Diva Challenge #208 : "Duotangle - Cubine vs Pokeroot

This week's challenge is a duotangle. This was an interesting challenge as the two tangles are not necessarily good dance partners. I have not searched out what others have done. I have seen a few that have shown up on my blog reader. Not really sure what people have done to get these two to tango together. Will be interesting to see what others have come up with.

I made it a little more interesting as I have not been using a string much lately unless I am doing a class. I had readied a Zendala tile with the template from last week's Zendala Dare and never got around to doing anything with it. Decided to try to use this template for this challenge. Was not quite as easy I as I thought. After I started thought that it might have been easier to reverse the two in the different sections but was too late to do that so just went with what I had. This is one of those tiles that I think I will have to pull out later to look at and decide about it. I think that is more because it is a little different style for me and I had been allowing a little more negative space. Did not do that with this tile.  The one thing that I was pleased with is that I tried the technique posted on FB of using older microns to shade. I did this with the Poke Root and am pleased with the results. For me to say I am pleased with shading does not occur very often.   Here is what I came up with. I hope you enjoy it,

Tangles used: Cubine, Poke Root
Shading is done with #2 pencil, Fabrico grey marker and Micron

If you have not all ready looked at the things posted on I am the Diva, would strongly encourage you to do so. Go a step further if what you tend to do is just look, try it yourself. For even more fun, join in and post what you have come up with. It is always great to see the many different ways a challenge is addressed.

Thanks for visiting. As always, comments are welcomed, encouraged, and appreciated.'

Go Tangle !!