DIVA 364, Joey 217, IAST 244 and "Stonewalled"

"Stonewalled" - my favorite this week. Drawn on a 14 cm square paper and inspired by the leaves of a palm tree, a stonewall painting and actual occurrences.

Tangle Patterns: 'Nzeppel, Zlinky, Meer, Seaweed, Zoon

Joey's Challenge #217. From Phicops to Cadent to Finery.

Tangle Patterns: Cadent, Phicops, Finery, Petal Puddle

In last week's Joey challenge #216 we used tangle 'Friendship'. While my 'official' and 'on time' tile depicted the mood at the time and caused 'Friendship divided', this week's Friendship is very 'reunited' again.

Tangle Patterns: Friendship

DIVA #364 - "Remake of a classic" - Rundle. I made my old tile April 24, 2016, exactly 2 yrs, 1 mth, 2 days ago, or 4 mths, 4 days after I started with Zentangle Dec 20, 2015.

Tangle Patterns: Rundl, Molygon, Raindotty

Tangle Patterns: Rundl

♻️ Tangle Refresher #179 - on envelop paper. Tangles listed: Indy-Rella, Jelly Legs, Edgar, Tie, Q-Belle

Tangle Patterns: Indy-Rella, Jelly Legs, Edgar, Tie, Q-Belle

This week's IAST Challenge #244 asks for Auraknot in a star string. I made mine in the style of my last week's "The Second Best Paradox Ever Seen".

Tangle Patterns: Auraknot a la "The Second Best Paradox Ever Seen"
and Membranart

Last but not least, my little TT I made in prep for this week's Refresher tile above.

Tangle Patterns: Jelly Legs and Tie

Animal Happy Day

Reading a book has become a complete new undertaking or a test for who gives up first.




And a splendid weekend to all!

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DIVA 363, Joey 216, more...and the Ugly

Fun Tile with focus on Flip Leaves as per Helen Williams' Flips, Folds, Ribbon and String book. Now drawing petal or leaf flips is so much easier.

This kind of springtime tile has been drawn many times before by lots of tanglers. Now I have one, too.

Tangle Patterns: lip Leaves, Full Henna Drum, Undling

The theme for DIVA Challenge #363 is AURAS, something I do not use often in my tiles. I chose Toodles and Auras only on one side.

Tangle Patterns: Toodles with AURAS

'Friendship' divided (Joey's 216) or a rather off-centered IAST #243 zenbutton?

Tangle Patterns: Friendship, Zefirki, Betweed, Boucle, Ilac

"The Best Paradox Ever Seen" was the title for a Paradox tangle tutorial video I saw by Sam on youTube. I couldn't resist, but decided to change it slightly and make it my version. Hence this is "The Second Best Paradox Ever Seen".

Tangle Pattern: "The Second Best Paradox Ever" with Paradox...

...and here in Duo color

♻️ IAST #243 buttons up to go Zen. I made one on toilet roll paper. However, when it came to the shine my white charcoal pen nor the white color pencil worked on the colored pencils I used for the drawing. So I had to ask the help of Photoshop.

With Photoshop assistance...

Tangle Patterns:
Fragments W006, X004, Z004, B015 and tangle Heartland

...and here without the shine. It's a Zendala!

Some TTs.

Tangle Patterns: Somnee, Heartswell, 'Nmeshed

And finally!.....The Ugly! I finished the tile I had started for last week's Joey challenge, #215. I didn't like it unfinished then and don't like it finished now! Hence "The Ugly"!

Tangle Patterns: The Super Ugly with Focus on Whirlee

Animal Happy Day

A rescue video that kept me on the edge of my seat!!!!

Have a happy, sunny weekend.

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DIVA 362, IAST 242, Joey's 215, Ela's 1150 and Refresher 178

Joey's "Front and Center" challenge #215 features the tangle Whirlee.

Tangle Patterns: Whirlee, Pomcoco, Jawz

♻️ My second tile for Ela's Daily Challenge, #1150, with Wibble, Andromeda, and Trelina on recycle paper.

Tangle Patterns: Wibble, Andromeda, Trelina

DIVA's Challenge #362 with tangle Somnee.

Tangle Pattern: Somnee

Tangle Pattern: Somnee, Hepmee, Petal Puddle

The first of the two tanglepatterns.com refreshers for the month of May, Refresher #178 with tangles Echoism, Autumnal, Heartswell, Shark Kisses, and Chianti.

Tangle Patterns: Echoism, Autumnal, Heartswell,
Shark Kisses, and Chianti

IAST Challenge #242 totally black and white.

