3Z - for Dad

Today my dad is going to the hospital. Tomorrow he is going through a big surgery. He is 88 years old. I am not there physically but with my mind. Of course I am worried. But right now there is nothing I can do. He is in my tangling. My thoughts go to him. My prayers as well.

As I look at the result of today´s tangling on 3Z I get a picture of the subconcious process going on. And it deals with my dads situation.  I can see that. But I also can see there is balance and strength. I appreciate that and I am thankful. The patterns are Crescent moon and of course Papz, the pattern I made up for my Dad. I filled it with pearls but now when I look at it they look like lamps....

I thought of giving this tile some color. Maybe it will come up... or not. Today it looks like this anyhow.

Circle-Square-String Theory

I am the Diva´s challenge this week is about Circle-Square-String-Theory. This is the Divine Geometry! I do love Geometry. That was the part of mathematics in school I felt motivation to learn and I also in a strange way was good at it! I could sit and draw triangles, Squares and Circles for a very long time trying to figure out the way they worked together. I wanted them to be exact to be good enough. So for this challenge I did use a stencil for the circle and a ruler for the Square. Just to get back to that state of mind I used to be in doing such things at school. I worked on a 3Z since I also wanted the triangle to be present!

I won´t use those things regularly doing zentangle since I do like the freehand nonperfectional way to do it! But here it is with the patterns 5C Aura by Ina Sonnenmoser and Tipple (Zt). I found 5C Aura at Melinda Barlows blog here and I did like the pattern at once. So easy to learn and so much zen doing it! Thank´s Melinda!

One more for the Diva´s 300

I was inspired by Ilse´s 3z in the Diva´s challenge so I needed to try one myself!

I wanted to keep it simple this time using Artoo (Laura Harms) and Drawings (Zt) and I liked the outcome. I just didn´t have time to think, just to draw it.

5th of January - a calendarprocess

Yesterday I saw how Lynn Shelton Mead treated Icanthis. It was stuck in my mind, I had to try it. I didn´t visit her blog first, I made my own try in the calender. But I recommend to follow the link! She makes everything so clear!

I just couldn´t stop it, as Icanthis took over the space but at last I didn´t stand it any more. Unsatisfied with the result I had to go out walking my dog. When I got back I saw what to do. I had to put in more black since it was to messy! 

 

Sometimes it is good to be interrupted. I was much more happy about this. The paper in the calendar makes me happy. Not so much with the shading but the way the micron glides over the surface. It is so fun!

I also finished a 3Z today. Unfourtunally I didn´t see Tina´s tip how to draw Hamail before I did it, but I´ll have that in mind next time!

This time I worked on an original tile, you can see that on the uneven edges. I got it from a friend of mine who kindly sent it to me. Hamail (Tina Aqua Hunziker) in the center, then Marasu (Zt) and Diva Dance (Zt). Quite simple maybe, but relaxing.

The 11th and 12th Day of 3Zs

Today was the 12th Day of 3Zs. The tangle for today was Crazy Huggins. With 12 tangles it is pretty crowded. But I had made up my mind that on the last day in this game all tangles should be present. It was a true challenge. Here is my final mosaic:

I am not kidding. They are all in. But you have to look close to see some of them. The tangles are from Day one: Tripoli, Diva Dance, Shattuck, Marasu, Tipple with gold, Molygon, Knightsbridge, Pokeleaf, Auraknot, Drawings, Icanthis, Crazy Huggins.

Two tangles are new from the Zentangle headquarter, Drawings and Icanthis. 

The 11th Day was yesterday. Here is the 11th mosaic:

And the 11th 3Zs:

On the 11th Day Molygon and Auraknot took a rest. The tile felt too crowded for them to be comfortable. But they enjoyed watching!

It was quite an adventure to take part of this game and a lot of fun. I think I haven´t used 12 tangles in one tile before and this is on 3Z! It is smaller than the ordinary tiles! Don´t know if I will do it again, it is breathtaking, like running a Marathon or something. Maybe next year though if there will come another 12 Days! 

On the 10th Day: a new tangle!

On the 10th Day Bijou brought a new tangle; Drawings!It is a fun and magical tangle. It is hard to stop it!

I bet that´s why Marasu went shy and almost hide himself in the background. That is very unusual, Marasu is very dominant and used to be in focus! All are in: Tripoli, Shattuck, Diva Dance, Marasu, Knightsbridge, Tipple, Molygon, Pokeleaf, Auraknot and Drawings!

I had to go on with Drawings. Here it is with Auraknot and a Zengem:

Thisone might be for a Christmascard I belive. Drawings just went on and also took place in my daily tile:

Now I have come to string 208, which happens to be my first string on Tanglepattern.com!The patterns are: Drawing, Pokeleaf, Jetties, Hollibaugh, Shattuck and Laced (Mary Elisabeth Martin). I was quite happywith the outcome!

On the Eight and Ninth Day

Now it is getting crowded!But here it is. The Ninth Day:

Bijou now brought Auraknot after having a rest. I had to change the backgroundpaper, the red one wasn´t big enough.

The Eight Day Bijou brought Pokeleaf:

Besides the game I made my Daily tile with Aura Leah (Carla du Preez):

String 207 (Cheryl Stock). Hollibaugh, Tipple and Beadline (Margaret Bremner) also joined. Aura Leah is light and airy and very easy to learn.  I have used it a lot and will come back to it. 

On the sixth and seventh day...

On the Sixth Day Molygon arrived....:

On the Seventh Day Knightsbridge took over the space:

Go and check the Zentangle Blog! There are things happening! 

On the fifth day...

Bijou came with golden Tipple!

Gold is very striking. It easily takes over the place. But doing it like this I like it very much! The adventure goes on... 

Yesterday evening I took a break from Christmasrelated things and went for string 204 (Mei Hua Teng).

I used Hollibaugh, Nipa, Tipple and Crescent moon. I also tried a Fragment from the BOOK: W7.

On the Fourth Day

On the fourth day Bijou came with Marasu... 

I don´t know where this will lead, but it is so much fun! Marasu comes with a lot of drama, which I like. 

On the third Day and string 203

It is about the timezone. The third day is today, but in the US they are at least 8 hours after us in Sweden, depending on where in the states the post is made. So this evening I was on my toes to get the third pattern which was Shattuck!  So here is my 3Z for today:

It is the same feeling as our "Adventskalender"! So much fun! But today I also made my daily tile using string 203 (Mary Ellen Calhoun). Here it is:

There are a lots of patterns in this! I use to have three or four patterns, but now they are overwhelmig the tile and me. Don´t know why... But I like to do this and I am excited where this will lead... The patterns are: Reel (Lily Moon), Shiraz (Linda Farmer), Hollibaugh, Shattuck (!), Jetties, Diva Dance and some perfs.

On the Second day...

It is special with these 3Zs tiles! The outcome is something else, nonpredictable, at least for me. It is fun to play with this size! The second day little Bijou brought Diva Dance!

My tile started with the Foxtrot and ended up in a little Rock n´ Roll! the two tiles so far goes fine together:

Now I have to cut some more triangles to be able to continue this game!:)

12 days of X-mas

On the first day of 3Zs... Is something that happens at Rick and Maria´s blog. I have seen it last year happening. Now I´ll try to follow it and this year it is all about the triangle format.  Here is my first post for this occasion:

The tangle for today is Tripoli.