Inktober 2019; Hump Day 15, 16, 17; Refresher 205

The theme for Hump Day #15 is Ribbons and Chains. The chain in the tile is obvious, but the ribbon got a bit small. It is that line-ish thing at the bottom. Just in case you were wondering. Except for 3D Printemps there is no known tangle in this tile.

Tangle Patterns: Chain links, a tiny ribbon and 3D Printemps

Hump Day #16 ran under the theme "It's Greek to Me". So I made this simple tile using 3D Printemps and Box Spirals and then...

Tangle Patterns: 3D Printemps, Box Spirals

...turned it into a quadruple in Photoshop. Now I like this one a lot better! I made some others, but this one is the most interesting.

Hump Day #17 is running under the theme Australia Inspired. There were a few things that jumped to mind the instant I read the theme:

- Steve Irwin with his world famous shout
- "Crickey!"
- Snakes and
- Australia's Indigenous Dot Art. 

I am/was a huge fan of Steve Irwin and I have to apologize to him and every Australian Indigenous Artist alive for producing such a mediocre tile representing them. Tangles I can name are: Printemps and Liuliu Dashun in the second snake.

Tangle Patterns: Printemps, LiuLiu Dashun

Refresher #205 with tangles Toodles, Danzer, 2A, 03, Heart Flower.

Tangle Patterns: Toodles, Danzer, 2A, 03, Heart Flower

...Inktober 2019 continues from previous post...

Blown Up

...with tile #7 that I call "Blown Up", leaning on the Jake Parker prompt Overgrown, Oct 14. And why 'overgrown' or 'blown up'? Because tiny delicate ribbon tangle Flip (on the left), filled with Yincut, is way too huge for its delicate original stepout. So the tangles used in this Oct 13-15 prompt tile are:

Oct 13 - YinCut (SJ)
Oct 14 - Peek-a- boo Daisy (TAA), Overgrown (JP)
Oct 15 - Flip (PC), Maryhill (SJ)

Tangle Patterns: YinCut, Peek-a-doo Daisy, Flip, Maryhill

PS: The purpose of the ball was to be filled with Iffy, but I forgot all about it. Sorry, Iffy!

Sakura

Inktober 2019 tile #8 is reserved to A-R-U-K-A-S, includes Diva Dance and a whiff of Printemps just to kill the large white space, and it runs under the theme "Sakura". Sakura is not a Jake Parker prompt, but Arukas, spelled backwards, reads Sakura. Also, I found this very ZEN appropriate alternative meaning for A-R-U-K-A-S. Although I am pretty sure this could be applied to almost every tangle name I still list it here:

A is for authentic, be real
R is for relax, you know how!
U is for understanding, you show for others.
K is for kindle, the warmth in others.
A is for accomplished, in all that you do.
S is for serene, your calm time.

Oct 14 - Arukas (SJ)
Oct 19 - Diva Dance (SJ)

Tangle Patterns: Arukas, Diva Dance

Unorganized

I call Inktober 2019 tile #9 "Unorganized" for Jake Parker's prompt "misfit" on day Oct 18. I just added tangles and filled tangles into tangles until I had all 3 tangles of every list from Oct 16-18 placed somewhere. So Misfit is pretty much the perfect theme.

Oct 16 - KaroFlo (PC), Ribbon Rose (TAA), Trentwith (SJ)
Oct 17 - Chimidle (TAA), MagzVine (PC), Dreamdex (SJ)
Oct 18 - Box Sprials (TAA), Sindoo (SJ), Folded (PC), Misfit (JP)

Tangle Patterns: KaroFlo, Ribbon Rose, Trentwith, Chimidle, MagzVine,

Dreamdex, Box Sprials, Sindoo, Folded

Grace

Inktober 20129 tile #10 - "Grace". I hate drawing zendalas, but sometimes you have to jump into the water to learn to swim (enough said). So here the prompts:

Oct 17 - Ornament (JP)
Oct 19 - Zett-Heart (PC)
Oct 20 - Accolade (PC), Antidots (SJ)
Oct 21 - Batumber (SJ)

Tangle Patterns: Zett-Heart, Accolade, Antidots, Batumber

BOO-oooooh!

Tile #11 is attributed to this year's Halloween (albeit still a few days early) using Jake Parker's Oct 22 prompt ghost...and aptly themed it: "BOO-oooooh!" (spot the ghost if you can). Inktober 2019 prompts used are:

Oct 22 - Abundies (SJ), Ghost (JP)
Oct 23 - Pixioze (SJ)
Oct 24 - Baton (SJ), Hatflox (PC), Yale (TAA)

Tangle Patterns: Abundies, Pixioze, Baton, Hatflox, Yale

Tic-Tac-Toe

Tile #12 - Wonky grid. That is what I instantly thought of when I first saw the Oct 23 prompt Des-Ti-Ney on the pattern collection list. So I made a monotile and called it: "Tic-Tac-Toe" referring to Jake Parker's Oct 30 prompt: Catch. Now, that was easy.

