Diva Challenge #231: Guest Blogger - Sharla Hicks, CZT - " The Undulating Tangles in C and S minor"

This week's guest blogger has an interesting challenge. It is to take a couple of the basic strokes and play with them. There are a few more suggestions. One is to take familiar tangles and work in a series. The other is to take a new one and begin a new series. This makes a little more sense if you look at her entire post here. She developed her style by redoing the same tangle and changing or pushing each attempt. I think this is what she means by a series.

When I hear undulating, the first person that I think of is Helen Williams. She has a way of weaving her tangles and lines across the page that is unique to her. So I chose to use one of her patterns, Tumbleweed. Cannot say that it is undulating as what hers would be, but it was interesting doing it. At some time I would like to try to do a little more with it. Here is what I came up with. I hope you enjoy it.

Tangles used: Tumbleweed, Stripes, Tipple

Shading done with 4B, 6B, and HB pencils.

I think I may have gotten a little carried away with the shading. I thought of using gray Prismacolor pencils to do the shading but I only have 2 gradients, 30% and a 50%. Did not think this provided enough variance. For some reason when I try to do Tumbleweed, I do not get that nice broad flow that I would like. Need to keep working with it. 

I have not had a chance to look at many of the things that others have posted. A few have shown up in my blog reader. Hope can look at them during the rest of the week. If you have not all ready looked at the other post at I am the Diva, would encourage you to do so. Give it a try yourself, even if you do not post it. 

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

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Square One Focus Tangle: Mooka - Gone Wild

This week's focus tangle on Square One FB is Mooka. This seems to be a tangle that people either really like or they really dislike it. I do not have a great relationship with it, but it is getting stronger. I think it is one that is a little more difficult to play with but that is exactly what I tried to do. I had done it before on a black tile. But that would not be an acceptable post on Square One. I have seen some very nice renditions of this tangle. Some have been in the traditional style. Meredith Yuhas is one of those. She just has a flair for this tangle. Have not seen one done by Shelly Beauchamp yet. She does some great looking things with this tangle also. If I have time, I may try to get a more traditional Mooka done later. Here is what I came up with. I hope you enjoy it.

Tangles used as embellishment: Crescent Moon, Stripes. Phicops, Hibred, Tipple, Meer, Ahh, Gneiss, & Diva Dance

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Zendala Dare # 97

This may be the only post that I get done this week. I was intrigued when I saw the template. I had an idea of what I wanted to do. I just was not sure exactly how to proceed or how it would turn out. I wanted to use the sections in the template as negative space. I did  accomplish that. I am generally pleased with the  results of the Zendala. The highlighting with the white pencil did not turn out as well as I would have hoped. I do not remember it being a problem before as I had used colored pencils on the Renaissance tiles before. The paper seemed to break down when I tried to do any blending. Was frustrating. Here is what I came up with. I hope you enjoy it.

Tangles used: Vache (variaiton), Stripes, The rest is just line work.

Shading/highlighting done with colored pencils, Prismacolor white pencil, and 4B pencil. The colored pencils was a mixture of pencils. 

I have not had a chance to look at many of the things that have been posted on The Bright Owl. Would encourage you to take a look and check out her giveaway. You may want to try it yourself, even if you do not post.

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

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Zendala Dare #96

After a significant absence Erin at The Bright Owl has again started to post the Zendala Dare. She posted one last week, but I was unable to get anything done for that. Before I was pretty regular in posting Zendalas. I like doing them but after not doing them with template for a while, it took a little time getting used to doing them again.

This is an interesting template. I do not remember one quite like this before. There were probably a number of directions one could go with this. Here is what I came up with. I hope you enjoy it.

Tangles used: Paradox, Betweed, Stripes. Fasset, & Zander

Shading was done with #2 pencil. 

I have only seen Erin's Zendala. Hope to look at a few of the others. If you are not familiar with the Zendala Dare, go to The Bright Owl and look at what others have done. Give it a try yourself.

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

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Diva Challene #203: "UMT - Athitzi by Seven

Have been busy most of the week with family things. Have not had a lot of time to do much tangling. Was not sure if I would get anything done for this challenge. I finally decided that I needed the time to unwind because of all the things going on. It was my way to take care of myself. This week's challenge is a Use my Tangle challenge. This is an unusual tangle and like Margaret Bremner, think of it more as a technique, but it can have dramatic results. The results on Seven's blog are a good example of this. You can click HERE to see her stepout and examples. I did not have a lot of time to play with this tangle so I kept it simple. Not totally thrilled with the results but also not totally disappointed either. Here is what I came up with. I hope you enjoy it.

Tangles used: Athitzi, Hollibaugh, Gneiss, Betweed, Tipple, &  Stripes.  Not sure the others are tangles. One is stippling and the other is auraing the shape. 

Shading was done with #2 pencil.

Hope this shows up well, I usually take a picture but do not have access to my camera so I had to scan it and then try to enlarge it. Did not use a template. Was not too difficult. Normally when I do a free-hand Zendala, I start in the middle and work my way out. This time I started on the edge of the tile with the UMT and moved inward. The next thing I did is to do Gneiss and then did the curvy Hollibaugh. Finished by choosing different tangles to fill in the spaces. Decided to leave a few blank and just shade as it seemed like it was getting a little busy. It has been a while since I have done a Zendala and I started this before I realized that Erin at The Bright Owl had posted another Zendala Dare. Not sure I will have time to get to that one this time, but hope to do those again. I still have to learn to use the Zendala template makers I won also. Well that is enough rambling,

Not sure how much time I will have to look at the other things posted. Would encourage you to do this as most people who post appreciate the views and the comments.  You can access the Diva's blog here. Try it yourself too, if you "dare". 

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

Go Tangle !!