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. . . inZanity? Maria writes: I realize I have an obsession with any kind of border. So yesterday I walked around our house with my phone camera to show you a bit of what I see. Imagine what you could find if you were JUST looking for borders! Wallpaper, Fabric, and Furniture Upholstery Pillows Frames (Maria when she was about eight with her younger brother, Tom.) Mats Musical Instruments Rugs Shelving Jewelry Furniture Dishes Table Linens Chocolate Boxes Bed linens Glassware Lamps Books Vases Towels Clothes Houses And even our Kitchen Stove (!!) Rick adds: That stove used to burn wood, then coal, and now it uses gas. It's also our primary heat source in our living space. Check out the floor. It was our inspiration for our tangle florz. Well, you get the picture(s). Anyone who is familiar with our house has seen my obsession. Second only to tassels. (!) What can I say . . . (except I even have tassels with borders!) (Rick adds: . . . and borders with tassels! :-) They instantly attract my eye . . . Guide me around . . . Keep me even-keeled. Maybe it's their ability to keep things together (I can be haphazard with most things) and perhaps I depend on borders "holding" things in place. Borders provide their own "elegance of limits" to inspire and support. Perhaps it is the border on your ring or bracelet . . . or the tooling on your leather shoes, or a book binding, or the table runner under the flowers, or the gingerbread on an old Victorian house on the corner, or the elegant gold pinstriping on that old Singer sewing machine, or the multicolored piping around the pillows on your favorite chair, or maybe . . . maybe it is in your memory, of places warm and comfy. So I have morphed a few of these borders into the world of tangle for you to contemplate. Rick adds: Take a moment to enjoy matching Maria's tiles with their inspirations. For instance, part of that second to last tile was inspired by the industrial shelving in our shipping area. Now take another moment to look around you right where you are at this moment and become aware of border tangle inspirations. From where I am right now, a small sampling of what I can see: Coiled wire on a telephone land line Stitching on leather Shadows cast by my computer keyboard keys UPC code wrapped around a pencil in a cup nearby Scales on a dragon on the picture frame holding Maria's picture Grain pattern in the oak wood of my desk Interlocking zipper teeth on my back-pack Next, in your mind's eye, play with how you might deconstruct these images into the fewest and most easily recombined elemental strokes (see page 1 of our book). Finally, put on some water for tea, grab your tiles, pencil and pen, and enjoy! We consulted our magic automated number generator and . . . Our winner of the tangled toast tongs blog is . . . drumroll please . . . Anne's Tangle Blog. Congratulations, Anne, and thanks for your heartfelt story. Thanks again for taking your time to visit. Let us know in the comments below what borders you find that inspire you to tangle and we'll choose a commenter to receive one of these tiles. Click images for larger views.
3in x 3in. Pigment ink on paper. In Zentangle Land, squid are the most laidback of creatures. They go with the flow. "To resist the path of least resistance is futile," they like to say. Are they being too adventurous or overly submissive? Adaptable or apathetic? There is probably no sure answer. But they know they belong in Zentangle Land, where Ink is life and where Ink flows freely. ^_^
There's been a recent discussion among some of the CZTs about using the tangle Meer in a border design and what to do at the corner. I like a challenge so I gave it some thought and came up with the idea of twisting it. Then I realized that it could also be 'folded' at the corner. Use straight rather than curved lines and simply eliminate the triangular corner bit from your tangle. If you want the pointy corner effect you can always add a little something extra there. A number of suggestions were proposed by other CZTs and I thought I'd give them a whirl too. Bonnie Browning suggested "leaving the corner blank and put Paradox or something like that in the corner that is still lines, but different" (example: top left below). Jean Theurkauf offered a few ideas: "use a different tangle in the corners, like a medallion" (example: top right below) "have the borders overlap each other like pieces of wood might" (example: lower left below) "try putting a diagonal line in the corner, and bring meer straight right up to that line" (mitering) (example: lower right below) Jean Smerglio shared a couple of diagrams showing "a way to do tangles that do not go around corners well. I have to give credit to Carole Ohl (for) one; she used it in her calendar." I've added two more: And on a side note, if you're wondering what Carole Ohl's calendar is, check out this link. UPDATE, FEBRUARY 2014 - ANOTHER METHOD! I woke up this morning with another method for sending the tangle Meer around a corner lurking in my brain. This one keeps nice, square corners, if that's something you'd like. Later I realized that this is basically the mitering idea proposed by Jean Therkauf, but you don't have a diagonal ink line through the corner. If you want to use Meer around an entire rectangle, you'll notice in the example above that the diagonally opposite corners will match, and be different from the other diagonally opposite corners. Here we go:
Hiya folks! This week's Diva Challenge is to look around and start noticing potential borders to tangle. I have an old mirror I got at a tag sale and wanted to use the frame as a tangle border. Here's the frame (sorry, I see that it's blurry): Frame on mirror It has an interesting pattern and I attempted to recreate it, zentangle style. Here's my attempt: Mirrormirror border I might have to work on it a little more, but I do like the idea. We'll see where it gets me. Earlier in the week I created the following tile, using Kuke: Kuke border I do like the boldness of it. It has a nice balance of black and white. I wonder what next week will bring! Tangle on......
