Diva Challenge #275 - "Guest Post: Give Peace a Chance - Suzanne Fluhr, CZT

Suzanne Fluhr is standing in for the Diva this week and has set this week's challenge as follows:  "I'd like you to dedicate yourselves to expressing "Give Peace a Chance" through art, using Zentangle and Zentangle Inspired Art techniques."

Immediately when I read this on Monday, I started out and created a tile using peace as a theme.  Here is what it looks like:

I was not real pleased with it and held off posting it hoping I would create a new one.  Well, I do not think it will happen before the end of the challenge so I decided to go ahead and post this one.

I used a black Sharpie medium point pen and a black Micron 01 pen to draw Crescent Moon and Bambooz patterns.  

I messed up on the peace sign and intended to draw it larger but tried to salvage it with the Bambooz accents.  Here is a close-up photo:

I kept telling myself that there are no mistakes in Zentangle and it was meant to be . . . I still believe the process is "one stroke at a time."  Sometimes my strokes just do not go as planned.

Oh well, there is always next week . . . .

Diva Challenge #274 - "My Country 'Tis of Thee"

The Diva Challenge for this week is to show your country's colors by creating a tile inspired by the country where you live.  Well, I live in the good ole' USA, so I used red, white, and blue.  I drew Squid and Tipple.  Here is what it looks like:

I used Gelly roll pens for the red Tipple in the background, the blue Isochor on the Squid, and the white in the middle of the Squid.  I used a black fine point Sharpie to outline the middle of the Squid.  The tile is a 3 inch coaster I ordered from Amazon.

As always, comments and criticisms are appreciated.

Diva Challenge #273 - "Tangle Remix"

The Diva's Challenge this week is "to go back into your stash and find a tile that you could spruce up or remix and give it a shiny fresh coat of Pigma Micron!"

I looked back into my stash and came up with a bookmark (hence the hole in the upper left where I had a ribbon) I originally made on July 6, 2015.  I used a fine point Sharpie to draw Tipple in the four corners and Tizzy in the middle.    Here is what it looked like:

After I added some larger Tipple and enhanced the Tizzy with a medium point Sharpie, I added Florz with a fine point Sharpie and a Micron 01 to the background. Here is the final product:

No shading involved.  I really must start doing that -- no excuse, except I am chicken!!

As always, comments and criticisms are welcome.

Diva's Challenge - #272 - "What's Black and White and Read All Over?"

This week's challenge was to create a Zentangle tile with the standard black and white and add some red to it.

This past week I ran across a favorite quote (also known as "Indra's Net").  It reads as follows:

"There is an endless net of threads throughout the universe. The horizontal threads are in space. The vertical threads are in time. At every crossing of the threads, there is an individual, and every individual is a crystal bead. And every crystal bead reflects not only the light from every other crystal in the net, but also every other reflection throughout the entire universe."

                                              --Rig Veda

Throughout the week, this quote has been on my mind - how the actions of each person affects the other and how what one person sets in motion affects everything.  I decided to create a Zentangle tile version of it using Florz.  Here is what it looks like:

As always, comments and criticisms are much appreciated.  Hope you have had a happy week.

Send some goodness out in the universe this coming week!!

Diva Challenge - "UMT - Crux by Henrike Bratz

This week's Diva Challenge is to use "Crux" in a challenge  I used "Crux" in the background along with "Tore-Up" and "Zonked."  This was a first time for me to draw all three of these patterns.  I used fine-point and medium-point Sharpies.  I was not real pleased with the way the shading turned out, but finally had to call it quits.  I added and took away and added and took away, and then it started to be a real mess.  

As always, comments and criticisms are appreciated.

Diva Challenge #265: "Stripes"

This week's Diva Challenge is to draw stripes. I decided to do some wavy stripes.  My creation consists of (from the top down) Sunz, Andu, Modern Nipa, Riverstones, and Aim with Tipple scattered throughout the tile.  I used medium and fine point Sharpie black pens.

As always, comments and criticisms are welcome.

Diva Challenge #264 - "String Theory: String into Spring"

For my "String into Spring," I used a black tile with a white Gelly Roll 08 pen.  I drew Paradox, Cadent, Tipple, and a little bit of auras around the Tipple.

Comments and criticisms are always welcome.

The Diva Challenge #263: "Globular Grid"

The Diva announced the Weekly Challenge #263 as follows:

"This week's challenge a grid based challenge, with a bit of a twist.  

The challenge is create your grid on a circle and make it globular. Here's how to do it!

I drew a light string onto a blank renaissance zendala tile, then i made two parenthesis type lines ( ) down the centre of the tile. 

From there, i just added more parenthesis lines, meeting at the tops and bottoms.  

then i turned my tile 90 degrees and did the same.

Once your grid is complete, tangle away!!"

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I used a round tile (actually a coaster) from some I had purchased a couple of months ago. The surface is not as smooth as I would like and they do suck up the ink like crazy, but otherwise, they work well.  Well, I got a little carried away with drawing the grid and made the squares too small, so it took forever to fill them in with the pattern.  I decided to use Hypnotic which, because I had to use it so many times, and in so small of spaces, was rough on my eyes.  By the time I was finished, I felt as though I could hardly focus them.  It was fun though and it did go rather quickly.

Here is the final result:

A closeup view of the grid is here:

As always, comments and criticisms as welcome!!

That is it for now.