Wednesday, April 13, 2011

15 (minutes) x 4

Back to basics! When Maria Thomas and Rick Roberts designed Zentangle one of the criteria was that a tile could be completed in 15-20 minutes. No piles of unfinished projects gathering dust in the corner. Instead, a stack of lovely miniature masterpieces. The Diva's challenge this week - "15 Minutes of Fame" - is to do just that: complete a tile in 15 minutes.

Andy Warhol had an art exhibition in Sweden in 1968. In the exhibit catalog he is quoted as saying, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." Thus was born one of the iconic statements of our times.

I know I spend longer than 15 minutes on a tile. I've started telling my students 15-30 minutes. This challenge would be interesting!

Once I got rolling it was rather invigorating. I felt like a writer at one of those weekend novel-writing contests, just blasting away, getting something down on the paper, not thinking too much about what was going on the paper.

I intended to do a couple of tiles. In the end, I did four over an hour or so. I noticed that I followed my intuition more and just went with whatever occurred to me as I was drawing. In between tiles, I found myself shaking out my hands and arms like a sprinter before a race!

Here are my four tiles, in order of creation. What amazes me is how different they all are!

There were two whole sections on the left that I didn't even get to. I shaded it instead. And the center of the coil didn't quite get finished. If I hadn't said that you probably wouldn't even have noticed. :-)

I began with a Brush pen in hopes of covering slightly more ground, more quickly!

The dots just happened. I was thinking of something else. The fact that a few sections were better left blank certainly helped with the time constraints!

I do like this one! It reminds me of a Barbara Hepworth sculpture and looks just as interesting upside down. (I have an image of everyone getting up and twisting their necks to see it!) I used a 08 pen for the heavy black areas.

8 comments:

  1. LOL - great work and yes, you DID have me twisting to check out the last one from a different angle!

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  2. The third one... there's an apple in there - yep, definitely an apple. And yes - I twisted around for the fourth. I love *all* of them! but the fourth is my favourite. (And thank you for reminding me of the origin of the 15 minutes of fame saying.... I should've taken a minute or three to look it up [yep, I'm getting the irony! LOL]. Great tiles, Margaret!

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  3. I'm impressed. You've inspired me to try again. BTW - my verification word was "hurri." How weird is that???

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  4. what an awesome job you did! i have to admit i'm quite intimidated by this challenge as i dither and dawdle over patterns when i tangle.

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  5. I like them all. I think it's a great way to remind myself that white spaces can be very interesting. Hope to find the time to do one myself (yes, even 15 minutes...) LOL

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  6. All of them are really nice. I love the last one and I did twist my neck around to look at it upside down-LOL!

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  7. Love the build up and drama of reaching the last one which is my favourite!

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  8. Beautiful. I like the boldness of the design.Seems you really knew what you were going to draw.that is where real artistic talent shows up. Mine was so hesitating and sketchy.

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