For some reason, this post was hanging out in my draft box and was never posted. (Oops.) But in any case, I thought you'd like to see the nice things I created.
Flukes and Hamadox. Simple yet so elegant.
If you look closely on the bottom left side of the tile, you'd see that I had tried adding dots using a white pen but ended up not liking it...
Luv-a and Diva Dance Waltz.
A variation of Shattuck and Florz, with a rainbow background done using Derwent's Coloursoft.
This one is Bales with watercolours.
And another with watercolours featuring Diva Dance Waltz with Paradox.
I hope you're enjoying your summer. Singapore is a tropical country so we don't get seasons. But it seems like I've been using a lot of flower-y tangles lately...
A family friend has a birthday a while ago. And my mum and I *finally* got around to creating a tile together as a present for that friend.
I did the Ando and Tipple. She did everything else.
Here's a throwback to Joey's Challenge #114. Featuring Shattuck, Barber Pole, Cheesecloth, and an "XIV" string...
I did another variation of this challenge, but me being me, I haven't gotten around to completing it just yet. Oopsies. I'll get there, though... Eventually.
Here's my entry for this week's Diva Challenge:
I used some inspiration from this week's Joey's Challenge- Maryhill. See whether you can see the Maryhill fragments in the tile. There's also Afterglo (which is a new tangle to me), Printemps, and some other lines.
Sticking with the black-white-red theme... Here's a tile I completed for the Travelling Tangles Project. This was done with Jo Flaherty.
She did the bottom portion and the small red thingie at the top right corner. I added Crux and Snail.
To be honest, I never quite like how my Renaissance tiles turn out. This beauty was from Kim Aarts-Bruins. I added Ando and Dervish. But I didn't like how my shading turned out... The grey graphite made things look muddy. The members in the Travelling Tangles group assured me that it looked just fine, so I guess we are our own worst critique.
Kim sent me another tile with Singapore Sling on it. And that tile is white, so I'm sure I'll have a better time with that tile.
Last one. Done with Janet Day.
She did the watercolour background and the blob thing. I did the rest and added shading with coloured pencils.
Thanks for stopping by to have a look. Till' next week. ^-^
I didn't get time to post my submission for Joey's Challenge last week! Congratulations, Joey, on 100 wonderful weekly Zentangle challenges. ^-^ Here's my tile with the "100" string:
Derwent Inktense on Canson paper. It was a very *very* loose interpretation of the "100" string.
Onwards to other tiles!
Fassett and Bales done during a class.
Flux flower with Diva Dance. I really liked this tile.
Notice a trend? Hovering tangles with another tangle for the background. Simple but very effective. Here's Hamadox and Mumsy. Looking at it on screen, I would've probably added more weight to the outlines of all the Hamadoxes.
If you don't know yet; I recently went to Art Friend (it's an art shop in Singapore) and they were having a promotional sale on all Canson products. So I bought lots of things and made a review about what Canson papers and sketchbooks are available. There's even a giveaway at the end of the post. You can find it via this link.
I also finished working on one of my typography books and have already started on the second one. Such fun! Here are a few pictures from the first:
And if you missed it, here's the flip-through video of the whole sketchbook. (it even has a little speed-drawing in the middle. hehehe)
I also did a Zentangle drawing with really inexpensive pens by Uni-ball. I've done it till' this part:
Still need to finish with shading and adding of Zengems.
And I also have a speed-video of me creating it right here:
Onwards!
Here's an ATC I made for a swap. Pardon the poor lighting. It was at night and I wanted to pack it into an envelope so that I wouldn't forget to mail it the next day.
And some other Zentangle tiles:
Hamadox and Sand Swirl, plus Printemps on the black flourish.
Again, Hamadox. This time with some Sharla Rella.
This week of Diva's Challenge was to do a tile inspired by a tile you did a long time ago. So here's a thing I did in February of 2014:
I used to draw tangles exclusively in sketchbooks. So this was the closest I got to a square format.
And here's the tile reimagined:
Done on Canson paper with Derwent Inktense laid on it. Shading was done with a black Coloursoft. A sort of "Hypnotic" on the left, "Facets" remained the same, "Sharla Rella" looks much more mature, circle changed into a wave of "Reticulated", and a pretty "Yuma" on the lower right. I'm very proud of my progress. ^-^
I'm also very excited to announce the start of a new project I'm working on.... The "Travelling Tangles" project. It is a collaborative project between Zentangle artists from all around the world. The idea is that you will draw on an original Zentangle tile but only finish the drawing half-way. Then you will send it off to another CZT for him/her to complete it. In exchange, they too will half finish a tile and send it to you for you to complete. Both of you will then each have a tile to keep. I first posted the idea of the Certified Zentangle Teachers Facebook page and it received really positive feedback. Many of the Certified Zentangle Teachers have begun swapping. The project is open to any and everyone, though.
I've started with eight swaps so as to not overwhelm myself, and here they are:
It felt weird to not complete the tile and to not add shading. hahaha
When I first came up with the idea, my vision for it was to show others how the Zentangle® method has reached people from all around the world; and also to show that the Zentangle method goes across all race, religion, and creed to bring people closer to one another. It also felt like the next logical step with Zentangle- that people would begin collaborating with other artists to complete a tile. I'd been doing collaborations with my mother, Joni Toh, already and every tile we did together was always fun.
I think it'd also be really interesting because when you start a tile, you mostly have an idea of how you're going to finish it. However, when you have to finish someone else's tile, you might have to think differently, and how you'd finish a tile would probably not be how another person finishes the tile. It's going to be lots of fun- that, I know for sure. And if you'd like to be a part of this project, here is the Facebook group that I opened for it. Travelling Tangles.
I hope you'll join it and be a part of this new adventure, and I can't wait to see what everyone will create. ^-^
