GratiTangles 2020; Square One; Refreshers 216, 217, 218; 7F5R Tue & Fortnightly Challenges....

I barely survived last month's INKtober marathon challenge when I was swept into GratiTangles 2020 in November. I am a little bit overwhelmed so I decided that a) I pick the tangle prompts randomly and b) will draw monotangles or mix some days onto one tile. 

GratiTangles 2020 day 3 - Fife....well, I changed it a bit hence it is Fake Fife...and I did it in a Phi grid, so I could call it Phi Fake Fife.

Tangle Patterns: Fife

GratiTangles 2020 day 4 and 7 with tangles Ixorus and Auraknot respectively. Over night creepy Ixorus is sliding  its way out from under Auraknot and will probably land on top of it. 

Tangle Patterns: Ixorus and Auraknot

GratiTangles 2020 day 9, 20 and 24 with tangles  Mooka, Opus and Twing respectively.

Tangle Patterns: Mooka, Opus and Twing

♻️ GratiTangles 2020 day 8, 12, and 30 with respective tangles Shattuck, Pokeleaf and Pokeroot, and Ing on a recycled packaging tile.

Tangle Patterns: Shattuck, Pokeleaf, Pokeroot, Ing

GratiTangles 2020 day 7 and 17 with tangles Auraknot and Squid.

Tangle Patterns: Auraknot and Squid

GratiTangles 2020 day 30 with tangle Ing. This is pure Ing with all lines curved, 4 strands of it. Once it was in this state I  put a transparent sheet over it to check how best I can add to it, make it more dramatic, but... Sometimes less is more.

Tangle Pattern: Ing

GratiTangles 2020 day 10 with Rain...camouflaged within leaves. Or maybe this is a new tangle? I could call it Rainfall? Like leaves are falling in the rain? 

Tangle Pattern: Rain

GratiTangles 2020 day 26 with tangle Rumpus. Rumpus is not one of my favorites somehow. Maybe because it is a ball of messy stuff in it. So I tore mine apart. Now I call this "new" tangle "Rumpus Asunder". 

Tangle Pattern: Rumpus Asunder

And this is day 11 in GratiTangles 2020 with tangle Betweed. I had no real idea what I was going to do with this tangle so I started drawing tubes. When I approached the finishing line I realized I made a huge mistake: I should have drawn this tangle on a blue tile! As it is, the tubes turned very much into sea sponges. Watch below 30 second video.

Tangle Pattern: Betweed UPDATE: Drunk Betweed

These sponges are considered oceans vacuum cleaners. If you have never personally seen them, let alone in action, watch this interesting demonstration on this YouTube video (30 seconds).




I posted this Betweed tile in the Facebook group Anything Goes - Tangled Art For Everyone when I had 2 surprise reactions. Ljerka Ledenko asked permission to try my tile, which I gladly granted. An instant later I found this wonderful tile by Ljerka in the comments. I thoroughly love it! ...

Drunk Betweed curtesy Ljerka Ledenko.

...and PeteR Grantham was sure, this new version of Betweed deserves an extra name. So Ljerka came up with Drunk Betweed. I liked it and thus it is now 'Drunk Betweed'. Thanks Ljerka for drawing this wonderful tile and the name and thanks to PeteR for suggesting a new name should be thought out.

GratiTangles 2020 day 29 with tangle Keeko. 

Tangle Pattern: Keeko

GratiTangles 2020 day 25 with tangle Hollis. I resisted drawing circles.

Tangle Pattern: Hollis

GratiTangles 2020 day 28 with tangle Cyme - speak 'see-me'. I learnt that from Pat Mathes over at FB group ZIA Tips, Tricks, and Techniques that runs the GratiTangles 2020 inspirational challenge.

Tangle Pattern: Cyme

GratiTangles 2020 day 14 with tangle Goudgeous, and 7F5R Tusday challenges Nov 17 with Zinger and Nov 24 with SeZ squeezed in while kept simple. I only just started doing 7F5R challenges with the Staghorn tile below being my first one, or better, an apology tile because I placed GratiTangles tiles in their FB group and was asked to remove them, which I did. A few hours later I got another message now allowing GratiTangle tiles being published in their group. Oh, well, next year maybe. Meanwhile I check in with 7F5R every week for a new challenge prompt. 

