This is my take on Rick Roberts’ Kitchen Table video demonstrating how to weave Diva Dance through Paradox. I tried to add Betweed, but it didn’t want to “weave” with Diva Dance like Paradox does. I was going to color the blobs in Diva Dance red for Valentine’s Day, but since it already looked as if an aorta and vena cava were entering and leaving a heart, I decided black blobs with hot pink accents might look less anatomical.
For Christmas 2016 I gave Sach books, a book gift certificate, and a tangled bookmark with her name on one side and a variation of the tangle pattern Ponio on the other side. The tangle patterns I used for her name are S=Strircles, A=Afterglo, C=Cayla, H=Huggins.
These cards were created for the Solana Beach Historical Society Holiday Boutique held on November 12, 2016. I grouped them below into grid designs, whimsy bouquets, Aquafleur variations, and Showgirl variations.
Grid Designs:
Whimsy Bouquets:
Aquafleur Variations:
Showgirl Variations:
Wedding Card for Shana and Trevor
I filled a heart with multiple tangle patterns to create a wedding card. Found that I had to choose very simple patterns with a lot of white space or the heart looked way too busy and dark, especially at the center. Garlic Cloves along the top left edge is the only “dark” pattern because the pointy corner of the space had white areas on either side of it. Hope the bride and groom get a kick out of this card. The heart ended up closer to the top edge when I folded it in half to form a card, so I wove a bit of ribbon into the bottom edge. Oh well . . . c’est la vie.
Diana’s Birthday Card
I tangled this card for Diana for her 70th birthday. Paper is Canson’s Mix Media XL, 98 lb, 7″ x 10″ that I folded to a 5″ x 7″ card. The pattern is Olb by Helen Williams drawn on a wonky grid with a variety of fill-ins, including Helen’s Leaflet pattern “vein” fill-in. Shading done in ink and pencil.
Diana asked our mutual friend, Lloyd, to mat and frame this card. Below is a photo of the framed card.
A Valentine’s Day card for Gil decorated with Helen Williams’s simple and beautiful zentangle pattern Heart Offset. Inside text: Be Our Valentine with Love from Your Girls — Zoey Karen CiCi.
Colored pencil shading on tangle pattern Narwal.
This is a card with the tangle pattern Narwal that I tried to shade with Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils. Paper was Canson’s Mix Media 98 lb. Lots of room for improvement here.
October 2013 – Curved tangles only – Brayd, Girlande, Half Cruffle
Here is an attempt at a tile with no straight lines and no grids — curvy tangles only. It appears that some tanglers gravitate towards straight lines while others lean towards curvy ones. I noticed the previous examples in this blog tended towards grids and straight lines, so here’s an attempt to be more “well-rounded.”
This is also the first time I scanned my work instead of taking a photo.
This organizer bag for zentangle paraphernalia was made for Laurie P. who has been an artist all her life and recently took up tangling. I started with two very different batik fabrics that complemented each other. I was told by Laurie’s sister that her favorite colors are turqoise, orange, and any jewel tone. Well there’s no orange here, but maybe gold would serve as a substitute. I adapted a purse insert pattern named Encore made by StudioKat Designs to accommodate items commonly used for tangling.
The pattern came with directions for interior pen holders. I made the loops a little smaller so that pencils or tortillions could be stored with their tips up to prevent the tips from marking up the bag. The center of the bag is a zippered compartment with a flat pocket on one of the inside walls. Exterior dimensions are approx. 11.5″x5.5″x6″.
Because Pigma Micron pens come in various tip sizes and are supposed to be stored on their sides, I made horizontal pen holders for the outside of the bag. This should facilitate seeing the tip size imprinted in purple on the shaft of each pen, plus it’s easier to insert the pens sideways when the loops are on the outside. The color indicator on each pen is on the opposite end to the tip cover and it, too, is more readily visible with the pens on the exterior.
The interior and exterior pockets have elastic across their top edges so that small items will tend to stay inside. The elastic edges also hold additional pencils or blending stumps upright in the pockets so that you can see where they are immediately. The finished width of the pocket openings is 3.5″ — perfect size to hold zentangle tiles which are 3.5″ by 3.5″. I added small, short handles to the organizer because I envision Laurie taking it to zentangle classes. This organizer fits easily into larger tote bags into which folders, notebooks or larger paper pads can be placed. The little handles will make it easier to lift the organizer in or out without spilling its contents, and the small handles can easily be ignored when not needed.
Here is a second notecard attempt with Margaret Bremner’s original tangle named Chebucto.
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