Travelling Tangles: October-Swap

For October there were two themes offered from Sabrina Kirjavainen: Breastcancer awareness and drawing with the Non Dominant Hand. I got so exciting tiles from my swapping partners. The first one came from Michele Wynne, California :

She also gave me an empty ATC to finish. That one I will save a little more!

And here is my finish on her amazing background! I went on with her Dreamcatcher (Daniel Lamothe) and added Lolly Wimple (Sandy Hunter), Tagh, Tipple and Shattuck.

Next Swap came from Tharina Etsebeth, South Africa. She had made one with the nondominant hand and one for the breastcancer awareness. The first one with her nondominant hand:

Her patterns: Diva Dance and Athitzi B4 Seven.  She told me that everything on this tile, from the dots in the corners, the string, to her writing on the back of the tile was entirely made with her left hand! Amazing!

As you can see, my lines are much more uncontrolled! I added Nipa (with straight lines only), Tipple, Fescu and Antidots (Anita Roby-Laverý). It was quite an experience doing this!

Her second tile:

She used the ribbon as a string and tangled with Claws (Elena Hadzitjaneva) and Tipple.

I am still using my old camera and didn´t get the exposure as I wanted. That makes a difference but as you can see she had made a lovely start. How to continue on that?!? At last I went on with a tangleation on Florz, Zinger, Fescu and Widgets (Kate Ahrens).

The third one came from Nathalie Marinoff. Also one with the non-dominant hand:

A lovely start with Echoism, Flux and a little Fescu. One more chance with my left shaky hand! I start to fall in love with shaky lines!

I made some more Echoism and Flux, then added Tagh, Betweed and some more Fescu. I tried to make some shading too, even if it was difficult! I had so fun!

The last one came from Dusty Darrah, Colorado:

This tile maybe was the most difficult for me to finish but very exciting. The difficulty was about the surface. Dusty didn´t say but I belive her surface must have been done with something that didn´t cooperate on some spots with some of my pens. She had started with a ribbon,Luv-A and Morning Glories.

I went on with Wacho (Livia Chua),Meer, Crescent Moon, Cubine and Florz. I also added blue with Soft color pencils.

What a wonderful and adventurous swapping month of October this have been!

After Work

Today was one of the most beautiful days of autumn here. Sun was shining and the temperature was about +12 C. Not windy at all. So we were working in the garden most of the afternoon, together with our two dogs. What could be better after having dinner than sit down making todays zentangle? I went for IAST no 168 this week. The string reminded me of another string I have tried a couple of times String 95.

The patterns this time were Tira (Ragged Ray), Fang (Celia Norman) and Florz. Florz is a pattern I have done a lot the two otheres were new to me. Both were easy to learn and relaxing to do. Fang was maybe my favourite this time!

With interruptions!

The Rennaisance-tile is something I do have to practice a lot I belive. I used it today for Joey´s challenge no. 136. 

The quality of the paper is different from white tiles. The surface is softer and the shading has to be done much lighter, or not done at all. Or did I miss something? I have seen a lot of beautiful rennaisancetiles done. When I see my own effort I know I have to go on to improve. But this tile is done during other circumstances than I am used to. Iris, our puppy has been around trying to eat my studio! The interrupts are many, my focus is not what it should be. Another thing happened. When I should pic up my camera I found out that she had eaten upp the USB connection between the computer and the camera! My God! Lucky for me I found another camera which I haven´t used for years, so I reloaded the battery to that one and also found the USB ok. So I have been disturbed enough today. But here is the tile anyway. Patterns: Fracas, Onamato, Pokeroot and Maria´s variation on Flux! I had to try that since I never have given it a chance really after I fell in love with the variation of Rick!

Flux vs N´Zeppel

Two original Zentangles, Flux and N´Zeppel, are in the Diva´s challenge no 290 this week. Both are beautiful patterns and both are very often in use. I like to draw them too and have done that a lot. As I had one leftover from the leaf-challenge, I turned it into a Duotangle for this week. With color.

This is an ATC-size, which I don´t use too often. Next try with the Duo Flux and N´Zeppel, I made as an original Zentangle on original tile 9x9 cm.

The string is no. 182. There are two ways to choose between when it is about Flux. The Maria-way or the Rick-way as you can see here. Both way to draw it has it´s own caracter, but I mostly choose the Rick-way of doing it.

Tagh

Tagh is an official zentangle from Maria Thomas and Rick Roberts. Now it is the focustangle in Square One. That´s one of interesting things with this Fb-group, patterns you once learned comes up and get a new chance! I haven´t used Tagh since I learned it. No particular reason, but I then didn´t get a relation to that pattern. Now I took the chance to get one! First I made it on a white tile:

I used string 181 and LO´s (mine). There is something else to but I am not sure what it is! That happens in zentangle: you don´t always know if you have drawn a pattern that is someone elses or not!  I loved to try different shadings on Tagh this time! Tagh is so easy to learn and so easy to make variations on! And very relaxing! I have a feeling that Tagh will become more special to me after having it in focus. So yesterday evening I made a black tile as well:

My own string dissapeared almost here. Dreamcatcher (Daniel Lamothe) and Tipple came along. Black tiles are special to me. I need them.

In the moment

Life changes. We have a new member in our family. A puppy of three month has arrived into our home yesterday. Her name is Iris and she is sweet from the nose to the tip of her tail! Our Pumi, Bisse, is 14 month and she has until now been the centerpoint here. She isn´t any more and that creates a real mezz! We´ll have to reorganize ourselves and our way of living for some time. It is fun but it also means a lot of work! So this morning when I got a moment for myself I sat down tangling, doing the IAST challenge 167, I needed to focus on something else! 

Two to me new patterns in this challenge: Ponio (Mei Hua Teng) and Winflo (Nadine Roller). Yesterday I had no chance to tangle. But I did use my sketchbook, trying to learn these two. They were simple to learn, but I had to struggle a little to make them my own (tangling in the car and in my bed before going to sleep)! Here is the result. I didn´t try to keep it simple. I had to do that, since there wasn´t time for anything else! But I loved to do it and I loved the outcome. To be in the moment, not in the past nor in the future is what I really must care about. When it comes to a little puppy, a junior Pumi and whatever that is what is necessary!
Thank´s to zentangle, it helps me to stay on that path!   

Autumnleaves now and then

When I look back one year ago today I found that I tangled Autumn Leaves. It was for the Diva´s challenge. Here they are:

Today I also tangled the same theme for Diva´s challenge no 289! I didn´t know I made it on the same day! The tile for today is different of course:

I am not surprised I used Leaflet (Helen Williams) in both tiles, since that is a favouritepattern of mine! The other patterns for todays tile are Lief (SSB), Diva Dance and Tipple.

To use leafs for tangling is not only fun it is also very meditative. At least for me. Leaves they come and go and their beauty are on the highest level short before they disappear and go back to soil. This time I made a print (gold stampink) of Aronialeaf and used that as a string. As I made it a print, the thought appeared in my head, that this special leaf will go on exsisting out in cyberspace as a picture - forever! Whow!