It has been a busy week. Since coming back from Providence, I have been cleaning and purging the studio, and OCD'ing on some YouTube Videos for Faux Leather Journals I have so man ideas and things swimming around in my head, its been difficult to wrap my brain around any one thing for very long, making it *VERY* difficult to sit down and tangle.
This week's challenge from the Diva came from guest poster, Sharla Hicks. This initially struck fear in me, as Sharla is my mentor, my idol, and such a wonderful artist. Her tasking was to take your "go-to" tangle and rethink it. Re-imagine it. Use it some way you have not.
I have a couple favorites that do intimate themselves in a few things. When I am pressed and just want to color, I squiggle a line and Stripe away at it. I've only used Stripes as a focal, usually a monotangle. So here, I used it as a border. It came out...interesting. For the inside, I did a bit of a study in ING, Hollibaugh Style. While working that out, I found that if you start both sides from the same end, it makes a completely different pattern than starting from opposite ends.
For a different angle on tan, I worked on the Strathmore Toned Tan, but instead of brown, I used blue, and the Indigo chalk pastel. The N'zepple pearls that kind of glow? pencil shaded then colored in with Zenstone. Neat shading technique...makes it shiny.
Oh...and lastly, I always work pretty small...even on bigger paper (this is 9 x 6 isn) so I went big here...Bigified it!
Here is the Stripes I did while I was recently in the San Antonio Airport for 8 hours (gotta love flying standby.)
Still working on re-doing my blog page. I guess I'm going to have to go in and edit it by hand to get what I really want.
Stay Crazy my Friends!
I LOVE what you did with Ing! Especially 'Nzeppel. The blue really sets it all off well on the tan. Will you have to set the zen stone do you think?
ReplyDeleteI smeared over the Zenstone with my finger and nothing came off. I rubbed it int a bit with the actual stone, so its almost shiny on the paper.
DeleteLike your border and your play with Ing. That is not one that I have used much, maybe never. great variations. will have to look into it.
ReplyDeleteLove the blue stripe. I'm new - what is Zenstone shading - is it an actual stone that you use to burnish your work or am I way off? (Google tells me it's some kind of MP3 player - lol)
ReplyDeleteIts a soapstone stick...you can buy it here: http://www.zentangle.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=products.tpl&product_id=180&category_id=10&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=44 or from your local CZT.
DeleteThanks Charlotte
DeleteWow, this is a great tile, Charlotte!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat Tangles, Charlotte. You do great stripes.
ReplyDeleteI love stripes...I guess it shows! Thanks!
DeleteThe tile is beautiful. Your coloring and shading - masterful. I found myself staring at it, without having a clue how you achieved this beautiful effect.
ReplyDeleteAmazing
Thank you Omer, you are too kind!
Deletewelcome to a newly minted CZT and great job on the challenge. Sharla Hicks
ReplyDeleteThank you Sharla...this is all your fault! I am going to try to come back up for some refreshers in August or September when things settle back down.
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