DIVA Challenge 316

UPDATE May 19, 2017
I feel better know. I made a STRIPES tile and didn't cheat.

Patterns: Henna Drum, 1/2 Wist, Nzeppel, Faux Weave, Jib, Balldox

This week's challenge: STRIPES! What comes to mind? Zebras. Well, that wasn't the idea. So I thought and thought and I just didn't know what to do. However, if you wait long enough and don't force the subject, your brain will jump into action and a solution will be found, says psychologist Susie Ng.

I cheated. I confess. Please everybody forgive me, I used the computer. Having said that, I drew the tile all by myself though, so I only cheated half a bit.

After the tile was drawn I took a picture, placed it in Photoshop, cut it into pieces... I mean STRIPES and then moved those STRIPES up and down, left and right. Tangles I used are Phicops, Starfish-Too, Icanthis (yes, the tangle I so hated when Joey chose it for her alphabet challenge letter "i" starter tangle and I then learned to love), Flux, my version of Praa, and Lapin (my own tangle) as border.

Patterns: Phicops, Starfish-Too, Icanthis, Flux, Praa. Lapin

And then I remembered I made once an A4 drawing of an image I found on the net, it was full of STRIPES. It was last year, in April. Still it counts, doesn't it? I haven't published it anywhere....yet.

Pattern: Stripes

Okay, I agree, it is a post made out of desperation, but it is a post and these are STRIPES!!! Wanna bet?

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IAST Challenge 194

At Tickled to Tangle the It's A String Thing (IAST #194) challenge this week includes a new tangle by Adele Bruno and she dedicated it to her new present day youngest granddaughter Ella. Skip over to Adele's site to have a quick look at the pattern how it is supposed to look. The tangles to accompany (Tr)Ella are Florz and Nzeppel. I love both of these tiles so I know (Tr)Ella is in good company.

I drew the blue tile first (that is why it is first). So when I had finished it, I took my todo list and made a hook next to item "IAST 194". No sooner had I made that hook the idea hit me I could draw Trella only to one side like a droopy willow branch. So quickly out came all my Zentangle gear again to squeeze in another tile and the result is now 2 hooks next to item "IAST 194".

So here my first Trella - all in blue, on blue, and surrounded by blue. Nope, I am not blue and I don't have the blues (in case you are wondering).

Patterns: Trella, Nzepple, Florz

And here my quicky featuring my droopy Trella willow branch version.

Patterns: Trella willow, Nzepple, Florz

Animal Happy Day

I think the people who wrote the title to this website and video (~30sec) got it all wrong. They depict Mr. Elephant to be Goliath and Baby Buffalo to be ... you know who. I, on the other hand, saw Mr. Elephant performing perfect foxtrot steps all backwards and I would have given him a 10 in ballroom dancing. Either way, he is a good sport.

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Alphabet Challenge Letter S

We are at letter S with Joey's alphabet challenge "Finish my Tile". It goes fast now and Z seems just a blink and a wink away.

The tangle she chose for us is Sand Swirl. I used Sand Swirl once before, but wasn't all that fond of it. Now I realize it is actually quite a good one to use as a filler. As always I finished two tiles, capital S and lowercase s.

Capital S here with the additional tangles Slingo, Starfish Flower, and Sekips. What on earth is "Sekips" I asked and googled it. Result: images of guys...male guys. Well, I am no wiser.

Patterns: Sand Swirl, Slingo, Starfish Flower, Sekips

My lowercase s tile suffered a bit. I had to mess it up by putting my finger into still wet gel. I won't do that again.

Patterns: Sand Swirl, Smokey-V2, Spangle

Animal Happy Day

Viva Hong Kong biker guy!!!

Link to next Alphabet Letter Challenge: T
Link to previous Alphabet Letter Challenge: R

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DIVA Challenge 315

I am finally catching up with all the challenges for this week. So here comes the DIVA challenge #315 and it is "Tangle Study = Molygon". Molygon is nothing else but a croissant...multiplied, and each new croissant about half the size of its predecessor. OK, here my study of Molygon.

My first is drawn on printed business card paper. Well, have got to use it for something. What do they say? If you have it, flaunt it.

Patterns: Molygon

Here I dissected some of the croissants cum Molygon...wanted to know what's inside. Also I drew some modernized Molygon in the bottom right hand corner.