Tangle Patterns: Gourdgeous, SeZ, Zinger

GratiTangles 2020 day 14 with yet another Gourdgeous tangle, day 29 with Keeko and a very altered Vega as a sub GratiTangle suggestion. Then in the FB Group Square One Purely Zentangle from Nov 13-19 we had the tangle Walkthrough.

Tangle Patterns: Gourdgeous, Keeko, Walkthrough, altered Vega

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Refresher #216 with tangles Zander, Lee-Bee, Dollpin, Mi, Bumpadox.

Tangle Patterns: Zander, Lee-Bee, Dollpin, Mi, Bumpadox

Refresher #217 with tangles Ambler, Rayz, Roloflex, Skelter, and And.

Tangle Patterns: Ambler, Rayz, Roloflex, Skelter, and And

Refresher #218 with tangles Avreal, Mosi, Mositoo, Auseklis, Novio.

Tangle Patterns: Avreal, Mosi, Mositoo, Auseklis, Novio

For Refreshers tangle listing and images from #1 to latest date click here or visit my Google Refreshers collection album for just the images. 

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Square One - Purely Zentangle. November 6-12 with tangle Zanglers. 

Tangle Pattern: Zanglers

Square One - Purely Zentangle. October 30 - November 5 with tangle Morrisseau on a water colored background. Hmmm, what can I say other than "at least I made something'. 

Tangle Pattern: Morrisseau

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My first tangle for 7F5R (7 Forests 5 Rivers) Tuesday's challenge. The November 3 challenge features a tangle called StagHorn - the white lines inside the black spaces. I point it out because when I uploaded it in the corresponding FB group Debbie E. New, the tangle's author, didn't recognize her own tangle at first. 

Tangle Patterns:  Staghorn with Printemps

7F5R Fortnightly Theme Nov 16, 2020: the tangle Luminesque. I didn't like the Christmassy tile so much so I made an almost monotile with Luminesque, accompanied only by Javik. 

Tangle Patterns: Luminesque, Javik

Tangle Patterns: Luminesque, Javik, Toodles, Printemps, Ahh!

Inspired by... the new tangle Flow Leaves by Miranda Gerber garnished with Mooka and Tipple. If you think it is a bit too colorful...this tile is dedicated to my friend Uschi in Switzerland who loves colored artwork. Uschi, I hope this cheers you up a bit....and if only for a minute or two. Thinkin of you and Meredith.

Tangle Patterns: Flow Leaves, Mooka, Tipple

Time to Kill

Here the last puzzles of set 1, 21-24. As usual an example with this SANDBOX hint. All results at the bottom of this post in the smallest, tiniest type just in case you accidentally scroll down and read what you didn't wanted to read just yet.

And here the new puzzles. Good luck.

Animal Happy Day

Sometimes a rescue may take years and you may ask why bother. The answer: because in the end it is totally worth it. Here is the case of Nina, a blind scared pup, with the best gift to the rescuer Viktor Larkhill.

Thank you for visiting my page. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving with all your family members together. Maybe you even considered inviting that lonely neighbor next door... ???

21. GI overseas, 22. Space program, 23. See-through blouse, 24. Just between you and me

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Inktober 2020, Octangling 2020, or TangleTober 2020...I Love them All - Day 16-31 (part 2 of 2)

Part 2 of Inktober 2020 October 16-31.

(sj) list by by Stefanie Jennifer, (taa) list by Tangle All Around, (sw) list by Silke Wagner, (pc) ist by Pattern Collection, (jp) list by Jake Parker, the founder of this October challenge.
 

Day 16 - Bunzo (sj) and Space Jam (taa) one each only in both tiles.

Tangle Patterns: Bunzo, Space Jam

Day 17 - Dragonair (sj), !ion!ion (taa), and Wonky Curves (pc).

Tangle Patterns: Dragonair, !ion!ion, Wonky Curves

Day 18 - B'twined (sj). Unfortunately, this tangle was the only one on day 18 I was able to work with. For 'it' not to be so alone on the tile I added yesterday's Dragonair-cum-Toodles sort of and some ever trusty Fescu and Tipple.

Tangle Patterns: B'twined, Dragonair, Fescu, Tipple

Day 19 - Molygon (sj). I always wanted to do this 'articulated' Molygon, which was fashionable among tanglers around November 2018 or 2 years ago!!! Mine are snaking up the medical symbol Caduceus. The second Molygon (sj) tile with Windfarm (taa).