Oct 23 - Des-Ti-Ney (PC)
Oct 30 - Catch (JP)

Tangle Patterns: Des-Ti-Ney

Inky

Inktober 2019 tile #13. I call it "Inky" according to Jake Parker's Oct 26th prompt 'dark'. It wasn't easy to fill in all those black spaces. Microns just don't work well on watercolor distressed paper and easily get destroyed. Luckily I have a lot of old, scratchy pens which I keep for cases just like these. Prompts and days for this tile are:

Oct 25 - Tripoli (SJ)
Oct 26 - Your Call (TAA), Ratoon (SJ), dark (JP)
Oct 27 - Egyptian Wave (PC), Crescent Moon (SJ)

Tangle Patterns: Tripoli, Your Call, Ratoon, Egyptian Wave, Crescent Moon

Turkish Delight

Inktober 2019 tile #14 is running under the theme "Turkish Delight" in reference to Jake Parker's Oct 7th prompt "Enchanted. Maybe a bit far fetched but if you think of Turkish Delight as a flower... The new pattern is in one of the leaves, I just can't decided which of the two, but not Kuke. Or maybe I should have picked a 'new pattern' PC just published?

Oct 7 - Enchanted (JP)
Oct 28 - New Pattern (PC), Well Well Who (SJ)
Oct 29 - Zonked (TAA), Kuke (SJ)

Tangle Patterns: Well Well Who, Zonked, Kuke

Feral

#15 is an afterthought, October days potpourri Inktober 2019 tile running under the name "Feral" according to Jake Parker's Oct 16th prompt 'wild'. I needed to get October 31st in to round up the month and thus picked just about any day to fill the tile. Although, coming to think of it, a Florz monotile wouldn't have been such a bad idea at all. Potpourri days are:

Oct 16 - wild (JP)
Oct 22 - O-Hooks (PC)
Oct 23 - Raphael (TAA)
Oct 25 - Striping (PC)
Oct 27 - Golden (TAA)
Oct 31 - Florz (SJ)

Tangle Patterns: O-Hooks, Raphael, Striping, Golden, Florz

Collapse

I still had time to finish one more Inktober 2019 tile, my 16th, while still in the month of October. I chose the tangle Pezino (TAA Oct 5th) and the prompt 'build' from the Jake Parker list on the same day and drew a monotile I themed "Collapse".

If October doesn't transform into November soon, I might be tempted to draw yet another tile....Yes, I just might be! (written Oct 28).

Oct 5 - Pezino (TAA), Build (JP)

Tangle Patterns: Pexino

...and thus Inktober 2019 has reached its end. I admit, it has been a bit sticky going at times, but now that it is over I am already looking forward to next year's Inktober challenges. How many unofficial lists will we have then?

Animal Happy Days

...and the animals rescued are...

A huge thank you to everyone visiting my site.

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Inktober 2019; Hump Day 14; Square One; and Refresher 204

Square One September 20-26 featuring Soluna. I put it into Lollywimple.

Tangle Patterns: Soluna, Lollywimple

And here we are at Hump Day #14 - Clouds. The other day while jogging at the beach (I jog or walk almost daily at the beach) I came across the most beautiful dramatic sunset. However, I didn't have my phone with me. So the next day I made sure it was in my pocket, but of course, it wasn't the same. Still, I took this shot which became the base for my HD 14 tile. I am in no doubt you can clearly see the similarity. The tangles used in the adaptation are Pop-Cloud, Msst, and Sea Wave.

Tangle Patterns: Pop-Cloud, Msst, Sea Wave

...and here when it was Photoshop raining.🌧

Tangle Patterns: Pop-Cloud, Msst, Sea Wave and with Photoshop Rain

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...And thus started Inktober 2019. I am working with 4 very 'unofficial' Official Inktober 2019 lists:

Jake Parker's (JP),
Stephanie Jennifer's (SJ),
Tangle All Around's (TAA) in Facebook, and last but not least
Pattern Collection's (PC).

I will combine the lists and pick prompts from up to 3 days and give them a theme (giving a theme turned out to be the real challenge here). So this, my first Inktober 2019 tile, sports the following tangles under the theme....

Dreamcatcher

Oct 1 - Ring (JP) for "Dreamcatcher"; Printemps (SJ); Baubles (TAA)
Oct 2 - Line Dance (TAA); TunnelVizion (SJ)
Oct 3 - Lada (PC); Toodles (SJ)

Tangle Patterns: Printemps, Baubles, Line Dance, TunnelVizion, Lada, Toodles

Frozen 2

My Inktober's 2nd tile I aptly call "Frozen 2" (just like the cartoon movie) according to JP's prompt Oct 4 Freeze. I know, this is INK (!) tober, but...there is always a but, I just can't think of a good excuse right now. Anyway, I populated the "Frozen 2" tile with below mentioned tangles and added some snowflakes and icicles. Not proud of it, but it IS a tile!!!