Patterns: Dissected Molygon

But this is my real study of Molygon - even Molygon is in Molygon. So with this tile I say goodbye to Molygon. It was a pleasure studying you and may you forever flourish in the tangle world of Zentangle.

Patterns: Molygon forever.

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IAST Challenge 193

Internet Outage

Ah, finally I can access my blogger backend. Huge global Internet level(3) outage today, Sat May 6, affecting YouTube, Gmail (hence no emailing for me), and Google. However, because I wasn't able to access several other sites as well, Blogger (Blogspot) included, I called my Internet Service Provider to look into it. Finally a technician from Bangkok called and he accessed my router via their Team Viewer program I had to download and run. It was weird to watch the cursor on the monitor moving about as if guided by a ghost, opening tabs and changing configurations. These remote desktop sharing apps exist already for years, but never had a popular purpose, but having my computer problem fixed this way has never been so interesting to watch. Thanks, 3BB.

IAST

Welcome back, Adele. I am glad you had a great holiday in Italy. I am one of Lily's many avid followers and huge admirers of her little Zentangle masterpieces and, as everybody else, was deeply moved when her last newsletter revealed why we hadn't heard from her as of late. So, your idea to dedicate IAST challenge #193 to Lily Moon and to use her mark as a string and her patterns to fill the string is fantastic.

I drew two tiles. In the first one I embedded all four of her patterns you listed: Drogon, Reel, Lily's Valentine, and Andante...modified a bit maybe.

Patterns: Drogon, Lily's Valentine, Reel, Andante

...and my second Lily Moon tile with just two of her tangles: Andante and Reel. Reel is filled with Rundl.

Patterns: Andante, Reel, Rundl, Printemps, Tipple

Animal Happy Day

If first you don't succeed...

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Alphabet Challenge Letter R

Arrrrrg....almost another week has gone by and I am still doing the finishing touches for Joey's alphabet challenge #163: the letter R and the tangle Rysa. Will I ever be among the first again to upload my contribution? Hell, no. Not the way I am going right now. Have lots to do in the garden and it is bloody hot (hottest season of the year in Thailand!!!!). Yesterday I rescued a 3m (10ft) tall scrub from its mistletoe parasite growing at the top, all the while praying that I am not falling off the ladder. I read somewhere that from all falls 43% are falls from ladders and a statistic shows that most of those falls are from 6-10ft heights. Great! If only my chances in winning the lottery...

Anyway, I finished the deed without falling and was able to draw my R and r tiles. First the capital R with but one Rysa segment and a Roids in Roel combination.

Patterns: Rysa, with Roids in Roel

My lowercase r is backed by more Rysa segments and the only other tangle I added was Ringz.

Patterns: Rysa and Ringz

This is what I cut off from the scrub...

Parasite (big leaves); small leaves real.

...and now I have a much happier garden resident.

My happy tree

Stats showing % of fall accidents/heights

Animal Happy Day

Hurray!!!!!! Los Angeles will no longer allow wild or exotic animals to be used for entertainment purposes — this means that animals will no longer be exploited in circuses, exotic animal shows or even rentals for parties. More...

Homeless Pit Bull gives birth in a den during a massive rainstorm. So many puppies!!! Well, this video has almost 1.9 million views, you might well be among them. If not, click the video. This is so cute.

Human Happy Day

Last week I showed you the amazing photo illusions to promote adoptions for homeless animals in India. This week the art is body painting of animals. No, no animals have been hurt creating the art. If you are as much flabbergasted as I was when I saw this video first and you want to see more, please visit Johannes Stotter's website.



If you like what you see....there is more from this artist here.



Link to next Alphabet Letter Challenge: S
Link to previous Alphabet Letter Challenge: Q

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DIVA Challenge 314

Sometimes you take to a tangle instantly, sometimes it takes a few tries and sometimes you never take to a tangle. Well, this week's DIVA challenge (#314) introduced me to a new tangle called Scallamp, an absolutely gorgeous organic pattern I fell in love with on first sight. Alas, that love turned out to be one-sided. Somehow Scallamp will not flow from my pen exactly the way it wants to be drawn and our relationship definitely still needs some work.

