Tripping on Tripoli

There's a wonderful new tangle in Zentangle land: Tripoli. You can see how-to drawit, as well as some variations, in the Zentangle newsletter. It's a lovely and versatile pattern. The Diva's Zentangle challenge this week is to use Tripoli. Yay! We all wanted to anyway!

This may be the first weekly challenge when I haven't posted classic, black on white, zentangle tiles. I have a number of projects in the works, so I decided to try Tripoli in some of them. In my first few attempts I was making the triangles too small, which meant that I couldn't put in the details I had intended. I learned.

One on-going project is to come up with nine themed tiles and frame them together. This one will fit in the heart theme. All these tiles will be black and red on white. Tripoli is in both the black and the red.

Tangles: TRIPOLI (2 variations), Florez, Munchin, Strircles, Striping, Up and Across

I've also been producing a lot of small (6"x4") illuminated letters for two events later this summer. Here's one using Tripoli. It's black ink on some parchement-y looking matboard.

Tangles: TRIPOLI, Chartz, Drupe, Flux, Hollibaugh, Miranda, Tipple, Up and Across