Laura Harms, the Diva herself, is back from summer vacation. Welcome back, Laura! This week’s challenge is to draw a tile using the newest official tangle: Zenith.
For this challenge I drew a monotangle so that I could focus on learning the new pattern. It seems like Zenith would be especially nice as a border pattern. Anyhow, I wanted to see how it would look along a squiggly line so that is what I did. I enjoyed this challenge and am pleased with the result.
The guest blogger for this week’s Diva challenge #232 is Holly Atwater, CZT. Holly is providing us with a Duo Challenge where we can choose between doing an audio challenge (available on her blog), or to create a tile featuring the official tangle Betweed, by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas.
Life has been hectic for me the past couple of weeks. I’ve been busy getting my youngest off to college. At some point I want to try one (or maybe all three!) of the audio challenges, but I decided to go with the Betweed challenge. Thank you for a fun and interesting challenge with choices within choices, Holly!
The guest blogger for this week’s Diva challenge #231 is Sharla Hicks, CZT. The theme or idea for this week is Undulating patterns – think swaying, movement, tranquil, gentle, wavelike, organic, and repetition. The challenge is to create a tile using S and C curves which gives a feeling of undulating movement. The tangles suggested are IndyRella, SharlaRella, and Isochor.
My tile includes the following tangles: SharlaRella and Isochor, with touches of Fescu and Mooka. Thank you for a delightful challenge, Sharla! I quite enjoyed it.
Today I am departing from the more familiar topic of Zentangles – although they are wonderful – to Photography.
I have mentioned elsewhere on the blog that I have been learning how to use Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom (Creative Cloud). My personal objective has been to learn how to edit photos to bring out the best in them (without looking “Photoshopped,” or artificial), as well as to be able to restore old or damaged photos. I have a ton of old photos and slides that I inherited from my parents — not to mention that I have many of my own older photos that need some work. My goal is to digitize, repair/fix, and to be able to share these photographs with family and friends.
The guest blogger for this week’s Diva challenge #230 is Erin Olson, CZT. Her blog, The Bright Owl, can be found here.
Erin has challenged us to create a Zendala tile this week. She has designed a special Zendala template which can be downloaded for use in this challenge (the download link is available at the Diva’s blog). A link to instructions on how to transfer the template to a tile is also provided in her post.
My tile includes the following tangles: Batumber, Chambray, and Kuke. Thank you for presenting us with this fun Zendala challenge, Erin!
It’s another milestone for “It’s A String Thing”! This week (#104) marks the second birthday for the “It’s A String Thing” challenge. Congratulations, and Happy 2nd Birthday!
My entry was completed after the submission deadline for this challenge, but I didn’t want to miss out on the celebration. The string was specially designed by Adele Bruno for the occasion. The challenge is to include the following tangles: Drupe by Maria Thomas and Rick Roberts, Meringue by Kelley Kelly, CZT, and Prestwood by Margaret Bremner, CZT.
Sandy Hunter, CZT is the guest blogger for this week’s diva challenge. We are asked to create a tile that features white space so that the eye can rest. It is true that we often do want to fill up every part of a string with tangles. This is fun but can also result in a tile which is too busy. White (negative) space is good.
When I began I was going to have a monogram where the letter was blank, surrounded by different patterns. (Thanks for the suggestion, Sandy! I’ve been wanting to do this for a while and hadn’t gotten around to it.) After I got going I decided to place Henna Drum flowers along the curves of my monogram. I thought it would work better to fill in the letter S with color, and have negative space surrounding it. While I’m pleased with the result, I think I will try to find some color pens that are more nuanced. My blue pen seems a tad too dark for this purpose.
This week’s It’s A String Thing challenge is to use string 103 by Grace McIntyre from TanglePatterns, and to incorporate tangles Meer, Mi2, and Mr. E.
This challenge proved to be difficult for me. I simply could not figure out how to fit the designated tangles within the curving, spiraling string. Eventually I chose to modify the string a good bit in order to fit in the patterns. I suspect that once the results are posted on Monday I’ll realize that there were all sorts of ways to follow the string that I didn’t see. Oh well, hindsight is 20/20. Anyhow I learned two new tangles this week, and had fun with this tile.
