Weekly Challenge #247: "UMT: African Artist by Tina-Akua Hunziker, CZT"

It's the first week of december so it's a UMT challenge. UMT means 'Use My Tangle'. This week is a tangle named  'African Artist' proposed by Tina, a friend of Laura. To see this tangle step by step go to Tina's blog by clicking here.

This is my drawing for this week. What do you think about?

Thank you very much for your comment.

Weekly Challenge #244: "Tripoli Triptastic"

Cette semaine le challenge consiste à utiliser le motif 'Tripoli'. Laura sur son site 'I'm the Diva' donne quelques astuces pour dessiner Tripoli. n'hésitez pas à le consulter.

This week we have to use the tangle  'TRIPOLI'.

Je suis française, aussi avant de passer au Challenge je voulais rappeler à tous nos amis  que pour tous les français ce week-end a été une horreur, un vrai carnage commis par des bouchers qui ont tué ou blessé grièvement des centaines de jeunes dans une salle de spectacle, sur des terrasses de café, à la porte du stade de France. Notre gouvernement a décrété l'état d'urgence et trois jours de deuil. Cela nous touche tous profondément. Tous ces jeunes et toutes ces familles si cruellement atteintes! Les 129 personnes décédées appartenaient à 18 nationalités différentes d'après les renseignements fournis par le ministère de l'intérieur.

I'm french so before i participate in this challenge i wanted to write about the terribles events of this week-end in Paris. I wrote in french because it's easier for me. Perharps Google will be able to help you for traduction... I want just to express my anger and my great sadness for all these young people who lost their live.

In the first tile is a black tripoli variation.

J'ai fait un premier dessin avec Tripoli en noir. 

In the second tile other variation with grey corner.

Dans mon deuxième dessin je n'ai pas pu m'empêcher d'y apporter une variation en noircissant les angles des triangles.

Weekly Challenge #241: Guest post "Stones and Ceremony"

This week challenge is proposed by a Guest of Laura, Paula BRAMANTE.

The theme is: Stones and Ceremony.

I did'nt understand very well but never mind ! For further explanations, click here !

What is it? I don't know.

Weekly Challenge #238: "UMT - Tri-bee by Beate Winkler, CZT"

Cette semaine il s'agit d'un UMT challenge, ce qui veut dire un challenge 'utilise mon tangle'. Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas, chaque premier lundi du mois il s'agit de dessiner à partir d'un motif (tangle) proposé par l'un des participants. Cette semaine il faut utiliser 'TRI-Bee' proposé par Beate Winkler un professeur CZT d'Allemagne. 

Cela a été pour moi un tangle très agréable à découvrir.

This week is a UMT challenge, it means a "Use My Tangle Challenge". For those of you who are new, the first Monday of every month is a Use My Tangle Challenge, where the challenge of the week is to use a tangle created by one of us! 

This month we must use Tangle called Tri-Bee created by Beate Winkler, a CZT teacher from Germany.

You can see this step by step tangle on her blog clicking here. 

This was for me a very pleasant tangle to discover.

Pour finir j'en ai fait une sorte de patchwork en associant ces deux dessins.

Lastly I made a kind of patchwork combining these two tiles.

Thank you very much for your comment. You know how it's pleasant to have some comments.

Weekly Challenge #235: "String Theory: Stripes"

Cette semaine le défi proposé par Laura, "the Diva" est tout simplement de dessiner à partir de simples rayures comme lignes directrices. C'est agréable de revenir de temps en temps aux choses les plus simples.

"This week's challenge is to take our pencil and draw stripes across your tile or paper to create your string. Simple as that. "

I found pleasant to draw from  so simple strings.

Weekly Challenge #234: UMT - CanT by Chris Titus, CZT

This week is a UMT challenge that means a challenge when the diva shares a tangle created by one of us. it's "CANT" this day, a tangle created by Chris TITUS, a CZT.

I draw it for the first time. It seemed to me that this tangle was interesting because he allowed numerous variations. I made my first try with a white gel pen on black paper. I added some green o the end.

My second project was using this pattern on a sphere. I tried color and finally I preferred the more sober black and white. I prefer the first sphere and you ?

Thank you very much for your comments.

Weekly Challenge #233: "New Official Tangle - Zenith"

This week the DIVA is back. She proposes us a challenge with a new tangle "ZENITH". I enjoyed discovering this new pattern.

Weekly Challenge #232 Guest Blogger Holly Atwater, CZT

This week the Guest Blogger is Holly Atwater. She proposes us two challenges. The first one is an audio challenge. It's not for me because i don't  know well English, the second with the tangle 'Betweed'.

So i chose the second and decided to use 'Betweed' as a string. But look for it ! I think  I made a mistake. It does not matter, BETWEED is still the source the tile.

Currently I am on vacation and I have fun with Photoshop. Here are two proposals of colorized versions.

Colorisé avec photoshop.

Version noire et blanc colorisée avec un filtre photoshop.

Thank you very mush for your comments.

En français, langue que je maîtrise mieux bien sûr!  : Cette semaine, l'invitée du blog de la diva nous propose deux challenge. le premier est un challenge audio, mais ce n'est pas pour moi car je ne suis pas assez bonne en anglais, le second avec le tangle 'BETWEED'.

j'ai donc choisi le secon et j'ai décidé d'utiliser 'BETWEED' comme une ficelle (structure, cadre de mon dessin...). mais cherchez bien BETWEED, je crois que je me suis trompée. Cela ne fait rien, BETWEED est bien à l'origine de cette réalisation.

Actuellement, je suis en vacances, aussi j'en profite pour m'amuser avec Photoshop: Voici deux versions colorisées de mon dessin.

Weekly Challenge #231: "The Undulating Tangles in C and S minor"

This week the guest Blogger,Charla HICKS proposes us to use an old favorite undulating C or S curve tangle and work in a series OR find a new one and begin a new series.

I used 'Sharla Rella' and i liked to shade this tangle and to see shapes appear as and as I drew.

Colorisé avec Photoshop

Thank you for your comments.

Weekly Challenge #230: "Let’s all be ZenDivaDala"

This week the guest Blogger  proposes us a zendala challenge. You can see template of zendala on the diva's website. I wanted to be inspired by Chinese lanterns that so much fascinated me during my trip in Asia in July.

I made several tries from the same initial pattern having previously photocopied the drawing. I had fun with Photoshop to colorise the black and white tiles.

Thank you for your comments.

My zentangle gallery is on Flickr : https://www.flickr.com/gp/a-revoir/y85a5m

Weekly Challenge #229 Guest Blogger Sandy Hunter, CZT

This week The Diva is still on vacation. The guest Blogger Sandy Hunter launched this challenge: "Shift your focus to the negative space, so the white part of your tile is the focus of your tangle". 

Like Sandy Hunter, I tend to make my tangles really busy because I do not succeed to stop to tangle, i always try other pattern. many times i decided to leave a white area as the focus of my drawing and each time I found these designs more balanced : The following are two examples of these tests :

In my opinion, this tile seemed too busy.

I tried the same one with the central area left white :

I prefer this second version.  And you ?

Another drawing done in 4 parts. The central area is a tree ( highly stylized indeed with branches and roots) :

I'm going to tangle a new one this week. But often it's difficult for me  to finish by Friday evening.

Thank you for your comments.