Blind Sighted

Tangles used = finery, n'zeppel, purk, shattuck, featherfall, meer, printemps, flux, tipple

That Laura is an incredible woman. This week in her blog she has a video posted. It is from a performance that she gave. She sings like a broadway star. You can find that video and the challenge for this week here on her blog site. 

She encouraged us to let go and just find our Zen. Don't worry about the outcome. So I played along, because she is good with games. You should see the extreme hopscotch her son is playing this week.

I started out with the dots and the border, placed my pencil on the string and closed my eyes to draw this blind string. You can sort of see where I went out of the border. I went with it and tangled those areas too. 

I am taking a colour class with Marie Browning. We are using the Irojiten colour pencils. Rather than think too much about colour I just grabbed 4 pencils from one volume. They are designed to work together. The first tile was scanned before I added the colourless blender from the Tombow markers. Here is the second tile after the blending. Can you see the difference?

Earth Day/Amanda Day

Tangles used = Agua, Mist, Dansk. and a variation of  Sun Ray

It would be so great if every day was Earth Day. It was sunny but cold here in my part of the world. I made a point of doing something extra for the planet today. I gave my composter a stir to get it ready for another year. There is lots of nice black gold in there, it's ready, but still a little bit frozen.  

The Diva has asked us to do a tile for Earth Day. Her son affectionally calls this Day Amanda Day.

I think it's so cute that he has given the planet a name. Laura is teasing us to say that she may just let us hear her sing. That would be grand. 

You can see the challenge and others work here. Thanks Laura for all that you do to inspire me. 

I have signed up for Marie Brownings class which started last Thursday. I plan to learn to use the Irojiten pencils and the Tombow Markers. I have done a couple of assignments and learned a bunch about what not to do and a little bit of what to do. I learn by doing. You will see some of my learning here in my happy tangling space. The image below was part of the first lesson. It uses the Dual Brush Markers. I'll use it as a greeting card. 

Be inspired by stars, whatever that means to you.

Tangles used = Auraknot, spiteria, ahh

When I look at the night sky I think of those that have left us here on this earth. I imagine that each time we loose someone a new star shines.  Sometimes I just want to gather them all up and hang on tight. 

Tangles used = variation of cadent, printemps, crescent moon

This ones for you Frankie. 

The Diva has inspired me again. Thank you Laura. Have a peek at her blog post here to see the challenge and all of the beautiful tangler's entries that she inspires. Hmm... Tangler's is that what we are?

Tuxedo Challenge #112

Tangles used: Tuxedo, In a pod, Bunzo, Camelia, Palrevo

This weeks challenge from the Diva was to use a tangle called "Tuxedo"created by the very talented Ledenzer. You can find the "steps outs" for her tangle here and the Diva's challenge here.  This is a very detailed tangle that required good concentration. I can see that with some practice it could be very fun to add tangleations. Thank you Laura for the challenge and Lee Ann for the tangle.