Gourdgeous

It is amazing being able to see properly. We went for a walk to the end of the street today and I was able to see the islands which are just offshore for the first time in a long time. Fortunately my near sight wasn't affected so I have been able to tangle, but this week I do still have to take it a bit easy otherwise my eyes get tired, particularly looking at the computer. I am really looking forward to visiting all your blogs and getting back to some sort of normality..

As I said it hasn't stopped me tangling for long. I have had a bit of a thing for crescent moons lately. The first one I did wasn't so good, the beaded zander I used to outline the points were a bit too thick and clumpy.

The next one I liked much better, it was the first time I had used Hamadox in conjunction with other tangles.

Then came a really fun one, purely by accident. The Ixorus looked like a night cap, Tri-Bee turned out like a beard, and a rogue swirl from the freeform Huggins was just in the right position for a nose. With all that appearing I put an antidot in the space to look like the eye of the man in the moon.

I decided I ought to try one in a different colour to orange, so blue was the feature on this one.

Well orange goes with the new tangle pattern The Diva has asked us to try today. I had s feeling Gourdgeous might be the one she would choose as it has only recently been released from the mother ship. I am not sure I shall use it much. It is not abstract enough for me. As soon as you get something that looks like a real life object I struggle to get it to look right, I just don't have the artistic flair.

Nevertheless I had a try for the challenge and used Gourdgeous with Gumleaves, Pokeleaf and Tipple.

Edit:- After visiting your blogs I was embarrassed and determined to try harder. I thought maybe I had learned a few things, especially about the stem area. I practised it in my sketch book, then tried it in a string surrounded by other tangles. It didn't really 'click' with me but finally I thought I could improve on my first one and redid it in Halloween pumpkin colours.

Here is the original photo.

Gourdgeous in a string.

Pumpkin colours again, a slight improvement.