New Tangle As.I.Am, DIVA 378, Facebook stuff, Refresher

♻️ The theme of last week's Anything Goes Creative Prompt! is 'Livin' on the Edge' or tangle the edge of the tile. I thought fine, another easy one I better tangle on the smallest tile.. Then: well, maybe on a middle size tile...

I ended up drawing the tangle Garl on a normal tile and one of my favorite recycle choices: Toilet rolls.

Tangle Pattern: Garl on toilet roll cardboard

Square One has Toodles on the menu for the week Dec 7-13. I love Toodles and I love Toodles. My first tile is Toodles with Clamz on a Sindoo background.My first tile drawn in the tangle-over-a-tangle style and I love it. I already made a list of tangles for backgrounds...

Tangle Patterns: Toodles, Clamz, Sindoo

Some more Square One Toodles with Square One Barberpole from last week (which I missed) and background tangle Zanzee on toilet roll cardboard. This blue on brown paper may not be the greatest idea since sliced bread, but it was still fun to do.

Tangle Patterns: Toodles, Barberpole, Zanzee

Inspired by... the tangled background - Aura-Leah with Tipple - technique: Aura-Leah, Pokeroot, Toodles, Dragonair, Ahh.

Tangle Patterns: Aura-Leah, Pokeroot, Toodles, Dragonair, Ahh

Facebook's weekly Anything Goes as of Dec 12th with the Creative Prompt: "Spotlight on Pea-nuckle". Still no fan of Pea-nuckle (we had it several DIVA challenges ago, more precisely, July 2017 with DIVA #325) This time I wanted to do something else, so I made a Pea-Nuckle Zendala and a Pea-Nuckle flower. The flower tile is on a Dublin background and has Pea-Nuckle as a border as well.

Pea-Nuckle Zendala.

Tangle Pattern: Pea-Nuckle and slight variations of Pea-Nuckle

Pea-Nuckle in a circle as a flower and as a border with Henna Drum, Fescu, Flux and Dublin as background tangle. As for the color...didn't you know? I am totally and completely color blind and cannot be held responsible. But maybe having the same color for the background tangle and the main act might not be the best idea?.

Tangle Patterns: Pea-Nuckle, Henna Drum, Flux, Fescu, Dublin

Refresher #191 with Printemps, Feeling Knotty, Nouvart, Patience, Auracross.

Tangle Patterns: Printemps, Feeling Knotty, Nouvart, Patience, Auracross

DIVA challenge #378 on a watercolored background tile with 123 O'Leary in old Roman style on columns and Lotos.

Tangle Patterns: 123 O'Leary, Lotos

My new Tangle: As.I.Am

...or should I call it a Fragment? As of late I feel like drawing lines, repetitively, not thinking, just the same over and over again. Sometimes the line result make no sense, sometimes it takes me by surprise and thus As.I.Am was born.

Step-out is simple: draw a shallow S curve into a square and add a little curve to each end of the S on top and bottom along the square. Or as per this image:

Tangle Pattern: As.I.Am step-out

A simple version of As.I.Am

Tangle Pattern: As.I.Am

A filled version of As.I.Am

Tangle Pattern: As.I.Am filled

Just another version of As.I.AM

Tangle Pattern: As.I.Am

As.I.Am in hexagons.

Tangle Pattern: As.I.Am in hexagons

As.I.Am embellished

Tangle Pattern: As.I.Am embellished

As.I.Am Knightsbridge style and Eye-wa as a string.

Tangle Pattern: As.I.Am Knightsbridge-style

An As.I.Am Zendala

Tangle Pattern: As.I.Am Zendala

Animal Saddest Day unless.... 

A whole animal rescue operation/hospital in Spain,Viktor Larkhill's Let's Adopt International, an extreme cases rescue operation, will be closing down due to financial difficulties. That hurts!!! I have no Christmas wishes for myself. I have all I need to live a happy and content live. But there is somebody out there with a huge heart for animals that needs me/us now. Please, if you would watch the video below and if you think: "Yes, I can skip going out tomorrow night and send the money to Viktor instead", or "I don't really have to go to Starbuck every single morning" and you set up a little "Off Starbuck - On Viktor in Spain" piggy bank, here a link the PayPal (you can use your credit card if you have no PayPal account), and his GoFundMe page. Many thanks to all those donating any amount. Everything counts!





