100 Days of Zentangle; 7F5R; Square One; Inspired by...; Refresher; New Tangle

7F5R

♻️ 7F5R Tuesday Tea & Tangle Challenge week March 23 and 30 with tangles Zoomies and 4Giving. I added the new tangle Zajo by Isabel Wallis. Tile is recycled cactus packaging paper.

Tangle Patterns: Zoomies, 4Giving, Zajo

♻️ 7F5R Fortnightly Theme April week 1 & 2 featuring ING, with HUGE bubbles. Again on recycled cactus packaging paper.

Tangle Pattern: ING

7F5R Fortnightly Theme April week 3 & 4 with "Wiggly String". Tangles used: Indy-Rella, LunarFlux, and some Emoballs from 100 Days of Zentangle Day 75 invaded LunarFlux..

Tangle Patterns: Indy-Rella, LunarFlux, Emoball

100 Days of Zentangle

...continued from previous post...

Day 48 & 61 - Quib and Borbz

Tangle Patterns: Quib, Borbz

Day 65 - Zajo...with iLeaf and my new tangle Loom I.Am (see below) on a water colored distressed and transparent gel Diva Dance engraved tile. It wasn't easy to draw, let alone shade on this tile because the background tangle Diva Dance felt like candle wax. 

Tangle Patterns: Zajo, iLeaf, Loom I.Am

Day 68 - Fragment L002. Yet another bleached black tile. This tile I bleached about a week ago and it is still soggy and therefore almost impossible to draw on. If you want to shade with the tortillion you scrape the surface paper off. Have you ever tried to draw on a wet, soggy cardboard? And I still have a few of these tiles left.....

Tangle Patterns: Fragment L002, Printemps

Another soggy tile...based on Day 49 - Sand, altered. 

Tangle Pattern: Sand

Day 67 & 70 - Debeer and Snircles

Tangle Patterns: Debeer, Snircles

Day 73 - Well Love

Tangle Pattern: Well Love

Day 77 - Munchin...with Mooka

Tangle Patterns: Munchin, Mooka

Day 78 - Kuke...with Fragment D001.

Tangle Patterns: Kuke, Fragment D1

♻️ Day 63 - Hamail, day 75 - Emoball and day 76 - Panepinto. Again drawn on cacti wrapping paper which becomes quickly my favorite despite the paper being very thin.

Tangle Patterns: Hamail, Emoball, Panepinto

Day 81 - Auraknot....inside and out into Mooka.

Tangle Patterns: Auraknot, Mooka

Day 80 - Drawings with Ria Matheussen's new and very beautiful tangle Emera (I intend to use this tangle more often) and Fescu.

Tangle Patterns: Drawings, Emera, Fescu

Day 79 - Rumpus. 

Tangle Pattern: Rumpus

Day 66 - Rouche and day 82 - Hartfents.

Tangle Patterns: Rouche, Hartfents

Day 24 - Rainbow Bridge and day 38 - Yah

Tangle Patterns: Rainbow Bridge, Yah

Day 24 - Rainbow Bridge on a very tricky tile. The tile was so distressed my pens scratched and slit over the paper, and sometimes the pens left no evidence they were ever running over a certain spot on the paper. My worst tile yet except for the colors.

Tangle Pattern: Rainbow Bridge

...to be continued...

Square One

Square One week April 23-29 with tangle Cider. Additional tangles: Mooka, Emera, Xac and Fescu.

Tangle Patterns: Cider, Mooka, Emera, Xac, Fescu

Inspired by....

Inspired by...Fragment D001. Here it grows a bit in each star starting with star at 11 o'clock going clockwise. In the 2nd tile I digitally enhanced the stars according to growth from light to dark. Update May 20, 2021: The 'star" is now my new tangle X-Wing Star. Step out in next post.

Tangle Patterns: D001, Haykia, X-Wing Star

A Fragment inspiration. I took the simple fragment FS-Z018 as a Reticula grid and placed it again within, 4 in all (below), decreasing in size, just like the Russian Matryoshka doll. 

Tangle Pattern: Fragment FS-Z018

Fragment FS-Z018

Inspired by Zentangle Artists' Video Tutorials

Inspired by...Ria's April 2021 spring youTube video with Easter Lily and Cat-Kin. 

Tangle Patterns: Easter Lily, Cat-Kin

Refresher

Refresher #223 with tangles Ravel, Kulakané, KaBoom, Pernula, and Snircles.