Tangle Patterns: 4Mom, Pots-N-Pans, Pixioze

♻️ Fun Tile on manila envelope with focus on Midge (the BIG thing through the middle), yet another new tangle by ArtzyFartzy. I love her bold style.

Tangle Patterns: Midge, Roza, Pokeleaf, Circe

Mini tile for Refresher #178 tangles Shark Kisses and Chianti - wished it was wine though.

Tangle Patterns: Shark Kisses and Chianti

Animal Happy Day

Afraid to adopt a blind dog? Mine is blind due to old age. Yes, he does bump into things and knocks them over occasionally. And yes, he stumbles over a rock while walking in slow motion on a road or misses a little pothole. But he never complains, whines, gets stressed out, or even feels pity for himself. He needs a bit more guidance, a helping lift occasionally, and human touch for reassurance, but other than that he is just like he was 15 years ago: my darling Shadow now with gray fur.

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DIVA 361, Joey's 214, Helen's H and few other Loose Ends

DIVA Challenge #361 this week honors Earth Day and wants us to use a tile from recycled paper. I have been using recycled paper a few times before and I intend to keep using it occasionally. I made two tiles because one is actually not really 'drawn directly on recycled paper', but rather 'glued onto recycled paper', the cover of a Thai Mosquito coil box, which I have water-colored whitened to dampen the strong print. The other tile is drawn directly on... yes, have you ever given a toilet roll credit? I did!

Tangle Pattern: 'Nmeshed on a Toilet Paper Roll

Tangle Pattern: Leafpod on the cover of a Mosquito Coil box

Helen's A-Z journal - H for Hepmee. WOW! Well, if you haven't yet seen Helen Williams' fantastic version of the rather plain tangle Hepmee, by all means, click here and see for yourself. I promise, you will looooove Hepmee. She turned this tangle into a stand-out stand-alone beauty! Give me Hepmee any day.

I have been following Helen's journey through the alphabet ever since letter A and haven't missed a beat. My first reaction to seeing Hepmee was: big eyes, open mouth, chin down to the floor, and electrical wires raging havoc in my brain (if you know Hepmee that would have been your reaction, too!). What a clever double effect! I must say, very impressive! Then, once the initial surprise ebbed a bit it was my turn.

I started by drawing an uneven number of rays off the center circle, then adopted Helen's curved Hepmee lines, but instead of linking each ray, I connected every other ray and kept going until I reached the tip of the rays or had enough layers.

So this is my result.

Tangle Pattern: Hepmee

With #1140 I did my very first tile for Ela's daily challenges. The inspiration came from Margarete Gilge's tile she drew for Ela. Her Tupi at the bottom, despite the leafy look, reminded me of water spills. That explains my Tupi to be in blue.

Tangle Patterns: Tupi, Bladz, Jul and a bit of added Tipple

I wasn't really satisfied with my Helen's Hepmee version. So I did some more... and now it looks like silly Jesters.

Tangle Pattern: Hepmee

Then on Artzyfartzy's youTube channel I found these 2 new tangles: Leafpod and Rosepod. Rosepod is probably not all that new or unique, but I do like her Leafpod.

Mini tile with tangle Patterns: Leafpod and Rosepod

My Helen's Hepmee lacked the flowery aspect. So another go at it was in order.

Tangle Pattern: Hepmee

For this week Joey's challenge #214 has the tangle Spoken in the "Front and Center" theme we are following presently. Undoubtedly, my Spoken is in the Center...

Tangle Pattern: Spoken

...but I knew I had to do better with the 'F'-part of 'Front and Center'.

Tangle Pattern: Spoken

But this was my first tile - so totally un-me!

Tangle Patterns:

Ah! Finally I got my leaves for Helen's H for Hepmee and it was all just a shading matter. I confess, my Hepmee version is a version of Helen's Hepmee's version of Hepmee and thus very alien to the real Hepmee. But it was fun to draw.

Tangle Pattern: Hepmee

My last tile is a tangle I learned while drawing Ela's #1140 challenge: Jul. Although Jul has nothing to do with Tripoli, its triangle shape suits the Tripoli style perfectly.

Monotangle Pattern: Jul a la Tripoli style

Animal Very Happy Day

If you followed my post you noticed that I often place animal rescue videos published on youTube by Viktor Larkhill from Spain. He is the one who takes on animal abuse cases where others would throw the towel. Viktor never gives up on animals. What you may not know is that Spain has very loose-to-no animal laws. Viktor, now, has taken on the task to change that. What made me place this video is not so much the fact of the announcement, although that alone would be worth it, but how people reacted to it.

"That's it Folks!" Thanks for visiting and have a splendid week.

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