Diva Challenge #317 Picture as String

Wow! Time flies. It has been seven months since I have posted here. I have been busy and hope to share some new things with you. This year I am excited about exploring book making, Gelli printing and journaling with mixed media.

But first we will start with Diva's 317th Challenge of "picture as a string." I saw my first blue bird while down in Virginia where I was helping my sister out after she fell and broke her arm. She is well, on the mend now and I am just recently home so this tile will be a good reminder of where I was when I first spotted this lovely bird.

Eastern Blue Bird, Diva Dance, Antidots, Mooka, and Bubbles

Challenge #246 Plant a Tree

Plant a tree, create a forest! We Zentanglers can do that instantly with pen and paper. My Tall and Small trees for the forest. The first one was done as a practice on a piece of scrap paper (when will I learn.)

Winter Tree Diva Dance

Black and White Tree Pixiose

            Tree with a little wash of color      

Small tree with Prestwood and Verve

                      

Challenge #230 Guest Star Erin Olsen!

The Diva (Laura Harms has been away for a while on a well deserved vacation from her blog with her adorable family). We have missed her in the past weeks, although I did meet up with her at CanTangle in Regina Saskatchewan, Canada. She blew my socks off with her danc'n and pranc'n and having a good ole time with the Zentangle. She is a lovely soul with a different take on how things could be done. I respect that and even had a few dance moves myself, even if they were from the chair. They count!

So Erin Olson was a guest blogger this week.  She has her own site that mainly has to do with Zendalas. You can find her at TheBrightOwl.blogspot.com, where she will challenge you to stretch and find some fun with her templates.  This weeks template is here:

And this is what I did with it.

I have been a little obsessed with Margaret Bemners new tangle Pixioze , and of course I could not leave out Diva Dance Rock and Roll and a bit of Screen.

Weekly Challenge #174: Superimposing Strings

As I sit at my "art table" and look around me I see two pencil cases with 36 - 90 pencils each, three good sized pencil boxes filled with microns and other inky pens, a large box of water colors and a desk set of Tombow markers not to mention all the different types of paper I have on hand.  I have been thinking for a while that I need to get back to the basics.

There is something that frees up the mind when you only consider a 3.5 X 3.5 square of fabulous paper, a pencil, and a black micron. This is what this challenge reminded me, go back to the basics. It seemed so easy and I finished without much thought. It came to fruition in about twenty minutes. With all the tools I have available to me comes chaos, skepticism, and frustration. I think it is time to clear the table and make things peaceful again.

I chose two strings at random from the tangle pattern web site without looking first, #7 and #24. Together they looked like this:

Even though there were so many strings I could not possibly use them all, I chose what felt pleasing to me and  ended up with this tile which I like very much.

Quabog, Onamoto, Diva Dance, Windfarm, Garlic

It is the simple things that make one happy. I need to remember that!

Weekly Challenge #159: "Top O' the Morning"

I don't know why it took me so long to complete this challenge, but maybe I should not have even attempted. Here are my two very colored, silly top o' the morning tiles.

Silly Tangly Rainbow

Onomato, Golven, Tagh, Diva Dance, Printemps, Ambler, Munchin

 Clover Leaf

Hollibaugh, Printemps (warning,do not use cheap drugstore gel pens!)

Weekly Challenge #158: "Duotangle: Diva Dance + Crescent Moon"

These two tangles are similar and I was unsure how to put them together so you could tell them apart but, I don't think it really matters. I like the result.

Diva Dance & Cresent Moon

Weekly Challenge #155: "A Little White Space"

I like a little space. White space, clean empty space, takes on a shape of it's own.

Jonqal, Diva Dance, Black Pearlz, Amaze

A little something for my son on his 24th birthday.  Happy Birthday Dylan!

Unryu fine paper 25"x18", brown and black micron, Copada, Vega, Shattuck, Flux, Tagh, Ragz, Fescu, Meer, Verve, Hibred, Diva Dance, quilt leaves, 'Nzeppel