheid van kaarsjes en een warm plaid. Maak je huis gezellig met onze ideeën.
I try to do yoga and go swimming a couple of times a week, but I'm still not losing any weight :-( Recently I looked up at the large shower head there and thought it resembled the lotus pods I'd seen in a friend's door wreath years ago. I designed this tangle based on those. I trust you'll agree that Lotus Pods is a better name than Shower Heads! Start with random wobbly circles, touching each other or not. And be sure to do a ring of dots around the edge before filling in the middle. Here's the tangle:
In response to requests from contributors to IAST #230(click to view), I set out to write up some "Tips for Tangling" Debbie Raaen's heart filled Skelter. Debbie's step out and tiles show beautifully flowing, spiraling examples of her lovely tangle (click to view). A few of us, myself included, encountered some challenges when attempting to create the same effect. After getting to know the tangle better, I believe that I have unlocked the mystery of this beauty. Read through these "Tips" and see what you think ~ I do hope you found this helpful. Enjoy!
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Just a brick wall with all the holes in it you want to add.
We had so much fun with the Zenspiration inspired class last month that I decided to continue with that same sort of drawing concept this month. We started by drawing Repeat Pattern Stacks from Cindy at Rainbow Elephant. This is a really fun drawing exercise and can have endless possibilities for practice at home. Her handout is excellent (found HERE) and I like for the girls to have something to take home to remind them of the steps so they can practice. Photo from rainbowelephant.com We then moved on to Cruffles from Sandy Hunter at tanglebucket. They were so fun because the girls took the concept and ran with it. They were designing chandeliers, earrings, bracelets, dresses full of Cruffles, etc. The Cruffles really popped when they started adding color to them too! The Cruffle worksheets can be found HERE and, again, they are excellent!! The last concept we worked on were Coils from Sue Jacobs. This one is tricky at first, but Sue breaks it down nicely and makes it easy. And once they got it, the girls really had fun drawing coils around lollipop sticks and flower stems and all over their papers. I really think learning these types of design/doodles help you loosen up in your drawing and they help give you a fun concept to take and manipulate and change and make your own. The girls did great and really got creative with these fun concepts!! I'm imaging a month of sketchbook pages full of stacks and Cruffles and coils and stacks of Cruffles with coils around them! :)
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You gotta love alliteration! This week's "It's a String Thing" challenge uses four official Zentangle® patterns that begin with the letter 'T' : Tagh, ,Tipple, Tortuca, and Tripoli . They are all listed on Tangle Patterns with illustrations and suggestions, but Tipple and Tortuca do not have step outs posted. These tangles are pretty self-explanatory, but just in case you need a bit more information before you try them on your own, here are my notes about them... In this tile, I used Tipple in the negative spaces of the tangle pattern Fengle. The word tortuca means, among other things, turtle. It does resemble a turtle shell when completed. By the way, these pages are from my pattern notebook. The page is actually a free download from Tangle Patterns. On the home page in the top pink bar, there is a tab named "Organize Your Patterns". Linda Farmer has many suggestions there for pattern notebooks and plenty of free downloads. Check it out sometime! And now, since you have even more information about these pretty patterns, try your hand at this week's challenge. Click here for more information and have fun tangling! You are welcome to leave a comment in the space below. If you would like to hear from me, please use the email box to the right. Thank you!
123 O'LEARY I love border, or ribbon tangles, and this one seems to flow easily and works well with other tangles. Here in my example, I paired it with a combination of Dewd (official Zentangle) and Hanny Waldburger's beautiful Icantoo. (would that be Icandewd? Dewdcantoo?) and also Kuazeela from Eni Oken. The name of the tangle is a bit of a story. I went to the dentist, and he thought I might be grinding my teeth (ewww..) at night. I realized, though, it isn't at night. I do it all day long. Music runs through my head all the time, especially when I am working on something. It could be Sousa marches, the Calypso song from Beetlejuice or the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves - whatever shows up in my head at the time. Rather than hum the tunes, I just grind out the rhythm silently. Whenever I drew this tangle, I realized I was working through that old playground song "One, Two, Three, O'Leary" as I made the strokes. Bouncing the ball, it is one, two, bounces and the third bounce you swing your leg up and over the ball. Here, do the first two S curves, and the third S curve continues down and around to the spiral. Sometimes I vary the number of S curves, as I did here, or vary the shape of the spiral into a Printemps-like spiral or open it out into more of a Mooka type end and then add some auras or echo lines there. There is a good potential for variations, I think. 'NMESHED Here we are with another Ogee based tangle. I used to hate doing that grid because I couldn't ever get it perfectly proportioned and even. That was back in the day when I was worried about tangles being "perfect". I played with Linda Farmer's dot method for a while, but that took too much brain power! Finally, I just practiced the curved lines until I could make a reasonably even grid. It started to be fun, actually! There is something so relaxing about all those undulating lines. Also, the shape of the grid reminds me of those stretchy little bags you get when you buy certain delicate fruit. They have such a pleasant texture, and my inner child just loves to play with them. I always hate to throw them out, so if you have a fun use for them, let me know, please! One of my favorite tangles to draw is 'NZepple. When Molly described it at my CZT seminar as squeezing a hard boiled egg into the little triangular shapes, it really made me smile. What a mental image! I can almost taste those still warm peeled eggs being eased into an unfamiliar