...and a quick mention of Shadow... or rather the before and after Shadow tile.

Last week I published below tile. In the middle of drawing it, my beloved Shadow died. I received an email from Meridiana from the Drawing from the Day website wherein she wrote, and I quote:

And your Shadow tile...I hesitate to say this because you may not see it, but I see the snout of a dog poking out on the lower left side of that tile.  Like a cartoon of a dog just beginning to stick his head out from under some piled-up blankets (the Narwhal).  I see the nose, a black circle, the "snout" and an open mouth.  From looking at the photos of Shadow you put up, it does seem that's exactly the type of shape of head he had.  (But it's like a cartoon of the shape, the way Mickey Mouse is a cartoon drawing of a mouse).  Do you see it?  I think Shadow left you a parting gift.

BTW - Meridiana was not the only one who saw it.

Now here the tile again - Now I see it, too!!! What a co-incidence.

This is my last post for this year. So I wish
all visitors and their families happy and joyful festive days.

C U again in 2019

---

DIVA 376/7, IAST 269/271, Gratitangles, FB stuff, and Shadow

November 2018 was hard. Just couldn't stay focused let alone draw tiles. Now I am catching up by finishing tiles I recently started, but had dropped by the wayside, and do the challenges I never even looked at, but now feel the urge to participate. I feel like running up a downward moving stairway. So here we go...

This month's #fullmoonmosaic at Instagram asked for a tile with two circles of different size and off center with tangle pattern Madama on the inside and A-dalfa on the outside. Click here to see what others have done. The good thing in this challenge: only one tile a month and you have a whole month to join your tile before the new challenge is up and running. Love it.

Tangle Patterns:

This week's (or was it last week's?) facebook group Anything Goes runs under the theme 'Supersize' (I would have called it XXXL, but...), and I loved it immediately. I like monotangle tiles and this one asks that we draw the tangle itself ... XXXL. I tore one of my bookmark leftover paper strips into 3 5.7 cm square tiles and started drawing....

Garlic Cloves, X-perope, and an unrecognizable Dublin.

Tangle Patterns: Garlic Cloves, X-perope, and an unrecognizable Dublin

DIVA challenge #376, the 'It could be a Mosaic'. I used one of my Refresher tiles as inspiration for this challenge, Tanglepatterns.com Refresher #78 (see after the mosaic tiles). I took 4 small tiles (5.7cm square), but still it took me a very long time to finished them.

Mosaic A with combo

Mosaic B with combo

Mosaic C with combo

Tangle Patterns: Dublin, Shell xCape modified, Archer, Snapa, Elfhat, Abreve,

Loopy, MySwing, Tadpoles, Tipple, Fescu

The inspirational Refresher #78 tile.

Tangle Patterns: Crescent Moon, Tadpoles, Quare, Batch, Loopy

DIVA challenge #377 with Fengle vs Pokeroot. I am on my FB Anything Goes "Supersize" trip, the best way to catch up with challenges I missed as of late.

Tangle Patterns: Fengle, Pokeroot, tiny Tipple

Gratitangles day 6 with Verdigogh, day 10 with only single Cymes (and shaded as background filler) and FB's challenge Wigwag, as a border.

Tangle Patterns: Verdigogh, Cyme, Wigwag

Gratitangles 2018 on Mini tiles day 18 with Nymph, jumping the line with day 29 and the combo Pokeroot/Pokeleaf and some day 6 Verdigogh as garnishing.

Tangle Patterns: Nymph, Pokeroot/Pokeleaf, Verdigogh

Square One Nov 23-29 with Qua-Sahnt. Not sure I got this tangle right though. I made 2 tiles to practice. Green: Q-S with Kinggo; Brown: Q-S with a vase.

Tangle Patterns: Qua-Sahnt with Kinggo and with vase

IAST challenge #271 with XLNT (meaning 'Excellent' I assume?). Now this I call a line work 'test, fun, and exercise' and I grabbed it with both hands. The packaging paper is a bit on the uneven side, but on its surface interrupted lines can easily be continued without leaving that tale-tell blotch. For  me this tile was not so much about the end result, more about its therapeutic value.

I am still practicing Dew Drops. Maybe I should draw at least one D.D. on every tile until the end of the year to become the super master in Dew Drops drawing?

