Oh my, that's a verse! :
I love the striking contrast
of black and white,
But I also love colors,
preferably bright.
This blue/green mandala was done on a blank Zendala tile. I used the apple corer gadget and some small circles as a templates. You can read a little more about the apple corer gadget here.
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| Tangles: Black Pearlz (in green!), Drupe, Shing, Tipple, stripes with highlights, and triangles |
This fuchsia mandala was done on a pre-strung Zendala tile from Zentangle. It turned out particularly well I think!
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| Tangles: Black Pearlz, Copada, O-bob, Phuds, Tipple |
The six divisions of one of the Zendala tiles made me think of a snowflake. I used blue inks, and tangles that were either divided in six sections and/or very angular. I put a pale blue wash on at the beginning. Now I'm not sure it was a good idea; the 'snowflake' would stand out better if it were white.
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| Tangles: Afterglo, Aura, Rain, Wunderwall and stripes with highlights. |
OK, I have to ask you what you use for coloring? Colored pens and a wash? Pencils? Watercolor?
ReplyDelete(I've been following you for a year now - I first "discovered" you during 30 days of creativity 2011 - Love your work!)
Zentangle uses Sakura micron pens, 01 size, in black. So I just shifted to color. Sakura makes 01 pens in about 8 colors. You can get more colors in 05 size. (Other good archival brands are Faber-Castell's Pitt artists' pens and Zig, although I don't know about colors in those.)
DeleteI have a set of Derwent watersoluable colored pencils which I occasionally use to lay a wash down. I always do this first for some reason. Sometime I must try adding washes after I do the ink tangles. Sometimes I also use an acrylic wash.
For the shading I use Prismacolor pencils, or occasionally Prismacolor's Veithin pencils - they're a harder lead and good on some papers.
Hope this helps! :)
Sorry, that should have been VERITHIN pencils.
DeleteGorgeous, as usual. I keep meaning to make my Zendalas in color, but I like them so much in black and white that I haven't yet. It never occurred to me to do one monochromatic. Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteI find monochromatic a really easy shift from black (and white), and by now I've pretty much sorted out which colored pencils work with which pens. Give it a go!
DeleteI too, was skeptical of color in Zentangles! But saw some awesome pieces and decided to give it a try. I like it almost as much as blk/wh, but blk/wh is my all time favorite to do!!!
Deletewow! These are stunning!
ReplyDeletethese all turned out great! i love color :). i find your first tile particularly interesting - some new patterns for me - and i really like the blue/green color play!
ReplyDeleteReally beautiful. It's hard to choose, but I think the red one is my favorite.
ReplyDeleteLove these!! I tried to click on the link for the apple corer gadget but it says I don't have permission?
ReplyDeleteThanks for alerting me Suzanne! I believe I've corrected it now. (I think the links went to my personal, editable version of the page rather than the public one.)
DeleteMargaret your work is so inspirational! I have been staring at my brand new tin of Mandala tiles for a month now and haven't had the nerve to try it - today is the day!
ReplyDeleteI swear every time I visit your blog, I see more and more beautiful images. You are such an inspiration! Thanks for sharing your lovely work.
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