Oct 4 - Freeze (JP) for "Frozen 2"; Snow Flower (PC); Zonked (SJ)
Oct 5 - Jalousie (SJ)
Oct 6 - Flukes (SJ)

Tangle Patterns: Snow Flower, Zonked, Jalousie, Flukes 

Mutualism

My Inktober's 3rd tile I call "Mutualism" loosely interpreted by JP's Oct 2 prompt "Bait". Imagine the Bud Heads are aquatic Venus Flytraps and they live in a symbiotic relationship with Paradox where Paradox is their rooting bed and Bud Head 1 lures in Tipple parasites as food for Paradox. Well, that is what I was thinking of when I remembered the symbiotic relationship of clownfish and sea anemones. I added (Sea)Ur-chen to give the scene a more credible underwater feel.

Oct 2 - Bait (JP) for "Mutualism"
Oct 4 - Paradox (PC)
Oct 5 - Bud Head 1 (PC)
Oct 6 - Ur-chen (PC)

Tangle Patterns: Paradox, Bud Head 1, Ur-chen (PC)

Swing Low...

Inktober tile #4. I didn't have to think twice about which of JP prompts I should choose for the theme: "swing"! Anytime. Swing for "Swing Low...". 'Turn me Loose and let me Swing Swing' would have been a better choice, but it was just way too long. So here we go, the prompts:

Oct 7 - I'am Watching You (PC)
Oct 8 - Praa (TAA); Bales (SJ)
Oct 9 - MySwing (TAA); Lola (SJ); Wrapping (PC); Swing (JP)

Tangle Patterns: I'am Watching You, Praa, Bales, MySwing, Lola, Wrapping

Ornamented

Inktober tile #5 I dedicate entirely to Jake Parker's Oct 10th prompt he listed as "Pattern". And "Ornamented" it is. That is the tile is ornamented. I was inspired to this pattern after I joined the Pattern Collection's Designer Group. I was told by Ina Sonnenmoser to start with lesson 1, creating a ribbon pattern. Half-heatedly I wired my brain cells to a pattern designer mood and came up with this. And yes, it can be used as a ribbon. Now all that is left is to make it a ribbon and send it in to Ina S. (Maybe she will slap my wrist again.) 😱

Oct 10 - Pattern (JP)

Tangle Patterns: My - yet - unnamed ribbon tangle

Drogon

My #6 tile for Inktober 2019 is more of a flower power tile than a nasty "Drogon", the theme I took from Jake Parker's list for day 12. The "Drogon" theme needs no explanation though. Anyone who watched Game of Thrones is familiar with Daenerys' pets.

Oct 10 - Windmill (TAA) (Hiroko Matsuo/Ina Sonnenmoser), Cubine (SJ)
Oct 11 - Victorian Flake (TAA), InaFlux (SJ), X's and O's (PC)
Oct 12 - Floo (SJ), Dragonfly (TAA), Dragon (JP) 

Tangle Patterns: Windmill, Cubine, Victorian Flake, InaFlux, X's and O's, Floo, Dragonfly, Dragon

...and then I had to digitally color it a bit.

Inktober 2019 to be continued...

(Find Inktober 2019 list and tile collection in my Google Photo Album.)



Refresher #204 from tanglepatterns.com with tangles Spoken, Asgard, Shorely, Spangle, and Zenjellies. For this tile I used a Micron Sepia 003 pen. Love it

Tangle Patterns: Spoken, Asgard, Shorely, Spangle, Zenjellies

If interested, click here for listing/prompts/tiles for all Refreshers since the first published.



Now for the real Fun...

Language Evolution

Evolution? Really?!

You can Make it an Animal Happy Day

Viktor Larkhill of the Spanish animal rescue "Let's Adopt" is on a new mission as we speak. Spain experienced tremendous rainfall in the south causing unbelievable damage. Suffering are also Animal Shelters. If you have a heart for animals please watch the video and if you can afford it...click on the youtube link where you will find a support link in the description below the video.

Animal Happy Day

When I came across this video I knew I had to put it into my post. Swimming with wild dolphins in open water was always a dream of mine (I used to be a PADI scuba diving instructor for 11 years). The closest I came was at the end of a scuba dive in the Maldives. I was waiting to be assisted out of the water when I heard people on the boat shout "Dolphins! Dolphins!". Still in my gear I ducked under and - indeed - watched a whole pod passing by the boat. I was elated and excited, punched the water to get their attention while sucking air from my regulator like mad... and then they were gone as quickly as they came. Not one - NOT ONE! -  had looked in my direction to flip a hello, let alone show a sign of noticing me. (One of my other dreams: hanging on to a whale shark's mouth to find out what I can see on the inside, however, did turn real while fun diving off Similan Islands (Thailand).)




...and a last quiz: What kind of baby animal is this? Find out here.

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