After a few tries of drawing some big and some even bigger Scallamps, keeping it on the middle string as it should be and as standalone, I finally put my foot down. There you are, Scallamp, and don't you go complaining about the way I drew you to the tangle world or I will draw you in a third tile. (Believe me, you don't want that to happen.)

Thus here, my official DIVA #314 Scallamp tile. I added some translucent leaves that are actually no tangle...yet...but could be. Yeah, cud be.

Pattern: Scallamp with some translucent leaves 

Here a huge version of Scallamp and my white gel pen is drying out.

Pattern: Scallamp

Animal Happy Day

This is a charmingly crazy kitten video. It reminded me of a factory worker standing at a fast driving conveyor belt trying to sort apples by size. So, if you love cats, or if you just don't hate cats, this will put a smile on your face. Wanna bet?

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Inspired by... April 2017

This page shows the tangle patterns I was inspired by...in April.

Nouvart
Well, there was the beautiful Nouvart tangle by Ria Mattheussen that inspired me greatly this April. It was a part of the IAST #190 challenge and I honored her simple, but amazing tangle with her extra 'Inspired By...' page. I saw a natural crystal in it and gave it several tries to bring that out on paper. I am not there - quite yet, but who knows, one day. (Still an item on my tangle practicing list)

The tangle Pebble Flowers
I like most organic tangles and Pebble Flowers by Helen Williams was one I 'had' to learn in one of my personal 'Refreshers' challenges (#150). And I love it.

Pattern: Pebble Flowers

Heart-A-Flutter, Banana-Braid
I started to visit Dawn's website page 'Pattern Focus' to check which pattern is the 'flavor of the day'. April 17th, 2017: it was Banana-Braid by Ina Sonnenmoser. Me being an organic pattern lover fell, you guessed it, in love with it. For a strange reason I thought that Hearts-A-Flutter (by Lesley Goldberg, CZT), a pattern I learnt for the IAST #192 challenge would compliment Banana-Braid...and it did.

Pattern: Hearts-A-Flutter by itself

Patterns: Hearts-A-Flutter, Banana-Braid

Drupe/Dyon Tangelation
Influenced by Melinda Barlow's youtube video 'Tangle lesson #172 Dyon, Drupe, FOF, 1,2,3'. (Drupe is by Zentangle, but I do not know Dyon. Sorry.) Every week she publishes 3 tangle tutorial videos and I am one of her avid admirers and true followers. With dyon and drupe she opened my eyes to the endless possibilities you can play around with them. I would get even  more creative, but as you may have noticed, this website is called Fleeting Time under the domain name Never No Time with good reason. Yeap!

Patterns: Drupe, Dyon 

Faux Weave - a continuation
This is another fantastic...excellent...impressive...(this time*) easy...one-stroke tangle patterns by Helen Williams: Faux Weave. I already placed several Faux Weave adaptions on a separate "Inspired by..." page as I just made too many. So why another? Easy.

a) Faux Weave got stuck in my head. Here I made a 4-petal flower all in one stroke. I needed to practice a bit to get the corners, but once you start, the rest is history.

b) HeidiSue made something I thought I need to try although I was sure I would work all day on it, Stipple shading Tipple, but...no. I was actually happily dotting away until the last dot was placed.

* Last time her one-stroke tangle pattern drove me crazy. String Rose. Nope, not easy. Still can't get it done to look beautiful and that leaves my knickers in a twist. I so much want it to be beautiful, huhu!

Patterns: Faux Weave Four with HeidiSue's Stippled Tipple

Faux Weave Four - once you get the corners...

Tri-Bee, C-Stem and Organic
Tri-Bee (by Beate Winkler, CZT) with big ears. A training exercise for refresher tile #151. Same with C-Stem (by Agneta Landegren), I actually like the way right version best. ...and Organic (by Sayantika Ray) as well, yeah, well, Organic. You know I like organic tangles and this one is, although I didn't pull it apart to alter it, one I like. So I threw it in to the mix.

Pattern: Tri-Bee

Pattern: C-Stem

Pattern: Organic

Kensington
Kensington (by Anoeska Waardenburg) is a pattern I came across on Dawn's youtube video channel recently. Then I was to do a DIVA challenge tile under the theme "Coffee, Tea, or Me" and the string was any liquid stain and took the opportunity to work my new love affair into the spill. Below's tile is garnished with Caviar, Printemps, which turned out better than usual, and the reliable Tipple.

