Here we go, another Joey's challenge (#213) surprise! Looks like I am still 'Building Bridges', but this time I left HaKrall at home and built my bridges with Frames alone.
Tangle Patterns: Frames or FramesTOO
IAST #240 is very much geometrical with Flukes and Cubine, adding the half geometrical tangle Elirob.
Tangle Patterns: Elirob, Flukes, Cubine
Refresher #177 from the website Tanglepatterns brought 3 new tangles for me to 'experience' with. Everything went fine with Lollywimple and Ponio, but Winflo...
Sorry, Nadine Roller. It looks gorgeous when you draw it, but I have visibly 2 left hands when drawing Winflo. Even my several different attempts to draw it this way or that didn't bring the result I was hoping for. So here are Winflo Bouquet, Winflo Liana, Winflo stacked, and Winflo vine... and I still have 2 left hands.
The following are some of my tiny tiles of this week.
Tangle Pattern: Clob with Andromeda
Tangle Pattern: Coil with Fluxecho
Tangle Pattern: Tupuk, Lollywimple, Ponio and...
Winflo! again
Tangle Pattern: Carre's and Bridge
One day I have to do a big tile with just Bridge
Tangle Patterns: Elirob
Animal Happy Day
Ahhhh! I love Pitties!
And here something really weird. Animals have eyes, but what kind of eyes? Imagine they have HUMAN eyes... and now click here to see how that would look like.
Remember this tile? That is HaKrall & Friends. It was months back, September 8, 2017 to be precise, when Lynn Mead from A Tangler’s Mind published her post HaKrall and Friends – Building Bridges. I was so impressed, I bookmarked the post’s link, set a reminder to pop up every week on Sunday, but time flew by with me doing nothing but snoozing every wake-up call back to sleep for another week. So I did something that didn’t come easy: In order to gain time for my Zentangle projects I disabled my comment section for my blog posts in order to not feel guilty when I step back a while from me giving comments to others. Please forgive, guys, but I have a “TIWTD List” (This-I-Want-To-Do List) and I am getting ahead now albeit in mini steps. So here I am with one of my list items, Lynn’s fantastic HaKrall and Friends B’twined and Stoic (or Twile).
I started by collecting grid patterns. It became quickly obvious that Lynn had chosen all the best tangles for her masterpiece. I finally decided to go for a flowery theme….
Tangle Patterns: Flair, CC, Petal Pusher
Before I had finished the tile, it became blatantly clear, I didn't get what 'Building Bridges' was all about. Indeed, the time I spent looking for patterns I had forgotten about the instructions. So I dropped everything and went back to Lynn's page. I drew what she drew (a la learn by doing) and then I outlined her "Bridges".
Tangle Patterns: Hakrall, B’twined and Stoic as Lynn drew it
I had an AHA moment and voila, tile #2 was born.
Tangle Patterns: Up and Across, Wisket, Y-Ful Power
Then Joey's email snowed in with her 212 challenge featuring Relly Telly One. WOW! Under my hand was a tile with Huggins in the middle and Huggins looked...exactly like Relly Telly One. Two flies with one stroke!
Tangle Patterns: Huggins-cum-Relly Telly One, Fragment K4-cum-Palrevo, Xav-cum-Xav
The following two tiles are "Building Bridges" failures I am proud of. Lynn, it was so much fun to search for tangles I could combine in any way, anyhow, and come up with great little tiles. Sometimes I had Bridges, then Tunnels, and Highways or Crossroads, but with each tile finished I wanted to do another one. Thanks so much for this interesting challenge! If anybody wants to check out Lynn's Hakrall & Friends - Building Bridges and read up on the instructions, click here.
Tangle Patterns: Bridge, Carre's, Akira
Tangle Patterns: Flair, CC, Petal Pusher
Same as 1st tile, but in color
Since I am still in the HaKrall Friends layout mode and mood I kept on through this DIVA #360 challenge sporting Shattuck and Tripoli, but minus bridges. However, I had to add one more tile... more along my style, too.
Tangle Patterns: Shattuck, Tripoli
Tangle Patterns: Shattuck, Tripoli
IAST #239 this week had us draw Tupuk, Flec, and Fassett. I have a good standing with the first two, but the latter always gives me a headache. So I thought what if I will give Fassett a spin? I like insects, so I started this challenge by drawing a Fassett abstract dragon-fly....
Fassetted Abstract Dragon-fly
Nope! Not there yet. But I had added the flower.... Hmm, maybe! Just maybe! I started a new tile and drew 3 different Fassett-spinned flowers...
Fassetted Flowers
Weeeelll... No, not really either. Fassett and I are still not friendly. But now it is time to draw my tile. I tried to somehow connect the 3 tangles, but it wasn't to be. However, I like the lifted black middle part in Fassett. So there is still hope. And I hope, I will remember that lifted black triangle when the next Fassett challenge hops along.
Tangle Patterns: Tupuk, Flec, Fassett
And last but not least the flavor of the week tangles: Ilac by Ria Matheussen and AmyBaby by YuRu Chen.
Tangle Patterns: Ilac, AmyBaby
Animal Happy Day
And here my video of the week. You have to look fast to see the trick!
DIVA Challenge #359 of this week is based on our own Fingers String. I had a quick look at the DIVA video and had serious doubts I will partake, but (!) I placed 3 of my fingers on a piece of paper just for fun and traced them anyway. Wow! The light switched on! My round fingertips looked like the new tangle I just learned for Refresher #176 (see below), Mariposa. The rest is history.
