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Friday, June 02, 2017

DIVA Challenge 318


This week's DIVA Challenge (#318) made us draw a Diptych tile. Honestly, I had to google it as I had never heard of "Diptych" and this  is what I found:
1. a painting, especially an altarpiece, on two hinged wooden panels that may be closed like a book.
2. an ancient writing tablet consisting of two hinged leaves with waxed inner sides.
Aha! Exactly what we were asked to draw. Wait. Altarpiece? Wasn't there somebody who drew a papel hat? A Mitre? Yes, at Tinkered Art Studio. Perfect.

I hate it when I have to pick my own tangles. So I just used the one we recently used in the IAST 197 challenge - Tint. Yeap, you guessed it, 'lots of ideas' or 'creativity' is not my middle name.

So here my 'Diptych' tangle tile in a setting...


Patterns: Tint, Henna Drum, Tipple



...and here the Diptych flat and open and big enough to detect all the 'mirror' mistakes.


Patterns: Tint, Henna Drum, Tipple




Thai Elephant Happy Day

There is a special place in my heart for elephants. In my IAST challenge 197 page I went a bit further and explained the why and introduced the vet Soraida Salwala. A remarkable vet and my hero, who left an imprint in my head since 1993 when she and Honey, a baby elephant, were in the news.

In this video, however, the ending is a good one when an orphaned baby elephant arrives at a Thai elephant sanctuary in the north after it had been cared for by Soraida's founded first elephant hospital in the whole world - Friends of the Asia Elephant.

Who is Soraida and Honey's story - part 1
Who is Soraida and Honey's story - part 2










14 comments:

  1. Very pretty diptych!

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  2. So creative to do a version mirrored in color. Unique and beautiful!

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    1. Thank you very much for your comment using the word 'creative', Jean. Maybe 'a lucky strike' is more likely? 😉

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  3. beautiful! I like the color variation. really makes it dramatic <3

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  4. I love the tangles you ended up with, and I love how you did the mirroring. Laura describing the mirroring with the word "loosely" opened a world of freedom and fun for me, and I think yours is prettier for not being exact.

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    1. Thank you very much for your kind comment, Pat, and for reminding me about the 'loosely' description by Laura. I had forgotten all about that. Meanwhile I also think that 'handmade' can be recognized as such and 'handmade' is never 'exactly exact'.😉

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    1. Thank you very much for your kind comment, Sidney.

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  6. I love your wonderful Diptych. The color in it is beautifully done. I'm glad you included a 'flat' picture as well so we can see all of the beautiful linework.

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    1. Thank you, Lezli, for your very kind comment and welcome to my page.

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  7. Susie, love the way you used colour on one side and black and white on the other outstanding!

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    1. Thank you, Trudi. I think I just got bored to repeat the other side exactly the same way. So I used the color and made a few 'deliberate' mistakes so you are not the only one. What are Zentangle friends for.

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