Learning to tangle with Zentangle®: January 2016

Monday, 25 January 2016

Diva's Weekly Challenge#252-""String Theory: Tangle within a tangle"

This week's challenge is to use a tangle as our string.

I chose one of my favorite among the weave tangles, W2(Warp and Weft).

So this is my String tile.

I used Arukas, Onamato and W2 as tangles. W2 inside W2.. yes like inception.. mathematically speaking its like recursion..

Here's my tile before and after shading.

Let's keep tangling!!

You can view the other entries for the challenge on Diva's blog

http://www.iamthedivaczt.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/weekly-challenge-252.html

It's my First Zentangle Anniversary!!!

Oh My God!! I can not believe it's been a year already. Jan 24th was my First Anniversary with the Zentangle Method®.

So here's my tile celebrating it.. Some Heartrope, Luv-a and Bijouism "Gratitude"

I am so thankful to Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas for sharing the Zentangle Method® with all, I would also like to thank my teacher CZT® Dilip Patel for introducing me to the beautiful world of Zentangle

Wednesday, 20 January 2016

"It's A String Thing!"#128

For "It's a String Thing" #128, Adele selected TanglePatterns String 129 by Nancy Smith

This week's tangles include:

Hypnotic by Elena Hadzijaneva - I had never done 'Hypnotic' before. A very simple, fun-to-do tangle!

Paradox by Rick Roberts, Zentangle® co-founder

Adele was also kind enough to provide her tips for tangling both patterns.

Here is my tile.

Let's keep tangling!

The tiles entered for this challenge are published on mondays on Adele Bruno's blog
http://tickledtotangle.blogspot.co.uk/

Diva's Weekly Challenge#251-"Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day"

This week's challenge is to raise awareness for the Moebius Syndrome.

Moebius Syndrome is a congenital nerve disorder which affects 1-2 in 1,000,000 people.

Yes! Even I did not know about it till today! Diva's younger son Artoo was diagnosed with Moebius Syndrome when he was born.

This Sunday, January 24, is Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day.

So the Diva asked us to use the Moebius Syndrome Foundation's logo as our string, or create a Moebius strip out of paper and tangle that...

I chose to use the logo. I have tangled around the logo rather than use it as a string.

My obvious choice of tangle pattern was Diva Dance. The Diva's strength as a mother is just so amazing!! I wanted to do this tile as a tribute to her.

The colour for MSAD is Purple. I have used my Staedtler purple fine liner

Here's my tile.

You can view the other entries for the challenge on Diva's blog

http://www.iamthedivaczt.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/weekly-challenge-251.html

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Diva's Weekly Challenge#250 - Bringing it Back to the Old School

This week's challenge is for us to go back to the roots of Zentangle®.

We had to create a piece on a WHITE 3.5" square tile, with a Black pen and pencil for shading, the way the Zentangle® method initially started.

So I started with a very simple String. I decided to use the first 2 official Zentangle original tangles I could think of. Cubine, Pokeroot!!

It was very relaxing not to have to think about which color to choose, about how I wanted it to turn out.. Just simply putting the pen to the paper and drawing each line.
Like Laura said, its all about THE PROCESS not the product!

Here is my string and my completed tile