Challenge #222 All the colors in the rainbow

To represent Pride week we are using all the colors! Not sure I should have used them all in one tile but here you have it:

Abundies, Zedbra, Cruffle, Wud, (not sure if the atlternate lines have a name) Black Pearlz.

Colored with irojiten pencils and white gelly roll

Now that I am looking at it on the screen, I may go in and blacken the top.

Challenge #206 Tangling with new tools

I must admit, I think I have to much on my plate as I am not getting to all the things I had planned for this long hard winter. I did not take into account that the simple task of walking the dog would become harder and take much longer in the winter muck. Driving to the store or even taking the train for errands takes up so much time in the winter snow and ice. I find I am starting to remove some things off my list but also have added "going to the gym" daily as a must do, so some good things are happening.

Our challenge this week is to use other tools then what we are used to for tangling. I believe it was at the Last Tangle U in Portland Maine that Marie Browning from Tombow had taught us to use black tiles with a stylus and colored pencils. I have not revisited that since so I thought it might be a good time to try it again. Color is always and issue for me, so I am not very pleased with the final result and the scan of this tile does not represent it's true colors, but I do believe the more I do the better I will get. Experiment and "grow my color muscle" so to speak.

The celtic knot was one borrowed from Jean Chamberlin Theurkauf's blog post on Celtic knots http://artofthetangle.com/celtic-knots-tangling-coloring/

And the background is printemps. Design was "drawn" on with a stylus then color with Irojiten pencils was added over it. You can see Marie's work HERE