Tangle Patterns: Ravel, Kulakané, KaBoom, Pernula, Snircles

A New Tangle

My new Tangle Loom I.Am with Half Orbs, Nekton and Printemps and Scrawlz and Quandary on the blueish water colored tile.

Tangle Patterns: Loom.I.Am, Half Orbs, Nekton Printemps

Tangle Patterns: Loom.I.Am, Scrawlz, Quandary

Step-out to Loom I.Am

Tangle Pattern: Loom I.Am

From my Garden

I have had cacti for...yeeears, but was pretty unlucky concerning blooming. I had already given up believing I have the wrong kind of cacti...e.g. males if there is such a thing, when I did a big cleanup. I changed their soil and gave them vitamins. Here is another result. 3 different cacti blooming in white, yellow and pink at the same time (there would have been 4, but I was too late taking the picture).

This is yet another beauty in my garden, Trinidad and Tobago's national flower Chaconia, or “Wild Poinsettia” or “Pride of Trinidad and Tobago”. It is a bush-kind of plant, but mine has but one stem which, after last year's 3 flowers, branched out into 3 stems. This year 2 of them sprouted out into 5 flowers where the longest is 38 cm/15 inches.  

The 5 flowers, 2 big and 3 small.

This is the longest of my flowers, 38cm/15 inches...

Time to Kill 

5th publication of the more difficult quiz, puzzle 17-20. 

For newcomers, "SANDBOX" is the example of how to 'read' and solve the 4 following puzzles. The answers are at the bottom of this post in the smallest, tiniest font size just in case you accidentally scroll down and read what you didn't want to read just then.

Puzzles 17-20:

Animal Happy Day

I am sure you have heard the phrase: 'we can learn from animals'. Watch this video and guess what it shows we could learn from animals, too.

And here a short, heart touching video I found on Rumble.

C.O. checking in to make sure I do it correctly.

Best Spring wishes to all and enjoy the outside

with or without the latest fashion item...

Puzzle clues: 17. Ambiguous, 18. A wolf in sheep's clothing, 19. Sailing, sailing (saline), over the seven seas, 20. Assassinate

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100 Days of Zentangle; 7F5R; Refreshers; Fragments; New Tangle; Inspired by...

100 Days of Zentangle...

...continues from previous post with...

Day 3 - Tentoculus with leaves. (If you need the link to The Tireless Tangler's listing, click here)

Tangle Pattern: Tentoculus

Day 29 - Ixorus and Blossy

Tangle Patterns: Ixorus, Blossy

Day 36 - Pooma with Diva Dance filler

Tangle Patterns: Pooma, Diva Dance

Days 32 & 34 - Novu, Haykia

Tangle Patterns: Novu, Haykia

Day 39 - Pais

Tangle Patterns: Pais, Fescu

Day 1 and 42 - Akebia and Rayga and the tile below is Akebia in a grid drawn on 1 white and 2 black bijoux-sized tiles. Then I glued them all onto a newspaper ad.

Tangle Patterns: Akebia and Rayga

Tangle Pattern: Akebia

Day 20, 38, 43 - Javik, Yah, Pip-in and additional tangles Doodah and Ying.

Tangle Patterns: Javik, Yah, Pip-in, Doodah, Ying

Day 44 - Half Orbs with Toodles

Tangle Patterns: Half Orbs, Toodles

Day 50 - Cindyer on very rough rice paper. Sand is in the middle, but it could be any petal tangle because drawing small and with details on this paper is almost impossible. A bit of Dive Dance on the outside. 

Tangle Patterns: Cindyer, Diva Dance, Sand

♻️ Day 56 - Adry with Paradox. No Day# for Paradox.....yet. The tile is recycled from a manila envelop and slightly distressed with water color pencils.

Tangle Patterns: Adry, Paradox

7F5R

7F5R Tuesday Tea Tangle March 9 with tangle Xac, Blossy and 7F5R Fortnightly Theme March, weeks 1&2, with X-String.

Tangle Pattern: Xac, Blossy, and X-String

A New Tangle

My new tangle Aishiam.

Tangle Pattern: Aishiam

Step out to Aishiam

Step out to Aishiam

Inspired by Zentangle Artists' Video Tutorials

This video tutorial by Emiko Kaneko sports the tangles Bireel Flipped and Taiga with Printemps and Dive Dance background. I do not have water color ink so I used my sparkling pearl water colors, but because I used smooth hard-pressed cardboard as a tile the colors don't stick well.  

