Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Tri-Shapes: AEDM #16 - Boomerangs & Trentwith

A double challenge for me today! First is my own Art Every Day Month effort: to try at least one tangle that's pretty unfamiliar to me. Second is the Diva's weekly challenge number 48, Tri-Shapes. Guest challenger Sue Clark, CZT, suggests using a simple circle, square and triangle, overlapped, for the string on a tile. I found this to be a terrific idea and will probably incorporate it into one of my advanced Zentangle classes.

First, here's my tile for AEDM using unfamiliar tangles. Boomerangs from Teresa Clerc lends itself to a number of variations, several of which are popping into my head whispering, "Try me too!" Terri Greenberg shows her tangle Trentwith with a white background, but I decided to use black to define the edge of the circle. A variation of Daniele O'Brien's Zenplosion on the other side of the circle seemed a nice complement to Trentwith.

Tangles: Emingle, Boomerangs, Trentwith, Zenplosion

Just for good measure, and because I quite enjoyed this Tri-Shape challenge, here are two more tiles I did today. I seem to like to keep the three shapes evident, and used shading to define some of the edges.

Tangles: Chartz, Diamond Panes, Hibred, Jonqal, Keenees, Meer, Tipple
Tangles: Crescent Moon, Munchin, Prestwood, Tripoli


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11 comments:

  1. Fabulous! I like those boomerangs. I too will do more tiles with this type of shape string because i found it an unique kind of challenge. I have been looking at what new tangle you use everyday for new tangle inspiration and have found it enjoyable and, well inspirational. I can not, however get myself to use prestwood... it just says 'uterus' to me and I can't get past that mental image! Thanks for your inspiration this month!

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  2. Haha Eden! Sometimes it looks sausage-y to me. I've done Prestwood with patterns on the "U" shapes (stripes, dots, etc.) and it looks much less like a uterus or a sausage. :-)

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  3. Very nice!!! I love the "empty" space you have left...gives such a nice sense of space and dimension.

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  4. Wow, you have used some really challenging Tangles!! and the way you have used them makes me what to try them too
    Just Lovely!!

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  5. Wow this is beautiful. I have tryed to mad=ke some zentangle for the first time and I like it. But it isn't correct, and I will make more.
    Lovely greet from Holland
    Marja

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  6. Fabulous as always, Margaret! Glad you liked the challenge. I am enjoying seeing all the new patterns you are trying each day. I need to do that more often then I do.

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  7. These are amazing. You never disappoint!

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  8. As always, I love your work - you've got some good white space going on in these and I like your use of the boomerangs in the first one - so graphic.

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  9. LOVE all three! I keep trying to decide which is my favorite...but just can't decide! The shading looks awesome!

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  10. Thanks everyone! This was indeed a fun challenge.

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