Ranger • Dylusions cling stamp Bordering on the edge
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Online instructions for drawing CZT® Kathy Barringer’s Zentangle® pattern: Antique.
Laura Harms brings us a "DuoTangle" Challenge this (forty-first!) week. Her challenge is to use only jonqal and opus tangles. Here's Maria's . . . Thanks, Laura! Click image for larger view.
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I created this City Scape pattern to be used as a border around straight edge shapes. However, once I finished it up I learned that it looks pretty cool on smooth edges and even as a filler someti…
I took a week away from blogging to visit my friends and family in my hometown of San Antonio, Texas. When I got home, I found it surprisingly difficult to get back into the "swing" of blogging, so I ended up taking another week off! A couple weeks before my vacation, I sent out some postcards to blogging friends, making use of two of my current favorite pastimes--self-carved rubber stamps and Zentangles. At some point, I will share all of the rubber stamps that I've carved, but for now, I'll share the fronts of the postcards, which display a selection: I used a light color Distress Ink (Antique Linen, I think) to stamp background images, and then used the Fired Brick Distress Ink to bring some of the images into the foreground. I used the same Fired Brick to ink the edges of the cards: On the back, I created borders around the edges using different Zentangle and Zenspirations designs: Here are the borders on the other sides: This turned out to be a great way to practice a lot of different designs! I am hoping that my friends and readers will find their way back to Drawing Near after my lengthy hiatus! I am glad to be back.
I use dividers and icons designs in my planner/ journal so I make up these reference sheets. This is the video that got my going on this. She is very good. It was fun to do and to come up with some of my own ideas and searched for others. Here is a tip: don't do this to late at night as it gets your brain in gear and you won't get much sleep. At least that is what happened to me two nights in a row. UGH! It has been a busy month so I am late on getting my post up. "Hide His word in my heArt" is a facebook group I belong to, and these are the Verses for this week. Galatians 6:7-8 Don’t be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit. Have a great week.
I designed this last year and only got around to submitting the pattern a year later.
I have two patterns to share with you today- the 7th and 8th ones in this holiday blog series. I hope that you are enjoying the shares thus far. Feel free to leave a comment here and let me …
I designed this last year and only got around to submitting the pattern a year later.
an older pattern a bit modified and relates to this image Is a result of me making a mistaka with Intwine(www.flickr.com/photos/belatrix29/7065814905/in/photostream)
Maryhill Zendala Wow! Maryhill as a monotangle was Joey's Weekly Tangle Challenge #76. I'm sorry to say I haven't participated before, but how could I not this week? So, OK, I might have "zenned out". I started with a Zendala and got my compass and drew a bunch of circles, (too dark, I might add) no measuring. Next I connected a bunch of points. Yup I got carried away with the string. I ended up overworking the paper as I erased (the first step is admitting it) all the unused strings. Then I added some more! Maryhill fits so nicely in any triangular shaped area! Before shading and thickening some lines I also wanted to participate in The Diva's Challenge #233 even tho I posted Zenith last week. (Check them out here.) So I drew another Zenith strictly as a border for a page I wanted to laminate for my bullet journal. I thought some color would be nice and I used my Copic markers. The colors are included in the photos in case you are interested In the color palette. As Copics bleed through most watercolor paper, I barely put down any color and I only blended the lightest colors, the yellows. They played together very nicely and I will be using that color combination again. I used the middle 4 colors on the border and the darker when airbrushing below Since I was liking that color palette, I thought I'd try another Maryhill using the Copics. I chose a Cheery Lynn die and used the cut out as a stencil, airbrushed Copics over it onto watercolor paper. (No bleed through with the airbrush). I die cut it into a circle a little larger than a standard Zendala. (I get a lot of use out of my nesting circle dies by Spellbinders.) I tangled with a Sakura pigma micron in black and shaded with pencil as usual. I also added white with a Sakura Gelly roll for hilites. I liked it but immediately wondered what it would look like with ink other than black..... So I made another one and tangled with orange, red and green microns. I shaded with Faber Castell Polychromos, pencil and white Gelly roll. After airbrushing with stencil and before tangling I had fun as usual, just playing around trying things out. I really enjoy seeing lots of people trying Maryhill and I hope you all enjoy it too! Have a great week! Posted with Blogsy
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The fun of this tangle is to begin the shards in random directions and take them as far as you like. There is no wrong way to do it. Once yo...
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Here are a few designs to fill in narrow areas like sashings or narrow borders: After you chalk out the wavy stem line on your fabric... Challenge yourself to find different designs to add to the stem line... These get addicting! Try it The Lilies in the back yard are in full bloom: Pink Star Lily Yellow Spotted Star Lily They have freckles... More Lilies....yet to bloom! The back yard isn't only full of flowers... It is full of yearling cattle... They are 15 months old now... They are good company for us! Life in the Hay Field: This hay field is about 5 miles down the road from home These are 6 foot round hay bales... 700 pounds each The bales will be picked up with a tractor and loaded on a trailer and hauled for winter storage in our barns. A few more hay fields to go... 8:30 pm.....Sunset in the Hay Field CLICK HERE to view my Thread Shed CLICK HERE to view My Tutorials CLICK HERE to view my online Sketch Book CLICK HERE: to see My Quilts May Your Bobbin Always Be Full, LuAnn Kessi
