Weekly Challenge #302: "UMT Hamadox by Diana Schreur CZT"

this week as the first Monday of every month is a Use My Tangle (UMT) it means that we have to use a tangle proposed by one of us. This month's UMT is Hamadox by Diana Schruer, and you can see the step outs here. It's a beautiful mix between Hamail of Tina Akua Hunziker and Rick and Maria's Paradox.

At first it was not easy for me to use Hamadox. Finally i used Hamadox starting from a triangle. I added a touch of aquafleur, shadows and highlights. I am currently interested by shading and 3D effects.

Once the drawing is finished, it becomes difficult to find the starting Hamadox tangle.

Thank you for your comments. have a nice week end !

Weekly Challenge #300

Three Hundred weeks ago Laura began her Zentangle Challenge after the birth of Artoo his second child with Moebius Syndrome.
This week is Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day. Laura proposes us to use the Moebius Syndrome Foundation's logo as our string.

Copying this logo was difficult for me. I drew a ribbon with the tangle "Lolly Wimple" and many beads of courage for Artoo.

Have a good week !

Weekly Challenge #299: "New Official Tangle: Drawings"

This week Laura proposes for the challenge a new tangle named "Drawings". It's is an interesting tangle !

I discovered it and tried it on december. But i draw a new tile for this week where i train me in shading ! 

There is my tile of the day:

That is the tile i drew on december :

Laura told us that in Canada where she lives, it was very cold. In France also it is a very cold period even if the temperatures are not comparable !

Have a great week !

Weekly Challenge #298: "UMT - Orbs-la-Dee by Anneke van Dam

Happy new year ! I hope this  period of festivities was very pleasant for you. I took advantage of my holidays to tangle a lot and train in the shade.

This week as the first monday of every month it's a UMT challenge that means we have to use a tangle created by one of us. This time it's Orbs-la-Dee, a tangle proposed by Anneke Van DAM. you can see the step outs here.

It's a very beautiful tangle and I had a lot of fun discovering it.

The top left Tangle is a first attempt where I was wrong. But since there is no mistake in Zentangle art it became a new pattern!

Thank you very much for visiting my blog!

Heureuse année 2017 à tous les Zentanglers !

Je souhaite à tous les zentanglers une nouvelle année pleine de découverte et de créativité. J'invite tous ceux qui visiteront cette page à venir partager cette passion ! Heureuse année 2017 ! 

Voici le dessin initial métamorphosé par Photoshop !

Weekly Challenge #296: "UMT - Moowa by Anya Ipsen, CZT"

As the first Monday of every month on the divas'blog is a Use My Tangle Challenge, where the challenge of the week is to use a tangle created by one of us! This week we have to use MOOWA, tangle proposed by Anya Ipsen. You can find the step out's for this tangle HERE.

At first this tangle evoques me High surging waves but finally in this tile my interpretation is rather vegetal, an imaginary garden ... with Rixty, Tipple, Zinger.

Thank you very much for visiting my blog !

Weekly Challenge #295: "Reticula/Fragment part 2"

This week the challenge is again about Reticula and fragments. As another step we have to choose a design that is asymmetrical. Then if we alternate our design inside the grid we have drawn, we will create another more complex pattern! 

That is my grid this week. It is the design made by the tiles in my kitchen: 

This grid needs two fragments one having the shape of a double-pointed arrow the other the shape of a square.

For my first drawing i use  this  fragment:                

That is the intermediate step:

The square fragment :

and the final tile :

I tried another combination of fragments :

Intermediate step

Square fragment  (D4 in the Primer book)

Final Tile

My favorite tile is the second ! and you?

 

As i wrote  past week, i bought the book of Rick and Maria "Zentangle PRIMER vol 1" and i received it saturday by mail. i'm very happy, it's very interesting for me. I have already learned a lot of new knowledge that I think, will make me progress.

Thank you very much for your comment. Have a good week end !

Weekly Challenge #294: Reticula/Fragment Beginning

"Reticula and Fragments" is the theme of this new challenge. Rick and Maria introduced these two terms in their new book Zentangle Primer Volume 1.

Laura in her blog explains it like that :

"Reticula is the term for a grid, but not just the square grid like the checkerboard, but an encompassing term for all the zentangle grids. ... So with Reticula being the term for grids, fragments, then, are the pattern drawn inside each square or facet of the grid. "

I have not yet read this book but it made me want to buy it. I'm waiting for it.

Here is a quite complicated grid that I discovered on a ceramic :

the fragment i used:

and the final work:

Thank you very much for your comment. Have a good week!

Weekly Challenge #293: "Keeko, you know!"

This week, Challenge is to use the tangle "Keeko". Laura on her blog drew a monotangle but It was not compulsory. I preferred to integrate this motif in a more diversified design. I'm not very dexterous for this tangle even if it seems simple.

I wanted to draw curves! 

J'avais envie de faire des courbes !

Have a good week !

Weekly Challenge #292: "UMT - EAXY by Nadine Roller, CZT

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 week's Tangle is courtesy of Nadine Roller, a CZT from Germany.

It's EAXY tangle that You can find the step outs here.

It was for me  difficult to draw because it was so very geometric! There are two tests with colors in the first tile and with double border in the second. 

Fill with colors completely changed the appearence of this tangle.

On the second tile I used it a lot with a single row, it was much easier!

Have a great weekend !

Weekly Challenge #291: "Happy Halloween!"

This week's challenge is to create a Halloween themed tile. "If that's not something we take part in or we're into, we can also do a white on black tile" specify Laura on her Diva's Blog.

I chose to draw on a black background, but I have difficulty with white gel pens. Gel does not apply easily and pens dry up very quickly. For shading I used a white color pencil.

J'ai choisi de dessiner sur un fond noir, mais j'ai des difficultés avec les crayons de gel blanc. Ce gel ne s'applique pas facilement et les crayons s’assèchent très rapidement. Pour faire les ombres j'ai utilisé un crayon de couleur blanc.

This pumpkin is ready for Cinderella's carriage !

Cette citrouille est prête pour le carrosse de Cendrillon !

Have a great week!