shape. I had made an Ogee grid on scratch paper to do another tangle, and there were a few open spaces. I filled them with that "egg", and decided I liked the result. It opened up new possibilities for filling and embellishing those spaces. So, combining the 'NZepple drawing concept with that mesh wrapper I love, here is 'NMeshed. OYBAY Back in 2013 when I was new to Zentangle, but already loving it, my husband asked me to do a ZIA to put in our wine bar area in the kitchen. I took a piece of parchment look paper, printed a quote from Benjamin Franklin on it and tangled a wine bottle and glass. I burned the edges and mounted it on a really cool square plate charger from Pier One. It is a favorite piece in our home. I created a border using a "roller coaster" line and used a shell type motif on one side and a variety of tangles on the opposite side. I never had a name for it, but I loved it. Now I have named it and done a stepout to share with my Zentangle friends. It occurred to me that the shells are like oysters in a shallow pool, so it became Oybay. Hope you enjoy it! _________________________________________________________________________ FICHY Here is Fichy - see them swimming? Once you master the Ogee grid (thank you, Linda Farmer), this is an easy one! _______________________________________________________________________ CRESTFALLEN Try this one on black tiles. Very relaxing to draw and can look very different with variations. __________________________________________________________________ PARIS These little towers can be a border or a fill. Try them in a circle - spacing takes a little practice that way. ______________________________________________________________________________________ CO2 CO2 reminds me of carbonation - light and airy. The main difference between drawing this and AAH! is that you draw from the outside toward the center rather than from a central point outward. ____________________________________________________________________________________ OSKIE Inspired by the pattern on Petosky Stones found in Michigan.
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A week or so ago the Square One Facebook group pattern focus was my pattern Steps (thrilling) - my experimentation took me in a bit of a different direction and I ended up with this tile: I was asked to do a step-out showing how I did the tile above, but ended up getting distracted (as usual) with a spin-off idea and ended up with this which I like way better: Here's the step-outs, it can also be done as a continuous pattern: This pattern did not make it in time for the 2015 edition of the Pattern Folio which, by the way, will be going out in a few days, if you're not signed up please make sure to do it right away - you can read more about it here. Note to email subscribers: you should have gotten an email today with a discount book offer. There's actually a couple of reasons for me sending this out: 1. I wanted to send it to you :) 2. The 2015 Pattern Folio will be going out in the next few days - if you did not receive today's email, please check your email settings and make sure that [email protected] is on your safe senders list. I will not be resending emails that have been blocked by servers. 3. My email list has become very large and unwieldy. I'm sure that some people on it don't actually want the emails and have probably consigned me straight to the junk mail folder, so, by having a couple of mail-outs during December (the discount offer and the pattern folio in a few days), I'll be able to do some housekeeping on my list. Hope your day is amazing! hx
The challenge from Laura at Iam the Diva this week is to raise awareness for Moebius Syndrome disorder and use the Moebius Syndrome Foundation's logo in your Tangle. Laura's son Artoo has Moebius Syndrome which is a congenital nerve disorder affecting cranial VI and VII nerves controlling the lateral movement of his face. Moebius is a spectrum disorder - so some cases are more severe than others. When I first discovered the Mobius Strip at school many years ago I was fascinated by it, a shape with only one side and one edge, which also has strange properties when you cut it lengthways depending on how you do it....however we won't go into that here.. My first thought was to Tangle the mobius strip, however given this has just one side and one face I decided that would not work logically for me... So I decided to leave the Mobius strip blank and tangle around it to produce my ZIA And here it is
YArd saLE. Yale. Here's another tangle I designed while sitting in the sun last weekend. I think the pattern looks more interesting on an angle, but it's easier to draw if you do it straight. In step four you can add one or more arcs beside the spirals, whatever gives you the space you want between the spirals. Here is a tile with Yale. I filled the small central circles thinking it might work well beside Lotus Pods. Tangles: Dancet, Keenees, Lotus Pods, Paradox, Yale, Zedbra The next has an earlier version of Yale. One of my 'dream tangleations' of Assunta had two spirals out from a small circle so I was working with that idea initially. The Yale tangle is simpler but the effect is still there. Tangles: Dancet, Lotus Pods, Unyun, Wud, Yale
You gotta love alliteration! This week's "It's a String Thing" challenge uses four official Zentangle® patterns that begin with the letter 'T' : Tagh, ,Tipple, Tortuca, and Tripoli . They are all listed on Tangle Patterns with illustrations and suggestions, but Tipple and Tortuca do not have step outs posted. These tangles are pretty self-explanatory, but just in case you need a bit more information before you try them on your own, here are my notes about them... In this tile, I used Tipple in the negative spaces of the tangle pattern Fengle. The word tortuca means, among other things, turtle. It does resemble a turtle shell when completed. By the way, these pages are from my pattern notebook. The page is actually a free download from Tangle Patterns. On the home page in the top pink bar, there is a tab named "Organize Your Patterns". Linda Farmer has many suggestions there for pattern notebooks and plenty of free downloads. Check it out sometime! And now, since you have even more information about these pretty patterns, try your hand at this week's challenge. Click here for more information and have fun tangling! You are welcome to leave a comment in the space below. If you would like to hear from me, please use the email box to the right. Thank you!
