Second Half October 2017 Refreshers

...continuation from previous blog post.

This is the other half of October's personal challenge theme: "31 October Days; 31 Zentangle Refresher Tiles". My previous blog contained 17 tiles all made between October 1st and 15th 2017.

So, with no further ado - here are the rest 14 tiles.

October 17 - Refresher #93

Patterns: Quib, Borbz, Blips, Mak-Rah-Mee, Bask-It

October 18 - Refreshers #120 and #66

Patterns: Paradox, Gnarly, Podz, YNY, Reflections

Patterns: XYP (Zip), Lantern, Fungees, Loblolly, Leaflet

October 19 - Refresher #68

Patterns: Strircles, X, Oskie, Heartrope, Pia

October 21 - Refreshers #103 and #165

Patterns: Mooka, Pax, Tipz, Window Grilles, Spiro

Patterns: Opus, HollyHock, K-Leesi, Curly-Q, Fluxogee

October 22 - Refresher #130

Patterns: XYP, PinBawl, Myko, Garlic Gloves, Tizzy

October 24 - Refresher #140

Patterns: Arukas, Crater, Rushell, Daviso, Mei

October 25 - Refresher #67

Patterns: Diva Dance, Tucked In, Fancy Nancy, Miander, Palrevo

October 27 - Refresher #119

Patterns: Knightsbridge, Roxi, Onion Drops, ZnZu, Beanious

October 28 - Refresher #69

Patterns: Punzel, Y-Ful Power, Neuron, Bray, Fang

October 29 - Refreshers #89 and #117

Patterns: Bales, Minouche, Aas, Framz, Exis

Patterns: Arukas, Yuma, Nuwave, Vano, Amphora

October 31 - Refresher #118

Patterns: Hollibaugh, JujuBeedze, Ha-Nuka, Xmas Red, Midnight

And with these 14 Refresher tiles my personal Challenge "31 October Days; 31 Zentangle Refresher Tiles" has been completed successfully! However, I haven't caught up yet...


A collection of all my Refreshers is in this flickr album,

...to be continued...

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3D Objects 188 - Tent

Joey's weekly 3D Objects challenge #188 asks for the 3D object "Tent" and the tangle "Frunky". I hadn't done Frunky before so I wasn't quite sure how best to go about it. I confess, I am [probably] not the biggest fan of Frunky, so ideas eluded me. I decided I needed a wallpaper change and off I went with my group of camping enthusiasts into the jungle instead. To my utter dismay I noticed they had mounted the 3D "Tents" all over Frunkies and  ruffled them. Here is the proof:

Pattern: Frunky - ruffled

Needless to say I am no longer a member of the camping enthusiasts!

Animal Happy Day

Dog Stuck In Well Is So Relieved When Rescuers Show Up

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3D Objects 187 - Cube

I recovered from my Bicycle Ride Along the River Danube mosaic challenge where my faulty start created an overload of tangles and colors that choked me for nine weeks. Therefore it is no wonder that I start - and very likely continue - the new Joey's weekly challenge series "3D Objects" in black and white. Not even a speck of color can be found, only two tangles are applied, and there is enough white space for the tile (and me) to breathe.

So here my Cube - the first of 7 different 3D Objects challenges - under the number #187.

Patterns: Betweed and Split Balls

Animal Happy Day

Guilty as charged,

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First Half October 2017 Refreshers

It was sometime last month when I realized - calculated - that at the rate I am going on my personal Zentangle challenge it will take me another 2-3 years to catch up with all the refreshers on the tanglepatterns.com site with each month two new ones being published. In order to get a big jump ahead, I sacrificed the month of October to my own personal theme: "31 October Days; 31 Zentangle Refresher Tiles!".

... and I did it!!!!

