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| Tangles: Bunzo, Ennies, Moon Pies, Pearlz |
It's a hashtag, too! #prestrungfun. Have a look on Instagram and Zentangle's Mosaic app.
"Pre-strung" means that there are pale, gray lines provided on the paper so you have a string to start with. Zentangle(R) offers many tiles like this.
This project ("challenge"), the brainchild of three CZTs, is based on one of Zentangle's pre-strung zendala tiles, pictured below. I admit, this is not one of my favorite pre-strung strings, but I had two white ones so I thought I'd do two. Why not?
The first two I did were on white tiles. One is at the top of this post. Here's the other.
I tried using the tangle Kahla as another string, wondering what would happen if I tried to overlay two strings.
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| Tangles: Kahla (the overlaid string), Moon Pies, Pearlz, Pepperish, Romanancy, Striping, Tipple, Wud |
I wanted to do more! I hunted, and discovered I had some tan and black tiles with this pre-strung string. The first began with smears of copper ink from a leaky pen; the second was going to be the 'mosaic' border and something else in the middle, but you know how things go!
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| Tangles: Ennies, Pepperish, Printemps, Snail |
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| Tangles: Hmmm... well, it was going to be Seljuk but it ended up being gradations of gray Moonlight pens. |
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| Tangles: Within (the overlaid string) Apacore, Paizel, Pearlz, Pepperish, Seljuk |
Colorful ribbons wanted to play on a white tile.
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| Tangles: Aquafleur and Tipple |
And finally, on a tan tile, sort of paisleys. And more. A lot more.
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| Tangles: Crescent Moon, Ennies, Purk, Soul Star, Thumbprintz, Tipple, Within |
I understand there will be another Pre-Strung Fun event. Hope you can join in!
on the ribbons did you use colored pencil. I am swooning over that one. Ginny
ReplyDeleteIt's mostly colored ink. There's a bit of white pencil for highlights, and some graphite in the thin black lines. I often 'feather' two pen colors together to get a gradation.
DeleteI'm so glad you shared these here as well and could talk us through the process of how they came about. I love that ALL of these spilled from a string that you don't particularly like... imagine if we chose one you did. I can totally relate to that thing where you're working on one and already getting ideas for the next. You'd expect to grow tired of the string but the repetition encourages an evolution.
ReplyDeleteI've got to try myself some Moonlight mosaic too now I know what you used!
Yes, I REALLY like the Moonlight pens! They are highly opaque, so are great for drawing on top of something. You're so right that repetition encourages evolution. That's how many of my "and then some" tiles have come about.
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