Tangle Patterns: Molygon articulated

Tangle Patterns: Molygon, Windfarm

Day 20 - Hollis (sj) the edgy version and Conk (taa).

Tangle Patterns: Hollis, Conk

Day 21 - Quin (sj), Emoball (taa), Blossom Seven Flower (pc) and Sleep (jp).

Tangle Patterns: Quin, Emoball, Blossom Seven Flower - Sleep

Day 22 - Aquafleur (sj), Payito (taa) and Flowerleaf Multi (pc).

Tangle Patterns: Aquafleur, Payito, Flowerleaf Multi

Day 23 - Tropicana (sj), Sinko (taa), Rip (jp) and Ruutz to support the broken off tip and a Tropicana monotangle.

Tangle Patterns: Tropicana, Sinko - Rip and Ruutz

Tangle Pattern: Tropicana

Day 24 - Zenith (sj), Crux (taa) and Million (sw) dots.

Tangle Patterns: Zenith, Crux - Million

Day 25 - Aruna (sj) and Fairy Tale (taa).

Tangle Patterns: Aruna, Fairy Tale

Day 26 - Visible: Paradox (sj) and Uncorked (taa); Hiden (jp) is the Tower (sw).

Tangle Patterns: Paradox, Uncorked

Day 27 - Gelijoy (sj), Frost Petal (taa), Music (jp).

Tangle Patterns: Gelijoy, Frost Petal - Music

Day 28 - Icantoo (sj), Cruffle (taa), Sunrise (pc), and Loop (sw)

Tangle Patterns: Icantoo, Cruffle, Sunrise - Loop

Day 29 - Monotile Boterblom (pc) on a wonky grid below and Fassett (sj), RowRow (taa), Boterblom (pc). 

 

Tangle Patterns: Boterblom

Tangle Patterns: Fassett, RowRow, Boterblom

Day 30 - Hamadox (sj), Lap (taa), Payito (pc).

Tangle Patterns: Hamadox, Lap, Payito

Day 31 - Spud (sj) and Daphne (pc).

Tangle Patterns: Spud, Daphne

Killing Time

Here comes the 4th puzzle challenge. Again, the first image reads SANDBOX and is your clue on how to solve images 17-20. Solution are found at the very end of this post. 

Animal Happy Day

In my last post I announced this video about Viktor Larkhill's rescue of Huckleberry in Turkey. What went wrong? I am a cry-baby when things go wrong with animals. And now, typing only this few words make me remember everything again and the waterworks flow. Please click. Thanks.

17. Mind over matter, 18. He's beside himself, 19. A backward glance, 20. Life after death

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Inktober 2020, Octangling 2020, or TangleTober 2020...I Love them All Day 1-15 (part 1 of 2)

It's that time of year again....INKTOBER. It is the 3rd time I participate on this challenge. 31 days, 31 prompts...eh, no. Not quite. This challenge has grown roots and nowadays several lists are published by tanglers. 

The prompt lists are...

1. The Jake Parker (jp) Inktober 2020 list. He is the founder of this challenge and his prompts for the days can by anything you can spell.

2. The Stephanie Jennifer (sj) Inktober Tangles 2020 list. She is a tangler from my area, Singapore, and her listing comprises of tangle names. 

3. The Tangle All Around (taa) Octangling 2020 list. This is a Zentangle FB group 

4. The Pattern-Collection (pc) list. I think they call the list New-Tober. Pattern Collection, as its name tells, is also a very good source for tangle stepouts.

5. And last but not least the Silke Wagner (sw) TangleTober 2020 list. Her prompts are similar to Jake Parkers. 

Day 1 - Fish (jp), Flux (sj), and Jester (taa).

Tangle Patterns: Jester, Flux - Fish

Day 2 - Wisp (jp), Jackstripes (sj), Snelly (taa), Ondalina (pc)

Tangle Patterns: Jackstripes, Snelly, Ondalina - Wisp

Day 3 - Bulky (jp), Anthem (sj), Siri (taa), Pianorondo (pc). You maybe be wondering where the 'Bulky' comes in. Well, the black Anthems. Don't they look a bit 'bulky'. Anyway, as my German tangler friend would say: it is what it is.  