Here the first lot from October 1-15

October 1 - Refresher #54

Patterns: Keeko, Angelfish, Flourish, Cack, Girlande

October 2 - Refresher #55

Patterns: Auraknot, Sunflower, Shing, Knyt, Hypnotic

October 3 - Refreshers #56 and #112

Patterns: Nzeppel, Verve, DooLeeDo, CandleGlow, Pop-Cloud

Patterns: Florz, Chi, MaryHill, Xplore, Sprigs

October 4 - Refresher #81

Patterns: Auraknot, Maelstrom, Arundel, Good Joss, Fiore

October 5 - Refresher #134

Patterns: Assunta, Signalz, Pea-Fea, JJ, Pand

October 6 - Refreshers #58 and #87

Patterns: IX, Lanie, Cruffle, D-Vine, Capell

Patterns: Well, Spyz, Zanzee, Crusade, Chime

October 7 - Refresher 111

Patterns: Fife, Dio Sea, Yah, Ballace, Dutch Diamonds

October 8 - Refresher #128 and #164

Patterns: Cyme, Lolo, Kozy, Phroz, AcrossTick

Patterns: Cathedral, Aloha, 3D-Room, Litbee, Huggins

October 9 - Refresher #61

Patterns: Betweed, Botie, Cayke, Stained Glass, Sparkle

October 10 - Refresher # 62

Patterns: Bunzo, Funlz, Paizel, Chordin, Snood

October 13 - Refresher #63

Patterns: Ixorus, Eddy, Lace Curtains, Waft, Pouf

October 14 - Refreshers #91, #65 and #92

Patterns: Printemps, Pozer, Creznt, Undling, Seminole Patchwork

Patterns: Purk, Bugles, Tracery, Confettus, Via

Patterns: Punzel, Bumpkenz, Panthe, Amoeba, Up n Down

By October 14th I had 17 refreshers done and was ahead of the game!


A collection of all my Refreshers is in this flickr album,

...continues on next blog

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9er Mosaic Bicycle Tour Along the River Danube

Finally, I made it. The last three tiles are done and so is this particular challenge - and I am extremely happy about it - I mean, the fact that it is finished, and done. Don't get me wrong, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the challenge per say, but I started it on the wrong foot. Too many tangles, too crowded, too many colors...it is not me.

Anyway, here is Finish My tile (FMT) 184 with emphasis on N'zeppel...

Patterns: N'zeppel, Lolo (broken),  Ballace and some Split Balls
and a sail and bicycle

...FMT 185 with emphasis on Printemps...

Patterns: Printemps, Companion, Sprigs, Knightsbridge,
Fiore, Split Balls, Kinggo
and still more sail tips

...and the last in the series, the center piece, or FMT 186 with emphasis on Pokeleaf.

Patterns: Pokeleaf, Hamsix tangleation, and some tangles
peaking in from the surrounding 8 tiles
and sails with fish

The final and complete Bicycle Tour Along the River Danube with a bike, two sailing boats, a sun, and two fish.

I haven't been at all active in the challenges as of late. Well, that is not quiet right, I have been very active with my own personal challenge: to do all the refreshers and catch up to the present number of 164 asap. Last month I finished a total of 12, which is more in one month than ever before. October is looking even better already; managed 16 thus far and counting... My goal for October is to draw at least one refresher tile a day. Unfortunately, this leaves me no time to do other challenges nor visiting other tangler's websites. Please forgive me. Goal for next month? Will see...

Each end of month I upload the new refreshers to my flickr album. 

Animal Happy Day

Very clever...very clever doggy indeed!

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9er Mosaic FMT 181 to 183

You have no idea how much I wished my friend Hubert and his son had done a Camel Safari through the Gobi Desert (!!!) instead this Bicycle Tour along the vegetation-rich Danube, which I have taken as my theme for this mosaic. Alas, such is not the case and my 'suffering' through Joey's mosaic challenge continues. ("Hubert! We need to talk!")

However, and at last, I was able to collect and convince myself to stay in the game and thus I finished the missing last three weeks' tiles, bringing me up-to-date with the rest of the braves in this challenge. The good news is: only three more tiles/weeks to go.

Here my tile to the Finish My Tile challenge 181 with the tangle Breach...

Patterns: Breach, Zinger, Gottago, Jib

.....and the tangle Muscari for FMT 182...

Patterns: Muscari, Pokeroot, Pokeleaf, Eyehook

...and this week's FMT 183 featuring the tangle Ginili.