Patterns: Kensington, Caviar, Printemps, Tipple

Feeling Knotty
Feeling Knotty (by MootePoints) is actually Simply Knotty, but Knotty it is, and it is actually not a tangle, but a string. I like these Celtic knots, they are real brain twisters. When I follow those tons of instructions on the net, nothing makes sense until at the very end it all falls together. Would I ever try a Celtic knot out of my head? ... No. Not yet anyway. But they are great fun to follow.

Simply Knotty I found also  on youtube, the MootePoints channel. She has a lot more knots to knot.

For a change I filled this Simply Knotty string with tons of patterns, so uncharacteristic of me.

Patterns: Amaze, Hollibaugh, Tipple, Henna Drum, Flux,
Printemps, Fauz Weave, Bracelet, Paradox, Crescent Moon,
Ripped Screen, Mooka, Flukes, Betweed, Field of  Flowers (FOF)
(Huff, Puff!!!)

A word:
I try to accredit the creators of all the tangles and/or the source where I found them. If, however, you notice that I neglected a credit, a credit is misplaced, a link to a source is not working, or any other misplaced information, please let me know either through the contact form on the right/bottom, or leave a comment and I will remedy the carelessness. Much appreciated.

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April 2017 Refreshers

I was busy this month with different challenges and Inspirited by... tiles, the refresher tiles suffered a bit. However, I am still ahead of the game, that means, I am still drawing more refresher tiles than are published on Linda Farmer's website. I am slowly, but surely, catching up. What do they say? It's a long way to Tipperary...

Here the first of the month - Refresher #20

Patterns: Verdigogh, Fish Net, Trimonds, Twistee, Loops

Refresher #150 - I am trying now to draw the latest refreshers as soon as they are published.

Patterns: Pebble Flowers, L Zen 7s, Flapper, Crescent Moon, Helix

Refresher #24

Patterns: Oof, Archer, Sanibelle, Arc Flower, Sugarcane

Refresher #26 - Two because....

Patterns: Cubine, Looby Loo, Riverstones, Versa, Droplets

I tried Ria Matheussen's candle/watercolor base tile, but I made the mistake of being too liberal with the candle. Drawing became rather difficult on the oily candle slicks and I had to abandon the tile. Abandoning this particular tile does not mean abandoning the candle trick.

My candle tile disaster

Refresher #151 - Hereto I used one of my coffee (speak watercolor) stain tiles I made for the IAST 312 challenge.

Patterns: Nzeppel, Tri-Bee, C-Stem, Pineple, Organic

Stained tile for Refresher 151
Stained with watercolor and glitter nail polish

Refresher #152 - I am not very fond of patterns like bala, but when I played around with it a bit, I fell in love with it. Why does this green tile has a yellow border? Because I messed up the actual border line, tried to recover it which made it worse... So the scissors came in handy!

Patterns: Pendrills, Fleavy, Gotcha, Wedge, Bala

I am not too happy with the results of this month. II will take a deep breath and attack next week's refreshers with a different approach. Hmm... not sure what approach yet, but it is still April.

Click on the image below to visit all the Refreshers I have done thus far in my flickr album.

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DIVA Challenge 313

The theme of this week's DIVA Challenge #313 is last week's Earth Day, or, as it is also known among insiders, Amanda Day. If you want to know why Amanda Day and become an insider, click on the DIVA link above. And you may also want to read at the bottom of this page to check out what I found out.

Anyway, a few week's ago I ordered new sketchbooks for the collection of all my Zentangle tiles to store in and, what a coincident, they arrived this week. This, by itself, is nothing earth shattering if it wasn't for its packaging...each book came with a packaging that had a compass rose printed on it. Ha! Instant decision was made. This is going to be my Amanda Day tile and so be it.

I used only two tangles, Hamail and Flux. Need it be more?

Patterns: Hamail, Flux

Coming back to AMANDA DAY. As mentioned above, I did some research on the net (love researchirng) and this is what I found: Amanda is a Latin female gerundive name meaning

• "having to be loved," 
• "deserving to be loved," 
• "worthy of love,"
• "loved very much by everyone.

Well, little Chewie, I don't know how you knew that, but you were dead-on!!!
Source

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