Tangle Patterns: Anthem, Siri, Pianorondo - Bulky

Day 4 - Unbirthday (sj), Meshmerize (taa), FloralySs (pc), Dots (sw)

Tangle Patterns: Unbirthday, Meshmerize, FloralySs - Dots

Day 5 - Pepper (sj), Tint (taa), Any (pc), Mirror Image (sw).

Tangle Patterns: Pepper, Tint, Any - Mirror Image

Day 6 - Henna Drum (sj), Brandywine (taa), Katerpy (pc)...and sadly no Rodent (jp) and no Root (sw).

Tangle Patterns: Henna Drum, Brandywine, Katerpy

Day 7 - Doodah (sj), Twisted Corners (taa), TingTing (pc) and a bit of (TingTing) Fancy (jp).

I posted this tile on Facebook and it was amazing how many different things tanglers saw in the illustration. I see a Fish! And a Squid! I see an Elephant! Reminds me of Salvador Dali's "Persistence of Memory", the melting clock faces. I see people dancing the tango... Nothing was intended and everything I can see, too. Can you?

Tangle Patterns: Doodah, Twisted Corners, TingTing - Fancy

Day 8 - Amarin (sj), Divi (taa), Celtik Around (pc) and there are 3 teeth (jp) somewhere on the tile, too.

Tangle Patterns: Amarin, Divi, Celtik Around - Teeth

Day 9 - Fugu (sj), Garlic Cloves (taa), Tong (pc), Cylinder (sw).

Tangle Patterns: Fugu, Garlic Cloves, Tong - Cylinder

Day 10 - Cadent (sj), Elbe (taa), Kiss (pc), Nose (sw from Day 11).

Tangle Patterns: Cadent, Elbe, Kiss - Nose

Day 11 - Divi (sj), Starfish-Too (taa), Maize (pc), Boat (sw from Day 10)

Tangle Patterns: Divi, Starfish-Too, Maize - Boat

Day 12 - Bosch (sj), OyBay (taa), Dolmania (pc), Rose (sw). I am in the cellar looking for my mojo, it certainly is not in the attic. Yes, my creativity has dropped into a black hole probably.

Tangle Patterns: Bosch, OyBay, Dolmania - Rose

Day 13 - Waybop (sj), Borbz (taa), Florious (pc). Here I follow the KISS method, Keep It Simple, Stupid. In any case, this, for me, is a real Zentangle classic tile.   {...and still no mojo}

Tangle Patterns: Waybop, Borbz, Florious

Day 14 - Iugo (sj), Beauchamp (taa), Rota Mirrored (pc), Musically (sw).

Tangle Patterns: Iugo, Beauchamp, Rota Mirrored - Musically

Day 15 - Monotangle tile with Abukas (sj).

Tangle Patterns: Abukas

Day 15 - Abukas (sj), RunCC (taa), Motif (pc), Musically (sw)

Tangle Patterns: Abukas, RunCC, Motif - Musically

And here my Inktober Inter-tangle-mezzo tile for half-time, October 15 1/2. Actually I started this tile way before Inktober 2020, but never got a round tuit. The lined flower inspiration came from Kaeyoshino, a Japanese artist on Instagram. 

Tangle Patterns: Flux, lined flowers

Killing Time

...and thus goes on my puzzle series. If you have missed the previous ones, refer to my last two posts. Here my clue to how it works. First below image reads: SANDBOX; now figure out 12-16. I know, it gets more and more difficult, but remember, solutions are at bottom of this post. You can always peak. 

Have fun!

Animal Happy Day

This is maybe not the kind of animal video I usually post, but .... well, please click and watch it!!! And it made me sadly happy that I am a tiny part of it. Sadly because I wished this all wasn't necessary. I wished our human race was particular kind to all (!) animals. But we are not and thus people like Viktor have these kind of paper collections.

Please click and watch! Thanks

In my next post I will publish a video about this little abandoned puppy freezing to death in Turkey. He was rescued, but there is where his luck ended. The story behind his short life is something I have never heard of. So stay tuned...

C.O. is well and so am I. However, I cannot say the same about the weather. Rainy, cold, clammy, greyish, unpleasant, depressing...I have no idea what I did to insult it so. But who wants to talk about the weather. So have a nice 2nd part of Inktober 2020. I have seen so many incredible tiles on facebook and instagram. Tanglers are fired up!

12. Circles under the eyes, 13. High chair, 14. Paradies, 15. Touchdown, 16. Six feet underground

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