Patterns: Ginili, Cyme, Pomcoco

Bicycle Ride Along the Danube thus far. I thought it was a good idea to draw the tiles in a spiral with the crescendo in the middle. I mean, why make it simple when you can make it complicated?

6 out of 9; 3 more to go

Animal Happy Day

Finally! Here we see how very dangerous Pit-bulls are!

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DIVA Challenge 332 - 2 Squares

I was sure I was going to give DIVA Challenge #332 - 2 Squares a miss because I still have other challenges I urgently need to catch up with, namely my friend's "Bike Ride Along the Danube", or better known as Joey's Mosaic challenge. I have done but 3 tiles and tomorrow she has week 6 live. Ouch, that hurts.

My 2 squares are ZingZing, a new tangle for me, and the rest is silly decoration. Silly as in silly decoration, not silly as in dumb. Silly decoration. If I keep writing it...

Patterns: ZingZing, Mooka, Fazzy Wazzy, Tipple and 1 single Fescu

Animal Help Line

Why you shouldn't visit circuses with animals shows.

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Helen's Journey F - Fickle

I am getting somewhere...caught up with Helen's Journey A-Z where she has reached letter F - for Fickle. Fickle is a tangle derived from her tangle Faux Weave. I am glad she didn't choose the true Faux Weave because I have already dedicated an "Inspired by..." post to this tangle in April. I, too, tried a few variations, but never would I have thought of this beautiful "Fickle" version. It looks definitely different and I had to figure out how she drew it. It looks simple, but, as so many times with her tangles, it was a bit tricky.

I drew two drawings...one that looks similar to Helen's and one that doesn't look so similar to Helen's. So let's start with the 'not-so-similar-to-Helen's'.

I drew 4 rings and placed one Fickle eye onto each ring string. The rest developed by itself. The coloring happened in Photoshop (two adjustment layers: overlay and dissolve)

Pattern: Fickle

Here the version that looks more like Helen's. I have to confess, I had to give it several tries and still haven't really found out how she did hers. Anyway, this is my feeble attempt to Fickle.

Pattern: Fickle - coloring with Photoshop

Here both tiles in their original state

Animal Happy Days

Cute! Cute! Cute! (0:47)

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Helen's Journey D - Diva Dance

I am no Diva Dance tangler. I love to see other people's Diva Dance and some of them are captivating to say the least, but no matter what I do, I am never remotely 'captivated' by my versions. However, to have Diva Dance representing the letter D in Helen Williams' journey through the alphabet is and was Helen's decision alone (gr**!!!). Needless to say, hers is brilliant; it has so much depth!!!! It would take me forever to get to that point. Have a look.

So here my version of Diva Dance as per Helen's Journey and - thank heavens - let it be done with.

Patterns: Diva Dance with some Fescu and Tipple

Another Sirds image? Easy one - you can almost see that it must be a subject out of Game of Thrones. Good luck!

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New Tangle: Kinggo & Black Mountain

My new tangle: Kinggo

I drew it a few times and never knew what to call it. Now I have finally made it 'official' in my Zentangle life: the new tangle I named Kinggo.

Kinggo is a leaf drawing depicted from the Ginkgo or Maidenhair tree. It may look complicated but is rather simple. I like to draw Kinggo showing transparency which gives a nice effect when leaves overlap. It can be drawn as single leaves or in clusters and is a great space filler.

Click to see Ginkgo leaves on Pinterest

I am aware there are already two tangles out based on Ginkgo: Kogin (I don't know by whom) and Gobi by Nadine Roller, CZT.

Here my step out (the square is only meant as a guide):

Samples:

For DIVA #329

Kinggo in a square grid

 

For IAST #207

and here Kinggo with....

My new tangle: Black Mountain

I needed a tangle as a background filler for the DIVA #330 challenge and I thought it would be good if the tangle had a black tip. Instead of looking for one, I made my own and started drawing "Black Mountain".

Here the step out:

...and some samples:

Black Mountain in circles

Black Mountain variations

Black Mountain with my border tangle Lapin

Animal Very Polite Day

Naughty kids could learn from this dog!

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