Joey 222, IAST 249, Calla, Maryhill Orchid, and a Headdress

Square One last week had Lily Moon's Amphora tangle (a tangle I have only seen drawn perfectly by the inventor herself!). After I finished it I couldn't quite decide whether it was a Red Indian Headdress or an old Roman War Helmet. The decision is in the eye of the beholder I assume.

Tangle Patterns:  Amphora, Veezy minus bubbles, Trique,

Clob (for lack of knowing an other tangle name), Square (One) Printemps

Joey's weekly challenge, #222, according to her blog, maybe her last. Not just her last in the Front and Center theme, but as her 'weekly challenge' overall series. This is sad and I am already missing venturing to her site late every Monday afternoon to find out what is on her challenge menu. Joey, thank you so very much for all the challenges you put out there for us! Should you ever reconsider, I will be right there following you again!

I made 2 tiles for Joey. The first is a pretty strict, no frill tile...

Tangle Pattern: Maryhill

...and the 2nd is a more Maryhill abstract or inventive one - I call it my Maryhill Orchid.

Tangle Patterns: Maryhill, Miff, Raindotty, Tipple

I wanted to do a fun tile with Dublin, but I forgot how to draw Dublin and it turned out more like the flower Calla. I am sure this tangle exists already, hence my sincerest apology in advance for misnaming it.

Tangle Patterns: Calla, Sprangle, Sand Swirl, Tipple

IAST #249 with Abeko and Diva Dance or Rock 'n Roll. I hurried to get this done and posted and now I am off watering the gardens.

[10 min later] Oops, I am back. Forgot to bloody publish the post.

Tangle Patterns: Abeko, Diva Dance Rock 'n Roll

And here some real life stuff outside my tangles. I have a new cat visitor. No owner, no name and pregnant. But I know my cat-loving Swiss neighbor will adopt her and let her do her motherly nursing safe and sound in his storeroom-cum-cat nursery. Look at those beautiful light blue eyes...well, the whole cat is beautiful!

*** MISSING ***

Update July 1st: This morning my Swiss neighbor asked me
(and other neighbors he knew the cat visited), whether
I had seen the cat in the last 2 days. It seems, she has
gone missing, but we don't think she was ready yet to
give birth and therefore gone hiding somewhere.
Now, instead of enjoying a nice sunny Sunday,
we all worry about this stray cat!!!!

Nameless, ownerless, pregnant cat

Now this is weird. This is a snake skin. I find them every once in a while, but mostly on my bathroom window. However, I never found one that had a knot in it. Believe me! I did not make that knot!!!

Snake skin knot

A cactus flower I got from my water pump repair guy. On his last visit he mentioned he has cactus blooming in his garden every day. I couldn't resist. I showed him a new 'opening' in my crowded garden and discretely mentioned that one of his cactus pots would be very welcome to occupy that space. The rest is history. Beautiful as these flowers are, they last but for a few hours.

Cactus flower

And last but not least my senior roommate darling Shadow. He will be 16 in about three months, September 7th to be precise.

My darling Shadow

Animal Happy Day

 🎶 Big boys don't cry🎵

And on a slightly different 🎵....

...one more LEGO brick, please!

Have a great weekend!

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Joey 220, IAST 247, Bracco-Line, and a Betweed Flower

Presently it seems I am hooked on Bracco-Line, love it to bits. I also promised Ragged Ray to do her new Miff tangle again...and not to mess with it as in my last post. Promise kept! Then there is a new tangle called Purdy with a missing stepout. So I called the Enthusiastic Artist and asked for instructions: "Draw several parenthesis from outside big to inside small. However, be extremely careful not to...." Oops, the phone line broke. Damn, now we will never know the most important warning concerning this tangle!

Tangle Patterns: Bracco-Line, Purdy, Raindotty, Miff, Beadlines, Sez

Oh no, we just had Puf in another challenge and I didn't do well then (too slim or not puffy enough one and too abstract the other), and now Joey's weekly challenge #220 is Puf. So why would I do this Puf challenge? The answer...

No idea!

So on this tile I violate not only Joey's rule for her 12-week theme Front and Center (it became Back and Off-center), but I also mutilated dear Puf - again.

Tangle Patterns: Loev, Tropicanais, Puf

♻️ IAST #247 challenge is honoring DAD's day with a DAD string and DAD tangles D'Rua, A-Dalfa, and the manly tangle Dex.

Tangle Patterns: D'Rua, A-Dalfa, Dex

♻️ Scare One, week June 8th, focuses on Loev. Here Loev on two tiles on two intertwined strings as per Helen Williams' String Grid. The 1st tile recycled from a notebook cover and the 2nd tile another 'eco-cum-watercolor' leaves print.

