Miasma Tangleation

A couple of weeks ago I found Daniel Lamothe's blog. When tangling, Daniel mainly used tangle patterns as they were originally designed. So he has set about challenging himself to explore  tangleations on a different pattern each week to expand his Zentangle skills. Although Daniel set this challenge for himself, he has also set up the linky machine so anyone else who wants to join this excellent way to expand your Zentangle skills can do so.

As yet, Daniel has not had any other people join him with his explorations, so I decided to complete this weeks focus pattern 'miasma', and start to get the word out there about this fantastic opportunity.

miasma tangleations

If you think this is a great way to explore tangleations and expand your Zentangle skills, why not join Daniel by adding your explorations of the focus pattern to his blog & share with other Zentangle enthusiasts.

Good on you Daniel for challenging yourself to explore more fun you can have with Zentangle.

N.B. - There are many different challenges, dares, focus activities other Zentangle enthusiasts also hold. So, I have now added a specific page with links to the ones I know about, that you may also like to visit. All you need to do is click on the 'Dare, Challenge &/or focus' tab at the top of my blog.

An Audio Meditation

Since participating in an audio meditation with Molly Hollibaugh (CZT) at a Zentangle seminar, Holly at Ha Designs became inspired to make a Zentangle audio meditation and graciously wanted to share it with the Zentangle community.

Holly's soft gentle voice and simple, easy to follow instructions were pleasant to listen to while tangling.

This is the Bijou tile I completed following Holly's Zentangle audio meditation.

 

I certainly hope Holly produces more of these audio meditations.

Many thanks Holly.

 

NEW TANGLE PATTERN - Arcoquatro

So now, that you have been introduced to 'arcodos' and 'arcotres' , today I am introducing 'Arcocuatro'.

When naming this pattern I kept with the Spanish theme. 'Arco' meaning 'arcs' and 'cuatro' meaning four, as this pattern uses four arcs, and is similar to the previous two patterns. 

For Arcocuatro you use the same grid and the first two steps are also the same as in the previous two patterns. You can also draw the arcs by turning your tile 90 degrees

Here are the step outs for Arcocuatro for your exploration and creativity.

Arcocuatro used as a border

Here is a tile with a number of variations.

Have fun with this.

Weekly Challenge #200: "Bi-Zen-Tennial Celebration!"

Hello All,

Laura, better known as 'The Diva', has announced her 200th Diva Challenge this week. Congratulations to Laura for her time & wonderful challenges. Making 200 is a major event.

As her challenge this week, Laura invited us to create a tile using our favourite tangle pattern and adding the number 200 somewhere on it. This is her 'Bi-Zen-Tennial' challenge. I love the name and you can read about how the word 'Bi-Zen-Tennial' came about on her blog.

Nipa is one of my favourite tangle patterns so I used it for this challenge.

This is one variation of nipa I have not tried before and I like the way it turned out. Must do this again sometime.

You can see more entries in the 'Bi-Zen-Tennial' challenge here. If you haven't tried a challenge yet, give it a go. They are so much fun!

NEW TANGLE PATTERN - ARCODOS

Welcome to 2015!

I hope everyone enjoyed a festive Christmas and a fun New Years Eve. Here's looking to a great 2015 for everyone.

Over the Christmas & New Year break I have been playing with a new pattern and its many variations.

So, to start off the New Year, I thought I would introduce you to 'arcodos'.

Arcodos is a grid based pattern using orbs and arcs. It was named arcodos as it uses 2 arcs. 'Arco' means 'arc' in Spanish and 'dos' is the number two. I chose spanish because I am slowly learning to speak spanish & now I know two new words.

So here is the step-out and a tile using arcodos.

Arcodos is a pattern which can be varied to create many tangleations.

In this next tile you can see I used arcodos in free form.

I hope you enjoy using arcodos when tangling.
I would love to see what you can do with arcodos also.
Feel free to send me an email or a link to your tile.

Cheers for now.

Weekly Challenge #168 Tangleation Nation: Rain

Hi Everyone,

It's been a while since I added a post here. I have been experiencing numerous technical issues, which are still not completely resolved, but I won't bore you with them.

This week the 'Diva' challenged us to create a tangleation using the pattern 'rain'. In the glossary of terms on the Zentangle web site, a tangleation is defined as "a variation of a tangle by itself or in combination with one or more tangles".

"Rain" is one of my favourite patterns and this is my tile.

Enjoy your week. Happy tangling!
Cheers