Tangle Patterns: Bireel Flipped, Taiga, Printemps, Diva Dance

I came across Apple Lim's youTube video channel via an email I received from 7F5R. This is my Zentangle tile result from her Vol 11 tutorial. Her midsection is actually a wonderful night landscape, but I am more comfy drawing patterns, so I stuck to Taiga. The tangles are: Mazorito, Mooka, Taiga, Nzeppel, Diva Dance

Tangle Patterns: Mazorito, Mooka, Taiga, Nzeppel, Diva Dance

This is Twi6t with Souk. Twi6T I found in video tutorial by Alena Light and Souk, by Steph Kiefhaber, is a tangle I 'saved' for future use to my "Have to draw!" folder when I saw it on Musterquelle.

Tangle Patterns: Twi6t, Souk, Fescu

Inspired by...Harp, which was the middle February Square One feature tangle (here in my previous post). 

Tangle Patterns: Harp, Crescent Moon, Mooka,

Indy-Rella, Zinger Diva Dance

Inspired by...a water colored distressed black tile. Star is filled with Page Curl v1 and Moonpie.

Tangle Patterns: Page Curl v1, Moonpie

This is Adry with Biscus, Sez and some bubbles on a black tile distress with bleach. I never washed the bleach off and the paper felt soft/wettish and suck up the white #10 gel pen instantly. Maybe I should have washed the bleach off? 

Tangle Patterns: Adry, Biscus, Sez

Refreshers

Refresher #221 with tangles Quabog, Zap, Pooma, Corkin, Spurtle.

Tangle Patterns: Quabog, Zap, Pooma, Corkin, Spurtle

Refresher #222 with tangles Doodah, Krokus, Ying, Swimz, Hidden Hearts

Tangle Patterns: Doodah, Krokus, Ying, Swimz, Hidden Hearts

February 14-28 Fragments and Bijoux

...continues from previous post with...

Belated fragments February 14-17: 1. FS-Z002, 2. & 3. FT-Z006 )inspired by Zante), 4. & 5. FS-Z003 inspired by Cyclamen, and 6. the same FS-Z003 but in a Triangle.

Belated fragments February 18-21: 1. FT-Z007, 2. the tangle Ann, 3. FT-Z008, 4. FT-Z010 or Barney.

Belated fragments February 22-26: The first three different Feb 22 drawings are all from the same star-like string I found on Pinterest. 4. my new tangle Aishiam as a fragment, 5. based on Rayga, 6. the tangle 8's and the last, flowery on the right is FS-Z011 based on Biscus.

♻️ This is my new fragment FS-Z011 on a packaging paper's backside I got buying a cactus. I was surprised how good it looked so a week later I visited the market again and bought some more cacti just to get the paper. 

   

Belated fragments February 2 & 29. I got so entangled in my geometrical fragments I ran out of days. Hence I had to add a day to February. Fragments are: 1. Feb 26 left FS-Z012 and 2. a very similar pattern on the right in brown FS-Z015. The two Feb 28 in the middle are the same fragment just filled in differently FS-Z013. 5. is Feb 29, the day that doesn't exist, is FS-Z014

Above geometric fragments are based on these samples I found on the net.

Here are the new fragments I used in this post. 

1. row: FS-Z002,  FS-Z003,  FS-Z011
2. row: FS-Z012,  FS-Z013,  FS-Z014 and FS-Z015

3. row: FT-Z006,  FT-Z007,  FT-Z008 and FT-Z010

Time to Kill 

4th publication of the more difficult quiz, puzzle 13-16. 

For newcomers, "SANDBOX" is the example of how to 'read' and solve the 4 following puzzles. The answers are at the bottom of this post in the smallest, tiniest font size just in case you accidentally scroll down and read what you didn't want to read just then.

Puzzles 13-16. Good luck.

A Different Kind of Art: "Art by Nature!"

It took my little tree on the right almost one year to bloom and it happened without warning from one day to the other. I had changed its place two or three times during that time and was on the verge to throw it out and then the golden splendor happened. Patience is the key.

A new Black Bat flower. Isn't it absolutely beautiful? They don't say Black is Beautiful without reason.

I followed its birth over 4 days. Up to now I always only had one flower at a time and the time between flowers was 3-4 months. However,...

...for the first time I have a young flower blooming and an old one dying.

Animal Happy Day

Congratulations, Sir. You just got adopted....

CO in his most favorite daytime activity.

Had he known I would take a picture I am sure
he would have posed more courteous.

Thanks for visiting and enjoy the new spring.

Puzzle clues: 13. A gross injustice, 14. The odds are overwhelming, 15. He is an exponent of capitalism, 16. Astronaut

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