"Made In The Shade" Ensemble

9 Piece Ensemble
From "Made in the Shade: A Zentangle® Workbook"
By Cris Letourneau

Here are my nine tiles from the shading playground in Cris Letourneau's book entitled "Made In The Shade: A Zentangle® Workbook". It's so exciting for me to be included in a book. When Cris first put out her request for unshaded tiles to CZT's I was working on this ensemble. I was a newly minted CZT and had recently returned from Providence Rhode Island. I had agreed to do this ensemble as a swap with fellow classmates. I thought that it might make an interesting subject matter for Cris and so I offered them to her unshaded. . She was quick to accept and keen to use them. I was thrilled. We agreed that I would put up a post of the tiles assembled and shaded. I did not have a blog at that point, nor did I know anything about blogs. It is now a few months later and since then I have learned a few things about blogs, but not much, just enough to get it together for this post. I chose to work at blogging like a zentangle tile, without any real intent of the outcome, but rather to enjoy the process. That was mostly what happened, although Cris was very generous with her knowledge about blogs and some of the techy stuff you need to learn.  I am very grateful to Cris for her acceptance, encouragement and guidance.

At the time that I was working on these tiles, there was a major storm brewing in the east, named Hurricane Sandy. I live on the shore near a large body of water. We were having a wind storm here a couple of days before hurricane Sandy hit the east coast of the US. I get a little nervous when these storms approach. Doing these tiles really helped me to relax while the weather was brewing.

I imagined these two storms colliding, one from the north and one from the south. The storm from the north stirred up the atmosphere (top right) and the storm from the south came in from the ocean. They met and exploded (in the centre of the ensemble) and then calm and order started to resume (left side of ensemble).

When I shaded the tiles I used a couple of different techniques. Sometimes I shaded the space within the string and sometimes I used a light source for direction.

I have sent these tiles off to my fellow CZT, Lisa. You can see her ensemble here. She will gather them all from 9 CZT's and then redistribute them to each of us. Thank you Lisa for all of your hard work with the swap. I look forward to receiving the work of my fellow colleagues.  It will be a memorable ensemble to have, share and show.
I welcome any questions or comments you may have regarding my little piece of Cris's book.
Happy Tangling :))

This is the cover of Cris Letourneau's Book

and below is a link on where you can buy her book.

https://www.createspace.com/4056625

The illustrations below are from Cris's book. She was generous in sharing this image with me to post here. I think it may help if you are looking for my version of the completed tiles. This is the reference from Cris's book.