Thursday, January 13, 2011

Starry-Eyed Surprise

This week's zentangle challenge is stellar :-)
It was suggested that we listen to the song "Starry-Eyed Surprise" and do a tile with the theme of stars. I really liked the blind string challenge from last week, and decided to do blind strings for these star tiles. In the first one I did blind star shapes one on top of the other. I like how Carole Ohl's tangle Hurakán looks like a distant galaxy!


In the second I did blind star shapes offset from the others. I seem to have opted for a lot of thin line striping, hatching and cross-hatching, in these.


Once I completed these two, I thought, "Who said a star has to have five points?" So I may try some others with more points.
What will next Monday bring?

18 comments:

  1. Love these stars interpenetrating their engergies!

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  2. Margaret, these both are awesome. I especially like the little circles on the bottom one that look like little rivets fastening one star to another. Your use of Hurican is very cool, and has such a different effect than Maria's use of the same tangle on her star. It is amazing how tangles can be so versatile.

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  3. really fun!!! The way you create layers is stunning!

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  4. Loving the layered effect. I see more star tangles in my future...

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  5. Love them both, great depth on each.

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  6. These are fabulous Margaret! I love all the layers and overlap and I love all of it!!!

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  7. ★★★Star-dusting Whispers of Aloha★★★

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  8. Oh, WOW! Especially love the second one.

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  9. Love the second 'shuffled' stars. Very cool!

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  10. Beautiful stars! And stars can have more (or less!) points then 5. My cookie cutter star has 8 points.

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  11. I love them both! I always know I am in for a treat when I come here!

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  12. Both are fantastic! My favorite is the second one.

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  13. These are both great. Can't choose a favorite.

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  14. I'm impressed at drawing the star shapes with your eyes closed - pretty cool and they turned out lovely - also love the layered look.

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  15. Both wonderful!! Love the shading and the grayscale of the first one!!

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  16. Many thanks!
    Suzanne, I hadn't thought about the shapes showing up so well with my eyes closed. I think perhaps I had enough overlapping shapes in the string that I could pick and choose which lines to use when I started with the pen (and then ignore other lines). In the first tile, you can see how the left line of the top left point doesn't match the line on the other side.

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