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Chainlea variation,tipples Aangezien ik vakantie heb heb ik veel tijd gehad om te tekenen. Aangezien de meeste challenges even stil liggen ivm de kerst, heb ik mezelf voorgenomen om van elke string die op www.tanglepatterns.com staat een ZT te gaan maken. Aangezien het weer ook mee werkt, het regent bijna de hele dag, heb ik al 2 ZT's van strings kunnen maken. Nummer 1 had ik als eens gebruikt bij diva challenge # 90 dus deze heb ik overgeslagen, en ben bij string 2 begonnen. Dit ging bijna als vanzelf, en string 3 ging er net zo gemakkelijk achteraan. Ik ben blij dat Erin wel een template heeft geplaats, zodat ik me vandaag na een hele dag wafels bakken samen met mijn moeder, vanavond heerlijk heb tekenen. Zie hier de resultaten van de ZT's en de Zendala die ik afgelopen week heb gemaakt..... Ik wens jullie allemaal fijne laatste dagen van 2012, en natuurlijk alvast een heel gelukking 2012! I have vacation, so I had a lot of time to draw. The most challenges have a deserved vacation, because of the Christmas time, I thought I would start to make ZTs from all the strings on www.tanglepatterns.com. I had a lot of fun with the 2 I made. I skipped #1 (I had already used this one in the Diva Challenge #90) and started with # 2. It is a great string, tangling was no problem, and in no time I had finished it, so # 3 was the next one I made. I am glad that Erin did post a zendala dare today, and after a day of baking waffles, I could really relax this evening by tangling the zendala dare #38. So here are the results of the ZTs and the zendala I made this week.... I wish all of you a great time on the last few days of 2012, and off course a happy new year! String #2 : met de tangles Corner box, Pipez, en bloemen met bladeren en een zon, die ik naar eigen inzicht wat heb gedoodled. The tangles I used: Corner box, Pipez, and some flowers leaves and the sun I just doodled. String #3: Is een mono tangle geworden : Vortex. String #3 is a monotangle with Vortex.
Rick and Maria from Zentangle have been presenting us with wonderful videos throughout this holiday season. If you look for them on YouTube will find them memorizing. I haven't had time to do them all but I hope to get to them later. This one is based on the tenth day. We were presented with using the tangle Paradox as a string. On the video the tangle chosen was striping. I used my tangle 'coil'. On the black tile I used the new #10 white gelly roll pens. then I used a blue and white chalk pencil for the color. I liked the effect as it reminds me of all the holiday ribbons that get scattered around the presents. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
In response to requests from contributors to IAST #230(click to view), I set out to write up some "Tips for Tangling" Debbie Raaen's heart filled Skelter. Debbie's step out and tiles show beautifully flowing, spiraling examples of her lovely tangle (click to view). A few of us, myself included, encountered some challenges when attempting to create the same effect. After getting to know the tangle better, I believe that I have unlocked the mystery of this beauty. Read through these "Tips" and see what you think ~ I do hope you found this helpful. Enjoy!
We had so much fun with the Zenspiration inspired class last month that I decided to continue with that same sort of drawing concept this month. We started by drawing Repeat Pattern Stacks from Cindy at Rainbow Elephant. This is a really fun drawing exercise and can have endless possibilities for practice at home. Her handout is excellent (found HERE) and I like for the girls to have something to take home to remind them of the steps so they can practice. Photo from rainbowelephant.com We then moved on to Cruffles from Sandy Hunter at tanglebucket. They were so fun because the girls took the concept and ran with it. They were designing chandeliers, earrings, bracelets, dresses full of Cruffles, etc. The Cruffles really popped when they started adding color to them too! The Cruffle worksheets can be found HERE and, again, they are excellent!! The last concept we worked on were Coils from Sue Jacobs. This one is tricky at first, but Sue breaks it down nicely and makes it easy. And once they got it, the girls really had fun drawing coils around lollipop sticks and flower stems and all over their papers. I really think learning these types of design/doodles help you loosen up in your drawing and they help give you a fun concept to take and manipulate and change and make your own. The girls did great and really got creative with these fun concepts!! I'm imaging a month of sketchbook pages full of stacks and Cruffles and coils and stacks of Cruffles with coils around them! :)
Hi everyone... my Tangling friends I have loaded up some patterns... this is a template I downloaded from http://tanglepatte...
Mein Blog ist umgezogen. Die Anleitung für Crux befindet sich jetzt auf meiner Website www.nord-tangle.de und zwar genau hier.
9 x 9 cm tangle, made with an assortment of Sakura markers, and shaded with pencil.
Just a brick wall with all the holes in it you want to add.
