Ebony and Ivory

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Tangles used = Lanie, Puf, Fyfe, Palrevo, Camelia, Sindoo

This weeks Challenge from The Diva was to use equal parts white and black on your tile. Laura mentions in her post that she does not have any luck with any of the white pens. I am not pleased with them either. I chose to use high contrast tangles. After browsing the tangle patterns website for way too long, I discovered that there is a section in the site that categorizes grid based patterns. It is on the left hand side, in the tags. That was helpful. 

Laura's challenge can be found here. The Zentangle post that inspired her challenge can be found here. 

I tried one with glue resist, but that just turned out grey. I have not shaded this tile as then it would include grey.  I think I will go back and do that, later though, as I am off to the plant sale at the Hospital this morning. There are so many wonderful plants from other peoples gardens. Nice big plants with lots of history. My favourite kind. 

Kuke

Tangles used + Kuke, Jemz, Black Pearls

Katy Abbott created a lovely tangle inspired by a a slice of cucumber she found on her kitchen floor. Patterns are all around us. You can read about her discovery here. The Diva's challenge this week was to use that tangle in a tile which you can read about here. 

I have been nicely busy the past couple of weeks week with outdoor chores. The weather has improved and so these tasks are more pleasant to do. I love gardening. It has been my passion ever since I had a piece of land to plant. I finally started to weed my three large flower gardens. I am about 3/4 of the way through them. I have removed over 15 large garden bags of yard waste. That is just junk that comes down off the trees and accumulates everywhere. The shore has been cleaned up, the lawn is mowed and the yard sale starts in about 10 minutes. 

I sat down last evening to play with Kuke. It went into my pattern book a few weeks ago. I really like it and plan to play with it more. Here is the tile I created. Margaret Bremner's Jemz is a little bit tricky. I think it requires a very slow and accurate placement of each stroke of the pen. It does remind me of a pattern that was on the kitchen floor in the first apartment I had in Toronto. Since Kuke was discovered on Katy's kitchen floor I chose to use it here. 

I also completed a colour garden from Marie Browning's awesome class. It's very fun and whimsical but not really my own. She showed us how to make these flowers and bugs and helped with composition. Yes,  I drew it and added the colour, and yes I like it. I may even use it as a Birthday card. It's joyful and who doesn't like that in life. The colour is so vibrant, i like these Tombow Markers and the cool stuff Marie is teaching. She is wonderful. 

Which Schway to go?

Tangles used = Schway, 

Here is my tile for the Diva's challenge this week. You can find her challenge here. We were asked to use the new official tangle Schway. I am also taking Marie Browning's on-line class called Time to Tangle with Colour. So I combined the two and came up  with this. I have a little red canoe made of ceramic. I keep a few pens in it. It inspired this tile. 

This is from one of the lessons with Marie. I am really enjoying this class and would highly recommend it to anyone interested learning about adding colour. She is an awesome teacher and artist.