My result on PP03 !

PP03 was quite a challenge. It has taken some time to finish it but now I am there! This is worth celebrating I belive! I did take pics during the process this time too, which I am happy I didn´t forget! So lets start with the first step:

This was what I started with, the ribbonstring as demonstrated by Molly Hollibaugh.

Filling the ribbons with black pen was fun!...

This is the pic before shading/adding color. I did like this one very much!

I used my watercolorpencils; Madder Crimson and Prussian Blue. And here is my final, finished mosaic! Highligted with white charcoalpencil and shaded with graphite.

Here came the real challenge for me, the background done in graphite! I am happy I went through all these steps, since I learned a lot from doing this. I could have left it without the graphite-background, but I really wanted to try this technique. The patterns I choose for the background: Echoism and Assunta. First I thought I would only use Echoism,but then I decided to let Assunta be a part of it.

2018; First page in the calendar and Twelve Days of Zentangle!

New Year and a new Calendar. The new one is also designed by Carole Ohl and she has invited a guest artist: Margaret Bremner. I like this calendar even more than the one from last year Mainly because the paper is another quality. It is White and not glossy and in my opinion it is easier to shade and the pen doesn´t slip away because of the surface!

I didn´t really know what to start with at first but then I decided to give Rumpus a round, since I didn´t try it too much before Christmas and I didn´t find it very easy to make it personal. I am glad I gave it a chance, since I found it both fun and relaxing to do! On the 1st of January I tried to follow Maria´s way of doing it on the video adding Toodles and auras too. I also let Dewd surround the whole page.

I haven´t done all of Twelve Days of Zentangle yet. But I intend to do some more.  On the ninth day we should use one black and one tan Bijou. I didn´t have tan ones and only a few black left. And I didn´t want to use one tan 8,9cm tan tile, since I´ve just a couple of these left too and I want to keep them for some other special occasions. But I had another tan heavy-weight paper and fourtunally I had a black one in the same quality so I just cut them into Bijou-size. I think it worked well!

The patterns I used are My Swing (Simone Menzel), Arukas and Nipa. I liked this technique very much and I think I´ll try it again!

Done! Joey´s challenge 9/9!

9 weeks gone! And now is my mosaic done! This has been a great adventure!  Here is my finished mosaic:

All patterns suggested:
week 1: African Artist (Tina Akua Hunziker)
week 2: Merryweather (Sandy Hunter)
week 3: Cruffle (Sandy Hunter)
week 4: Breach (Yu Ru Chen)
week 5: Muscari (Elaine Benfatto)
week 6: Ginilli (Randi Wynne-Parry)
week 7: ´Nzeppel
week 8: Printemps
week 9: Poke Leaf 


The last piece down in the right corner:

The last pattern Joey added was Pokeleaf. Here with Diva Dance, ´Nzeppel and Printemps. I thought of adding more color but then decided not to. This is where it all landed and I am happy with it.

28th-30th of September and Joey´s 7-8/9 challenge

I have been away to Malmö for the weekend and haven´t had much time for tangling. But On the train I made my calendarpage!

I felt like going for Rain (zt), but the lines are wobbling, the train is not a steady place1 I had some fun with it though!

As for Joey´s challenge, I didn´t do them until today, since I wanted to have some peace and quiet doing this. I took my time and made both tiles today:

No. 7/9: The pattern to be added was ´NZeppel! One favourite of mine again! 

No. 8/9: And this time Printemps!

Here is the whole thing so far:

Yes, I added some more pink in African Artist (Tina Aqua Hunziker) and one more Muscari (Elaine Benfatto).

Joey´s 6/9 challenge

Happy Monday, Joey´s challenge! The 6th of 9 tiles. The pattern to use this time was Ginili (Randi Wynne-Parry). I haven´t tried Ginili before, but I have seen it. Such a beautifully flowing pattern! Loved it from the start! Here is my 6th:

The other patterns: Cruffle (Sandy Hunter), Cubine, Tripoli, Diva Dance, Evoke and Tipple. Here is all so far:

Whatever will come on next three, I know one thing: It will come with a lot of fun!

Joey´s challenge 5/9

At last Monday and no 5 in the mosaic-challenge from Joey! A new pattern introduced: Muscari by Elaine Benfatto. Haven´t seen this pattern before!

No 5 means this is the middlesection! I felt like my version of Muscari needed some pink (I admit, I was inspired to do so from my travelling tangles adventure yesterday). Don´t know if this was a good decision or not. Well well, I have to be patient, no rush it is only a week till next tile! Here is my mosaic so far:

Not a good pic, but anyhow it will be better when I can use the daylight, which I will when I take the final pic!

Joey´s challenge 4/9

No 4 is done! This time Joey added a pattern new to me. It is called Breach by Yu Ru Chen. A fun pattern that can go lots of ways!

Breach is easy to learn and I think this pattern will stay in my pile of favourites!The others are: Bales, Nipa, Evoke (all Zentangle) and then Beadlines (Margaret Bremner and some Dewdrops. The Nipa variation is something I wanted to try from Lynn Shelton Mead´s Tangledeck. 

This is like going on a Tangle-trip in more than one way. First just let the string guide the whole design, then unexpected adventures along the way and and having a map (Tangle Decks) in my bag! A lot of fun is going on! Here is the entire pic so far:

Joey´s challenge 3/9

At last I got the time to do this! Joey choose the third pattern to includ to be Cruffle (Sandy Hunter). I love to play with theese orbs and they can change a lot! Here is my tile no 3:

My patterns here are Diva dance, Cadent, Huggins, Tripoli, Fescu, Pookeroot, Cubine and Cruffle. Here is what the mosaic looks like by now:

Love to do this, it excites me a lot since I like surprises! I don´t know where it is going! One question has grown in my mind: Among these patterns my own choices are official zentanglepatterns except one... how come?

Joey´s weekly part 2 and some surprises

The first surprise today. I got a pre-birthday-gift! Something that I really wanted but found too expensive! The zentangle-app! I haven´t discovered everything yet, but I have seen some interesting videos that are soo inspiring! I am so grateful! Today is a beautiful day. Joey has published part two of the 9-tilechallenge and this was a surprise too! She wanted us to add Merryweather (Sandy Hunter), which happens to be another of my favourites! Here is the result:

I went on with  African Artist (Tina Hunziker), Cadent (Zt), Merryweather, Tripoli (Zt) and Diva Dance(ZT). Left an empty space, which I am not sure will be an emty space in the end! But I felt like leaving it like this

It is so fun to put the tiles together! I had to take a second alloverpic.

I found out quickly that the size of all tiles together is the same size as one Opus-tile. I have cut one myself sometime ago, but not dared to go for it yet. But Joey´s challenge gave me the courage and an idea how to manage this and still use the zentanglemethod, no planning, just be in it and see what happens next. It is so fun! I love it. Don´t know where it leads that will be another surprise but here is what happened so far:

I leave the shading till I have done the whole piece, since I also leave the decision about color or not. One stroke at a time. No rush. Exactly the same method I use working on ordinary tiles. I find this so relaxing and satisfying.

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.