mother's day gems

  Hello lovelies~ How has your week been? Half of my household is down with the flu right now. My husband and I are still going strong, thankfully. I've planned for us to go on a date to a board games cafe today. :) Very excited for that.

  Here's what I did for this week's Zentangle challenges. Joey wanted us to use the tangle, "Friendship". The Diva wanted us to use auras in our tiles. In the top tile, I used Friendship as a border tangle and added Featherfall. With the bottom tile, I echoed the gemstones of Friendship, and used Tripoli and Diva Dance Waltz.

I really like finding ways to join tiles together in a sketchbook.

  For Mother's Day, I created some paper flowers, inspired by the lovely li.la.o on Instagram. It was great fun, and I might just do a video tutorial on the project some time in the future.

  Even though I'm currently seven months pregnant, it didn't feel very Mother's Day-y for me... I'm guessing perhaps it'd feel more real next year. I did spend a lovely day with my mum. We went out shopping and for tea.

Done with Peerless watercolours.

  If you haven't seen it already, I posted a flip-through video of my Givetangle/Gratitangle 2017 sketchbook...

  I'm working on my spiral-bound Fabriano sketchbook. It contains drawings done using ballpoint pen or Neocolor. Here's one page I completed recently. It is a study done of a painting I found in an instructional book. I really like the colours. Looking at it on screen, I would darken the darks, though.

Neocolor II, used without water.

  And that is all I have for you this week. Thanks for stopping by.

Zentangle Challenge: White on Black

   Diva's 218th Zentangle Challenge was to use white ink on black paper. I used the dark chocolate paper that I had in my Journal Enviro sketchbook, but I drew out little boxes so that my drawing area would be the size of a zentangle tile. The most opaque white pen I've ever found was the uni-ball Signo Broad pen. The pen is a gel-roll pen so it has no toxic fumes. It also dries really quickly. However, when using it, I do have to draw more slowly otherwise the ink would skip. It also doesn't come in a thinner nib size, so you can't get super detailed in your drawings.

I used Coloursoft coloured pencils to add shading effects to the tile.

  I didn't have time to finish the 217th challenge last week... But since I was already tangling, I thought I should do something for it too. The 217th challenge was to do something called a "duotangle" which is a tile done with only two tangles. It was difficult to make the tile look unique cause I only had two patterns, Dex and Bunzo, to work with. But here's my take on the challenge:

Also, happy belated birthday, Laura~   *waves* 

  It was Mother's Day on the 10th of May in Singapore. (Apparently, some countries didn't celebrate Mother's Day on that day...) And I know this is super late to post, but I did show one of the following pictures on my Instagram and I thought it'd be nice to post the other two pictures here.... So, here's the gift I gave to my mum:

It's a decorative handicraft box that serves no purpose other than looking pretty.

And no, the cake isn't edible, either.
It's made of paper and sparkles.

So, yes. My gift was completely impractical but super pretty.
She loved it, and I'm glad for that. ^-^

  To see my previous Zentangle Challenge submission ( click this link ).

  To see my next Zentangle Challenge submission ( click this link ).