13th-15th of May and also a celebration-tile.

I think I like to use my calendar now and then for challenges. Now is the busy time of the year in the garden which means not so much time for tangling or anything else but being outdoors with my fingers in the soil. But look, I have helpers:

Iris the Pumi is a great gardener! 

In lack of time, the calendar is perfect! I like to follow the Diva´s challenge very much and opening my calendar I have the possibility! So here comes my entry for Challenge 363:

The challenge is all about auras and I like doing auras. The patterns for this challenge just happened to pop up: Trio (Hanny Nura), Crescent moon (Zt), Somnee (Laura Harms), Axlexa (Henrike Bratz), Meer (Zt) and Shnek (Hanny Nura).

In Today´s Tangles we have now 3000 members! Celebrating this we made prompts relating to the Zentangle method. Today I started off with the first prompt: 

1. Gratitude and Appreciation.  As you sit down to tangle with a clean tile, appreciate the opportunity to tangle, knowing that you are an artist, even if you never thought of yourself as one, because Zentangle came into your life. If you have the Zentangle Primer: Volume 1, appreciate the basic patterns we’re first taught. With this in mind, use the tangles CRESCENT MOON, SHATTUCK, SNAIL, W2 and/or CADENT in a monotangle or any combination of the five.

I used Cadent, which gave me the oportunity to try Margaret Bremners tangleation Cadent Squared. Also I went for Snail, a tangle I haven´t used since I learned it! Almost forgotten, but this easy tangle is so nice to draw! One of the most important thing following the Zentanglemethod is Appreciation. And Gratitude. To appreciate the moment. To be aware of this: There are no misstakes in Zentangle. When an OOps appear, this is a great opportunity to go in another direction. I love this!

7th-12th of May and Diva´s challenge 362

Soul Star (Sonya Yencer) was a fun tangle to learn and draw! Every single one lives it´s own life! I didn´t plan to make it go on for three days, but it did!

10th-11th I made the Diva´s Challenge 362, which is UMT for May. UMT means "Use My Tangle" and this month Laura has her birthday and celebrated it with her own tangle Somnee which has the focus for three days in my calendar too! Had not tried this one before but I liked it a lot and I guess it won´t be my last! I loved to combine it with some other friends: Tipple, Balloya (Anya Lothrop) and Dansk (Margaret Bremner). Thank you Laura for presenting Somnee to us!

Exhibition opening 12th of May!

This post is not about zentangle especially. Some patterns are to be seen though! tomorrow is the opening of the exhibition "Konst vid Rättviken" and this evening me and my friend Inger Meyer finished our collaborative work. We hope the weather will be fine tomorrow at the opening event at 12:00. Here comes some pictures:

One before pic:

The rest from tonight:

Close ups:

When we were finished Inger found these small mandalas beside the big one! We don´t know who made them, but we loved to find them!

The mandala will have a name: "Altering the News"

4th-6th of May

Wonderful Caracole (Lily Moon) spins all three days. This pattern is a new favourite of mine! Hard to stop once started! I think it is more of a reticula in my mind.

This morningmeditation resulted in Soulstar (Sonya Yencer) for Square One:

Flux and Fescu also joined. I like the pattern, it can be embellished in so many ways and it is easy to learn.

More LZ´s

Wanted to try LZ´s on a tan surface. I have seen people use only white charcoal/gellypen and pencil, no black and it looks interesting. Here is my first try doing this:

The surprise is the depth you can get with such simple tools!I think LZ´s works fine with layers too. One Antidot (Anita Roby Lavery), Tipple and a sort of Beadline.

1st-3rd of May and a new pattern LZ´s!

One never knows where or when a pattern will appear in front of you that just has to be deconstructed! This happened to me a while ago, when I saw a lamp in a designstore. I didn´t take a pic of it, but I immediately made a sketch on a piece of paper I found. As soon as I had a chance I started to play with it in my sketchbook. I let it stay there, I wasn´t sure if this could be something to go on with - could it be to simple? But I liked it and 1st of May I started to do it in my calendar:

Almost immediately an Oops appeared! That was what I was waiting for! A new possible variation! I love when things goes like that! (Oh Yes, Someone dear to me left a note in my calendar without me knowing it!)This pattern could be drawn very freely or very regular. And there are a lot of possible embellishment to do. Or just shading. I had to try it on a tile:

No name yet, just a work-name! Here as a background to Onamato (Zt) and LO´s (mine). As Sandy Kelley Jones saw this she had the right name for it: LZ´s! Thank´s for the help Sandy! And here comes the Step-Out:

Very easy do draw! And in zentangle are NO misstakes, just possibilities! Hope you will enjoy this!

I am the Diva´s challenge for Amanda Day - Earth Day

This challenge is all about recycling which I do as soon as I get the possibility to do! Watch Laura´s video here. Here is my work on a recycled wine-box:

I cut the tile simply with my siccors as Laura did.

Here is the result! The "sun" is Caracole (lily Moon Luna) filled with fragments and Tagh. The "sunbeams" are filled with Dorsal (mine).