Tangle Pattern: XLNT with Dew Drops

IAST challenge #269 with Soluna, starting the tangle from opposite corners and different sizes. I am not much of a Soluna fan, but appreciate the tangle. However, I admit I googled for car wheels to get some different Soluna filler ideas. So here my car wheel Soluna on a mini tile:

Tangle Pattern: Soluna

Animal Sad Day and Mine

This is the tile I was working on when Shadow died. It was supposed to be a happy and hopeful tile, green on the outside and blue in the middle. It wasn't a challenge, no prompts, no string...just trying to give Snapa, a fairly new tangle I thought was interesting, a go. I started it in the morning working on the green parts...two days later I continued, swapping the intended blue color for black. It is now my 'Shadow' tile

Tangle Patterns: Snapa, Toodles, a bit of Narwal

Shadow died November 22nd, 2018. He was given to me when he was 4 months old and he was such a cutie. I adored him and fell in love with him on first sight! I remember him galloping towards me, fur flying in all directions. He looked like a mini Afghan (or flying carpet) with his long black fur everywhere, or when spread out on his belly on the floor like a mini furry foot mat. He loved everybody, but accepted a cat sleeping next to him only when he was old and wise. He was my team mate, my roommate that never contributed to the rent or brought me breakfast to bed, but he never took over the TV remote control. He was perfect! I thoroughly miss my darling Shadow and the good times we had.

As a Swiss I never heard of the Rainbow Bridge legend, a Native American believe, until the Internet. When pets die they cross the Rainbow Bridge to play and have fun with other animals. When our time comes they will spot us and run towards us and we will never be parted again. Then we cross the Rainbow Bridge together.... I love the idea!

Shadow in his last days. My neighbor's homeless cat often visited him, slept with him, ate with him, but she would not walk with him in the rain.

Goodbye my darling and R.I.P.!

Shadow!

I don't want to end this post on a sad note, so...

Animal Happy Days

If this dog hasn't figured out what makes life great I don't know who has - or a case of self-inflicted well-being.

Bye for now...

---

Paradox: Narrow, Narrow, Wide

When recently I missed the deadline to send my 'Narrow-Narrow-Wide' Paradox tile for Adele Bruno's 'It's a String Thing' (IAST) challenge #268 I decide the tile might be a candidate as my first contribution to the Facebook Zentangle Group 'ZIA Tips, Tricks, and Techniques'.

My Narrow, Narrow, Wide Paradox tile

Although I tried to explain in words how I drew Paradox, words are often not enough. So when people showed interest and asked questions in the technique I deconstructed and reconstructed my 'Narrow, Narrow, Wide Paradox' tile and came up with the following Step-out.

1. The base string came from Adele Bruno at Tickled to Tangle as the weekly IAST string. If you are not familiar with her and her challenge IAST, please click on the link. Every week she provides a string and one or more tangles to challenge us. Instructions for the challenge are found on all her challenge posts and the good thing...you do not have to have your own website or be on a social media site to partake in her challenges, you email an image of your tile to her.

So here Adele's original string

Original IAST #268 string by Adele Bruno

Original string on my tile.

Original String on my Paradox tile

2. Sections/Segments. Next I added sections to the string. I may have missed the one or other section or made a mistake here or there...it wasn't easy to find them all and redraw them correctly, but I think you get the general idea. My goal was to get triangles.

Adding sections to the string to get triangles

3. Now the fun part started: drawing Paradox. Into each triangle I drew the paradox lines narrow, narrow, wide, or narrow, wide, narrow, or.... It doesn't really matter as long as you mix them up. In the below section I started with the top line narrow from left into the right corner. 2. line from the lowest point up to the left corner and finally the 3rd line wide from the right down to the bottom corner.

Narrow, Narrow, Wide 1. Section

Then I added the 2nd section where I started with wide, then narrow, narrow.

2nd section added

Here the 2 finished sections.

2 sections finished

Final Narrow, Narrow, Wide Paradox tile.

Final Narrow, Narrow, Wide Paradox tile

Tip: I always liked the 'fan' you can draw with paradox when 2 sections are drawn mirror style. Of course, this is possible with NNW as well when the base line for the wide lines becomes the base line for wide in the adjoining section (blue). If the adjoining section is narrow, the fan 'shades off' (green).

The Paradox 'Fans'

Coloring: metallic color pencils by Raffine.

I hope the step-outs are of use, but if you still have questions, please contact me.

