Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Aloha tangle and D-1 fragment

Two Diva challenges in this post!

First, Suzanne Fluhr's challenge to use her tangle Aloha, and then Marguerite Samama's challenge to have fun with Zentangle's D-1 fragment.

ALOHA is a leafy tangle that's very graphic and bold. Step-outs can be found here.

On the first tile I added a gold crescent moon with some ochre pencil for a bit of shading, and used an Aloha-like fill in the Paisley Boa sections.
Tangles: Aloha, Paisley Boa, Paradox, Printemps, Tipple
I had a tan tile with a blossom-like string, five petals and a center. That's rather lost at this point! I didn't realize until I was 'finished' that the pink and orange inks would look so similar on the tan paper so I outlined the whole 'flower' and added a 'stem'.
Tangles: Aloha, Pixioze, Printemps
By my third go at it I was deciding that Aloha looks best on its own! Here's the beginning of my third tile, and what I added next, which I didn't really like much.
I eliminated the white around Aloha with a gray brush pen, then used a gray drawing pen for some of the tangles. I'm not unhappy with the result, but I still really like the simplicity of Aloha alone.
Tangles: Aloha, Printemps, plus stripes and spirals
THE D-1 FRAGMENT fits into a  square grid but is really based on triangles. I had a slightly curvy, but still square-ish string so I began with that. I wanted to see what would happen if I continued to subdivide the triangles; that's at the bottom.
Tangles: Crescent Moon singles, Pearlz, Zewm
I got caught up in the triangles and tried this fragment on a couple of pre-strung 3Z tiles. The pictures show the string I began with, and the finished drawing.


As I was working with all those angular triangles I was reminded of the tangles Ing and Fassett, so I did an ATC with D-1 and those tangles.
Tangles: Black Pearlz, Crescent Moon, Fassett, Ing

11 comments:

  1. Love them all !
    You are a great inspiration!

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  2. These are all gorgeous! I love how you focus and explore a single pattern in so many cool variations. I aspire to that;-) I especially like what you did with the 3Z's. I received a set of the 6 pre-strung 3Z's as a thank-you in one of my Facebook swap groups and I wasn't sure where to begin...now I have an idea;-) Thank you so much for the inspiration!

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  3. these are all so yummy! I could never choose a favorite from all those Aloha samples, they are all just gorgeous. But you've made your D-1 tiles sparkle...like a night full of stars. Mmmmm!

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  4. Mariët is right, you are an inspiration to me (and a lot of people I think). All are beautiful!

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  5. I adore seeing your explorations of tangles. Your art is ALWAYS so beautiful and inspiring!

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  6. Absolutely gorgeous all! Very inspiring post!

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  7. Each piece is very pretty in its own way. I do love the 3Z tiles a lot. It gives a lovely faceted look.

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  8. Whow! This post of yours is so rich and inspiring! Thank´s for sharing!

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  9. Such fresh wonderful designs. I'm smiling :)

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    1. Thank you Mahalya. I did the design myself with the Blogger program which has a lot of options, and you can also change things according to your own design preferences.

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