Tangle Patterns: Loev, Fescu

Tangle Pattern: Loev

Betweed Flower - a simple and very quick Fun Tile!

Tangle Patterns: Betweed

♻️ My first Dingbatz on toilet roll paper where I pulled the sheets apart. Will there be more? Don't hold your breath.

Tangle Patterns: Dingbatz

Focus on Bocksbeutel and Dewd. Happy Birthday, M.G.

Tangle Patterns: Bocksbeutel and Dewd

♻️ = Drawn on paper I recycled

Animal Happy Day

A great life changing moment!

Enjoy a great weekend!

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DIVA 364(B), Joey's 218, eco-dyeing, a mosaic, stippling, and more

Another ✔️ on an item on my "I-Always-Wanted-To-Do-This" listing; this time for "eco-dying". I am anything but a cook so steaming for 2 hours (!) was out of the question, I had to come up with a fast and "raw" eco-dyeing technique and what jumped to mind was water colors. I am still testing, but the first results are not too bad.

Not sure I can still call it 'eco' but here is my first yellow 'eco'-dyed tile with focus on Keenees, an inspiration I got from this week's Square One.

Tangle Pattern: Keenees

Still under the theme "Front and Center" this week's Joey challenge, #218, features the tangle Dicso.

Tangle Patterns: Dicso with some rocks

...and cut from the same 'eco'-dyed paper as Keenees but featuring a variation of Dicso off-center.

Tangle Pattern: Dicso

Here is the original yellow 'eco'-dyed water color paper I used for Keenees and Joey's challenge.

eco-dyed with water color and pressed with old leaves

DIVA #364B or DIVA #364 of May 28th? I checked the site several times this week and wondered why the 364 didn't change to 365. Was the DIVA late again? Then I scrolled down just to make sure I didn't miss anything and there it was: DIVA #364: Puf!

My first DIVA tile got off to a bad start. I messed up Puf. So I messed it up even more (I mean if you mess up, mess up big) and now Puf is unrecognizable and I have a fun tile. Perfect!

Tangle Pattern used to be Puf,
now it is Unrecognizable Puf

DIVA attempt #2. This tile is also made using the eco-dyeing water color technique, but this time I used it on normal drawing paper. I am still testing...

Tangle Patterns: Puf, Lee Bee

I recently noticed that I haven't seen anything from Meridiana for a while. So I visited her site and found out, she had been very busy with a recent Zentangle workshop followed by her very own first real Zentangle teaching job. Congrats, M!

The workshop was basic stuff, but in her 3rd post I noticed a mosaic that interested me. I had to do it! Now! No adding another item to my infamous "I-Always-Wanted-To-Do-This" list. Thanks, Meridiana, for a great inspiration!

So here a quick tile with a great mosaic effect...

Tangle Patterns: Pokeroot, Crescent Moon, Hollibaugh, Tipple

...and here the mosaic tiles comprised by above tile.

I am now the proud owner of my own Mosaic tiles!!!!

Update: WOW! Thanks, Meridiana, I am greatly honored!
You dedicate a whole post to me and my tile/mosaic. I am speechless!

♻️ This is another item from my "I-always-wanted-to-do-this" tile series. I don't refer to the tangle Rundl or Molygon (inspired by last week's DIVA "Remake"), but printed paper. This tile is cut out from the local Fascino drugstore glossy magazine...and it will be the only tile cut out from a glossy magazine (color pencil on glossy paper...nope!). Newspaper paper up next.

Tangle Patterns: Rundl, Molygon, Sweet 101

And the new tangle of the week is....Hearts & Diamonds by Helen Williams from a little lime. I made mine on a wonky grid and that forced me to put a spin on it. I couldn't do the lines as per pattern, only aura'd half of the hearts and filled the diamonds with duo color stippling.

Tangle Pattern: Hearts & Diamonds with 2 color stipling

♻️ A fun tile drawn on tracing paper glued on bed sheet packaging paper (= half recycle?). When I drew Bracco-Line, a gorgeous tangle, I realized how gracefully it flows into Ilac. Meanwhile I am still practicing my ribbons....

Tangle Patterns: Aloha, Sand swirl, Ilac, Bracco-Line
and a ribbon

And finally Bracco-Line duo-colored stippled on a TT.

Tangle Pattern: Bracco-Line stippled

Animal Happy Day

Tissues! Tissues, please!

Enjoy and have a splendid week/weekend!

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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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