Maybe one of these days I will see a 'Narrow, Narrow, Wide Paradox' tile on FB?

Happy Tangling

---

IAST 267/8, DIVA 375, Inktober18, Gratitangles18, and a Refresher

I had a rather busy days last week and could't put pen to paper for five days. The longest abstinence since I started tangling in Dec 2015. I suffered terrible withdrawal symptoms. However, now I am back with a vengeance....

I hadn't finished the last 4 days of Inktober 2018 tiles, so let's begin with them.

Inktober18 day 28 Oybay and 29 Wud.

Tangle Patterns: Oybay, Wud

♻️ Inktober18 day 30 Frunky and 31 Cruffle, here on a toilet roll tile again, which I cut open and pulled over the table edge to flatten. I like the colors of these tiles and the drawing experience on the cardboard isn't bad either.

Tangle Patterns: Frunky, Cruffle

I never ever thought that WUD wud inspire me, but it did and wud not leave my mind until I did something about it. So here my "Inspired by...Wud" tiles.

Wud abstract. I love this one, I admit. The tile is from a business card sheet that is centuries old.

Tangle Pattern: Wud abstract

Wud bookmark - and I don't even read physical books anymore. All digital. So much lighter to carry tons of books with you when going on holiday or moving house.

Tangle Pattern: Wud

♻️ I hadn't finished my Wud bookmark tile when an idea popped up in my head..a silly idea. Here my Californian SF Wud Gate bridge. Bad weather was churning up in the East and it started to rain so I hurried home, else I wud have drawn several more Wud Gate bridge tiles on toilet rolls.

Tangle Patterns: Wud Gate bridge, Pop-Cloud, Sails, Diva Dance, Ruutz

My first tile after the torturous 5-day abstinence was for Adele, IAST challenge #267. I had to hurry if I wanted to meet the deadline. Drew it Saturday evening and took the photo Sunday morning outside in daylight. To live in the East, 12 hours away from the US, has definitely its advantages. The tile is a small Post-It notepaper.

Tangle Patterns:  Crescent Moon, Pokeroot, Static

....and then the new IAST #268 was published before I could count on 3. So I made this 2-sided Paradox.

Tangle Patterns:  Paradox 2-sided

I was still working on Inktober18 when a tangler friend sent me an images of the Gratitangles 2018 challenge running in FB. It's a Thanksgiving thing from what I understand and runs the 30 days of November. Love it! So here we go for November...

♻️ Gratitangles18 day 1 Rain with Icicles on a toilet roll tile.

Tangle Pattern: Rain (with icicles)

Gratitangles18 day 2 and 4 with Pepper, as leaves, and Jetties. The blue thing on the right was supposed to be Cadent, now it is just extra stuff. Cadent got an extra tile, see below.

Tangle Patterns: Pepper, Jetties

Gratitangles18 day 5 Cadent in a day 7 Fracas string - sort of - on an old business card tile. Well, I guess the Fracas string probably doesn't count so Fracas is back to the drawing board so be drawn on another day.

Tangle Pattern:  Cadent, some Bales

DIVA challenge #375 with Burtz and Gratitangles 2018 day 3 with Opus and lots of Sez to replace some of Opus' Tipples.

Tangle Patterns: Burtz, Opus, Sez

Refresher #190 - Bales, Aprox, Ah-nyx, Tessell, Torsdag. I made 2 tiles because, yes, I know I repeat myself, because I didn't like the first one. Unfortunately, the second one didn't turn out much better, so I blame it all on the tangles - but Tessell. I had to draw Tessell again....

Tangle Patterns: Bales, Aprox, Ah-nyx, Tessell, Torsdag

Tangle Patterns: Bales, Aprox, Ah-nyx, Tessell, Torsdag

Inspired by... Tessell. So here we go, a bookmark and 2 mini tiles.

Tangle Pattern: Tessell

Tessell in a wonky grid...

Tangle Pattern: Tessell

....and here I took 2 of the suggested versions and combined them drawing one vertically and the other horizontally.

Tangle Pattern: Tessell

Other Art

Inside The Mind

When I came across this image I instantly started cleaning up MY mind...just in case.

Animal & Human Happy Day

Yes, a Human got adopted, too! Be warned though, this video is so cute you have to restrain yourself from running to the next orphanage and dog shelter to get yourself a pair.

Enjoy the weekend.

---