Zendala Moments #1

Now that I have found Zendala Moments I am getting carried away and I have immediately tangled  Template no.1 in order to catch up. As this template was actually posted way back in January I didn’t feel I was cheating by incorporating it into a Zendala Duo I started the other day when we were introduced to new tangle Well Well Who, deconstructed by Zentangle.com. I had already tangled Well Well Who into the smaller Zendala so I put the Zendala Moments #1 template into the larger one above.

Here is the result, with the template we were given just below so you can compare.

Zendala Moments

I had taken a break from the various tangle challenges for a couple of years, but they seem to have recently caught my interest again. Following the links I had kept I discovered that several have now disappeared. Amongst those I was sad to see that Erin Olsen’s  “Zendala Dare” has finished. So you can imagine how pleased I was to find Lonetta has taken up the mantle with her Zendala Moments. This is the third month the challenge has been issued so I have entered this month and hope to perhaps catch up with the previous two before the April template is issued.

Lonetta’s example is so lovely that is was hard to decide which Tangles to use but here is the one I have tangled using March’s template:-

St Patrick’s Day 2019

More tangles is lesson 6 in the primer. As I am revisiting the primer I have of course used these tangles before, but it is fun to do the excercises again.

Everyone here in Ireland is getting ready for Paddy’s Day on Sunday and hoping for sunshine. When people think of a colour for Ireland they usually think of Green, however the national colour of Ireland always used to be Blue - St. Patrick's Blue. In fact it is still the background colour for the Irish Presidential Flag as seen here:- 

 The string this week in the 'It's A String Thing' Challenge celebrates St Patrick's Day by using a string shaped like a mitre. I coloured the mitre shape in the green, white and orange of the Irish flag but coloured the bump in the Bumpadox in St Patrick's Blue.

Fragment Friday

Friday’s Fragment this week was S3 and the Reticula chosen was C3 from the Zentangle Primer vol.1. At first it was hard to think of any way to tangle it other than the square demonstrated in the challenge. Then I thought I would separate the Fragment from the Reticula for part if it and I ended up with this quite simple tile which looked like the free Friday Fragments falling into the recticular.

Not feeling very satisfied with that, the next day I incorporated the Fragments and Recticular into my Primer Lesson - String Theory - where the excercise was to tangle across the borders and String. I chose the snail string from the bottom right hand side of the selection but I am not sure how effective I was in amalgamating parts of the string. I did however wander over the border as instructed. As the tangle was snail shaped I felt a certain satisfaction from winding Zentangle’s tangle ‘Centipede’ around the tiles drawn in my journal.

I have also revisited Chapter One from the Primer this week and enjoyed tangling this in my journal using several versions of the first four tangles taught in that :- Crescent Moon, Florz, Hollibaugh and Pristemps. It is fun to revert to the basic tangles sometimes. I use them often, but not exclusively as in this version.

Diptych

I have been experimenting with Diptychs, as suggested by Maria & Rick on the wonderful Kitchen Table Tangles Videos. At first I followed their instructions closely, although I changed the suggested Bales tangle to my own tangle Measles. Here is the result:-

Then I wanted something a bit bigger and I remembered some diptychs Maria had made out of a Zendala tile a while ago and decided to try that. To begin with I folded the Zendala tile in half, then I followed the bottom over to eventually make a stand. You can see my folds here:-

W2 doesn't get used so much these days since the advent of its Crazy cousin Huggins so I decided to use it on this Diptych. It would make a great hinge across the centre fold. I decided to make the lines on the W2 in a zig-zag fashion, just to make it a little different, it made it look as though it was shivering. Here is the finished result, I used Renaissance colours, using the normal Micron Brown pen for the Zenith, shading the V with a brown coloured pencil. You would never know it from the screen, it looks sort of Maroon/pink!

Waybop for the Diva

I am sure many of us have already been trying out Waybop, the new tangle from Maria and Rick. You can see my previous efforts in the other post here.

Not surprisingly The Diva has also been busy with this and has set it as the challenge this week. This is the one I drew for the challenge, Waybop in Orange and Black :-)

Waybop

I don't want to speak too soon, but the winter here is very mild this year. The snowdrops have come and gone already, the daffodils are out and other bulbs sprouting. It is far too soon for them, I do hope we don't get any frost or snow to kill them off.

We have another new tangle from the Mother Ship itself - Waybop. I have had several attempts at it. I started out following the basic step-out on an original Zentangle® tile:-

Next I followed the Waybop video, with Maria showing us the way and Rick commenting. The video is available on the Zentangle® Mosaic app. I took one photo, then realised there was more that could be done. I have posted both here as I am unsure which one I prefer.

Second version:-

Finally I did a Waybop tile of my own design. The Mooka tangle which I drew in green reminded me of the snowdrops I spoke of earlier. Again two photo's as I added more to it and then slightly regretted it as I think I prefer the original.