being brave

  Let's start this blog post off with a Travelling Tangles Project tile from Åsa Vading. She used Reticula RA-I and Fragment T5, from the Zentangle Primer 1 book.

  I added Ando and a variation of Flukes. Shading was done with Polychromos coloured pencils and a bit of graphite pencil.

  I teach weekly classes at Toa Payoh Central Community Club. Today will be the second class of this month. Here's what we created last week!

  We've also had many classes at the 7F5R studio... Here are some of my favourites...

  Embedded Letters! This student spoke Mandarin, so I chose to use Chinese characters on our large tiles instead of a single letter.

  During the class, we also got onto the topic of what it means to be brave. I told her that a lot of people think that bravery means being fearless... When, in fact, being brave means being scared but still going forth and doing the thing that scares you. There's also this other saying that goes,

"If your dreams don't scare you, then they're not big enough."

  What's something that scared you, but you still did anyways?


  Having the studio has also given me the freedom to teach classes in full colours. Here's a peacock class that we did..

  The 7F5R studio is located at 33A Hong Kong Street. It is very close to Clarke Quay and Chinatown MRT. You can also see a list of all the classes we are teaching in the studio via this link.

  Lastly, I wanted to show you this work in progress that I have... The background was created by Debbie and I've slowly been adding tangles to it as the days go by. She has been in Scotland for two weeks already, and I do miss her... Thankfully, she will be back real soon. :)

  And that's all I have for you this week. I hope to see you again soon. Until then, keep tangling!

petosky stones

  Here's my submission for Joey's weekly challenge:

Featuring Cruffle! There's also Beanz, Bales. Printemps, Tipple, and lots of auras.

  And Diva's challenge, too:

Petoskey stones that look like orange slices one moment, and flowers the next.

  Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week ahead.

mucking about with Mooka

  I received my tiga sketchbook that I backed on Kickstarter, and I've been using it for the past week. Here are some of the works I've done in it so far.

Hollibaugh within Hollibaugh,

Arukas is amongst those few tangles that I really struggle with.
I'm determined to get better at it, though.

I also played around with Mooka.
I didn't actually like the fact that it doesn't close. So I thought of ways to make it work for me.
Update: I've made a tutorial on how I draw my version of Mooka. Link is right here: (click me)

A coloured page for Diva's Challenge. Tangle used: "Grained".
I haven't decided what tangles to add to the tree..... I'll update this post once I get around to it.
(Shoutout to Dilip. It was great seeing you at CZT21.)

"Cruffle" and a variety of things I thought of doing with it...
As a border, as a tangle, and as "ornaments".

I've recently been obsessed with Heartswell.
It's just such a simple yet elegant tangle...

Done with Coloursoft.
I wanted to see how coloured pencils would lay on the sketchbook.

  Joni has been busy with a new project for Everything Is Art, so she doesn't have tiles to show for this week... Here's a sneak peak at what she has done so far, though:

  Thanks for looking and for leaving such wonderful comments last week.