Tangle Patterns: Mariposa, AmyBaby, Ilac, Cat-Kin and one Zinger
Over at Joey’s we continue with the 13-month F&C (Front and Center) weekly challenge #211. The dominant tangle being Breach. This week I had not forgotten to place the tangle smack in the middle.
Refresher #176 was published and I had an instant liking to the tangles it sported. Apart from Pepper, the other 4 were new to me which meant: tiny exercise tiles. Kirkland surprised me. It’s a grid tangle with too much stuff going on…and I love it. Mariposa: hey, organic! Say no more. Arches: I love Arches better the way I drew it on the tiny tile together with Molygon and Ria Matheussen’s new tangle ILAC! I had to draw Ilac, it’s simple but so beautiful! And last but not least my twist on 1/2 Orbs with Beebug.
Tiny exercise tiles for Refresher #176
Top: Mariposa; 2nd: Arches with Ilac and Molygon; 3rd: Kirkland; bottom: 1/2 Orbs with Beebugs
Adele Bruno over at Tickled to Tangle had an interesting new tangle she calls Mack. I started with my tiny exercise tiles when I noticed I drew all different Macks and not one real Mack. I have to make a reminder to one day draw the Real Mack because I actually like it. So here my IAST #328 tile.
Tangle Pattern: Mack variations
Oops! I just noticed I placed the wrong tile for Joey's challenge. This is the correct one. Okay, okay! So I added on, but who wants to admit one forgets the same thing twice in such a short time? Not you, do you? Anyway, you hardly notice. Admit it!
In this video Viktor explains the different Animal Rescue youTube channels, but what made me copy the link and publish this video is what he says about vets in India and what he plans to do in 2019. If he does follow through, my hat will fly so high it will disappear in space.
With Joey's Weekly Challenge #210 we start a new challenge theme called 'Front and Center' or F&C. By the time I was ready to draw my tile, however, all I remembered was that we use the tangle Mak Rah Mee. Oh well, now my 'Front and Center' has become 'Front and Corner' or F&C. Oh, I am OK again!
The first tile ended up too crowded, too busy, too many different strokes into too many different directions, so I did a second, more organized, tile with just Mak Rah Mee, Camelia and one single Cruffle.
Tangle Patterns: Mak Rah Mee, Camelia, Zinger, Printemps and a torn tile
DIVA Challenge #358 was a bit tricky. The new tangle PickPocket kept me on my toes no matter how and how often I drew it. There just isn't an easy, comfy way to draw it but requires full attention.
Tangle Patterns: PickPocket, Foreman
Tangle Pattern PickPockdet being tested
Animal Happy Day
This is the story of Jason and Smokey, a prisoner and a dog on death row. No worries, it runs under "Animal Happy Day", so you can watch it. The video quality is fine, but I experienced blurriness towards the end. If that happens with you, get a tissue, your eyes are probably watering.
Every month the tangle database website tanglepatterns.com publishes two pattern refresher challenges. I have done all of them and placed them in my flickr album "Refreshers". It took me a while to catch up with all of them, but by the middle of December 2017 the last published at that time, #169, had broken the gab. Now I enjoy the two that come out every month.
Please forgive that I sent you two email notifications one after the other. In the future Refresher tiles will be included in my weekly publications. PS: I have disabled comments on this page. Just enjoy - no obligations!
Refresher #170 - Drawings, Yam-It, Interlude, W3, A-Dalpha
On this tile I used blue/turquoise gelly roll pens and blended them with nail polish remover. Worked wonderfully.
Refresher #172 - Bunzo, Measles, Andante, Ziggle, Whalestail
This tile it cut from a grey business card paper sheet. I know it is difficult to draw on it, but had forgotten all about it and bought new sheets --- again (duh!!). The 2 corners and 3 middle parts of the over sized whalestail tangle are decorated with glitter nail polish. It works well on black and gives the tile a spark if the 'spark' is otherwise not present.
Refresher #173 - BB, Fayda, El Prado, Breezy, Abeko
This is a weird tile. I drew it on the inside of an Arabus 3in1 coffee packaging. When I pulled the cardboard apart, some of the smooth paper lining came off, exposing the rough cardboard. I was tempted to pull the perforated opening strip smack bang through the tile....well, with the next Arabus cardboard packaging tile maybe.
Patterns: BB, Fayda, El Prado, Breezy, Abeko
The packaging from the front, now the tile from the back. And there is the perforation.
March 2018
Refresher #174 - Ahh!, Drogon, 3V, Starcrossed, Xs and Orbs
OK, let's be honest, Drogon didn't quite come out as I intended. Sometimes I overdo it, but it is there now and it will stay, too. However, I did fall in love with 3V at the bottom. In a recent post I drew it true and straight and it is as lovely as wild and out of control.
Patterns: Ahh!, Dragon, 3V, Starcrossed, Xs and Orbs
Refresher #175 - Onamato, Trangle, LO’s, Squiggles, Eleganza
What can I say? I loooove the new nail glitter, though! And I am getting better at applying it, too.
As some of you may know, I have an old dog, too (15 1/2 yrs, blind, deaf and communication is done mainly by touch), and I love him to bits. However, I confess, I have no bucket list for him. Staying at home and sleeping all day long is all he craves for entertainment and to tickle the palate he gets his beloved peanut butter (every day!) and doggy treats - lots of it and then some! And when the steps are too high to climb, two helping arms carry him safely up. No, he is not fat, never was (the lucky boy), and if he takes those steps across the rainbow a day earlier than destiny had planned for him due to the 'stringent' diet regimen, I know he will not complain.
