This week's Diva Challenge is courtesy of Henrike Bratz. She is from Germany and attended one the recent CZT seminars after tangling on her own for a couple of years. She had recently been to Lisbon and took some pictures of different patterns that she saw. One she entitled the Lisbon fragment. You can see her step outs and variations
here. You can see more of her work on her block at
this link. She coupled it with Diva Dance as that tangle was one used in the first Diva Challenge that she participated in. She gave the option of doing a duotangle or adding other tangles to the tile. The Lisbon tangle is one that is nice to look at but for me, it requires a lot of concentration. Maybe it is because it is new to me but it is probably not one that I will use when I just want to get focused and lose myself in the repetitive strokes. I also think that it is a tangle that looks best when your lines are very consistent. Mine usually are not but it turned out okay. Here is what I came up with. I hope you enjoy it.
Tangles used: Lisbon fragment, Diva Dance, Finery
Shading was done with HB pencil and Sakura white Gelly Roll pen.
This is the first time that I used the dots like this in a tile. I had seen others use it and wanted to try it. I think that since my line work was not as consistent and some of the grids are a little wonky, this helped with the overall tile. I usually do little shading on Diva Dance.
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I am the Diva to look at some great pieces of art. I have not had a chance to look yet but am hoping to do so over the next couple of days. You can go there directly by clicking on the link above.
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