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.

Weekly Challenge #228: GUEST BLOGGER Cari Sultanik, CZT

This week the instructions are given to us by Cari Sultanick while the Diva is on vacation. This challenge must celebrates all things natural and organic.

I use first LINQ pattern that i had just discovered. I think that in my drawing it looks like a snake. What do you think of it ?

Thank you for your comments.

Weekly Challenge #223: "Official Tangle - UMBLE"

Cette semaine le challenge est d'utiliser le Tangle officiel "Umble" de Rick et Maria

J'ai quelques difficultés à traduire l'anglais aussi je n'ai pas compris pourquoi ce tangle était à la fois ancien et nouveau. Carl Sultanik l'a utilisé dans le précédent challenge et je l'ai découvert ainsi. j'ai fait différents essais en utilisant diverses techniques j'ai fait deux dessins en noir et blanc, le premier me semblait trop chargé. j'ai essayé un dessin en couleur avec des crayons feutres. en dernier je me suis servi des limites extérieures de chaque arc comme fil conducteur et j'ai expérimenté le crayon aquarellable pour l'arrière-plan.

This week the challenge is to use the official Rick and Maria's "Umble" tangle. 

I have some difficulties in translating English so I do not understand why this tangle was both old and new. Cari Sultanik used it in the previous challenge and I discovered it for the first time. I did various tests using various techniques I made two drawings in black and white, the first one seemed too overloaded. I tried a color drawing with markers. last I used the outer limits of each arc as thread and I experienced the watercolor pencil for background.

Thank you for tour comments. 

Weekly Challenge #222: "Colours of the Rainbow!"

This week Diva's challenge is to use multi colours - "use 'em if you got 'em!" .

As the diva I used gel pens (SIGNO) on a black paper. With gel pens I always feel a little limited because lines cannot be as fine as i would like and I do not know how to make shadows.

Thank you for your comments which are every time so encouraging!

Click here If you are interested in my collection of Zentangle on Flickr

Weekly Challenge #221: "Beads of Courage"

This week the DIVA Challenge 's theme is inspired by beads of Courage.

Beads of Courage is an Arts in Medicine that supports kids with chronic or life threatening illnesses and their families. These kids are amazing. And they more often than not have to deal with a lot on a daily basis. They see a lot of doctors, and on this program instead of getting a sticker or a lollipop for getting a needle or an X-Ray, or a test of some kind, they'd get a glass bead to represent that part of their medical journey.

We can use beads as inspiration for our string, or for inspiration for our tangles,


So to celebrate the great courage of Artoo , the children as him and their parents I drew a very big bead more precious than a glass bead because it is about a beard of tangles.