Five more Book pages

My Book only has perhaps a dozen pages left in it. I haven't been in a hurry to fill it, wanting it to add something new only when I felt inspired. These are the most recent additions.

I was rather taken with two tangles, Salt (the hexagons) from Franciose Lip and Amazing Spider (in the background) from Hennie Brouwer. 

Two of the recent project packs from Zentangle had flower-like results, which I enjoyed reproducing in my Book.

I was charmed by Cherryl Moote's tangle Morrisseau. Some of the elements here are collaged, some are drawn on the page.

I've occasionally worked with found text, so I did that on one page. I tore two pages from the same book and glued them into my larger book, then hunted and tangled.

I've been loving the stains left by my husband's hibiscus tea bags: pinks, purples, blues, grays, browns, ochres... Unfortunately, the paper in this book is not as friendly towards them as is the Tiepolo paper of the Zentangle tiles. This page ended up with only grays, and rather wrinkly. I also tried using some stencils with the teabags.

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For previous Book pages, check these posts:

1. How it began
2. Next steps
3. Inserting an eco-dyed paper
4. Back cover, an alphabet, gems and paisley
5. Hexagons
6. Celtic-style tangles, and W2
7. Frontispiece and photos of my grandmother
8. Space junk
9. A sunflower, and the flower of life
10. Knightsbridge and magic squares
11. More space junk
12. For now - A phrase I hated, now dear to my heart
13. Mongolian roofs
14. Cubine and Fassett
15. Nautilus
16. Notanical - combining Notan and botanical imagery
17. An 'oops' page
18. Inspired by Project Pack 7
19. Four more pages: twisted striping, and borders
20. Three more pages: leaves, tea, and spirals
21. A month of joy
22. A few more pages in my marvelous book: a dragon, neurographic drawing, and BrixBox/Cantire

A few more pages in my marvelous Book

I've been working in this book for quite some time, adding a page now and then whenever I'm inspired.

I was enchanted by results I'd seen of Eni Oken's Dragons class. I purchased it, tried a few smaller pieces, and some time later did this drawing. Great fun!

Neurographic drawing caught my fancy, being a random-looking type of pen-and-ink drawing. I watched a video lesson by a certified neurographic drawing instructor and followed along. Of course, at some point I had to incorporate Zentangle patterns! I'd done this on a sheet of paper so I trimmed it slightly and glued it onto the front endpaper, bordered with washi tape.

The offset grid squares pattern of Brix Box or Reticulous is quite fascinating. I experimented to see what could be done with triangles and ended up calling this new tangle Cantire. This page in my Book combines both the square tangle and the triangular one.

For previous Book pages, check these posts:

1. How it began
2. Next steps
3. Inserting an eco-dyed paper
4. Back cover, an alphabet, gems and paisley
5. Hexagons
6. Celtic-style tangles, and W2
7. Frontispiece and photos of my grandmother
8. Space junk
9. A sunflower, and the flower of life
10. Knightsbridge and magic squares
11. More space junk
12. For now
13. Mongolian roofs
14. Cubine and Fassett
15. Nautilus
16. Notanical
17. An 'oops' page
18. Inspired by Project Pack 7
19. Four more pages: twisted striping, and borders
20. Three more pages: leaves, tea, and spirals
21. A month of joy

Cantire - a new tangle!

Recently on Facebook's Square One Zentangle group, the tangle Reticulous (from Heidi Kay, CZT) was the focus. It appeared earlier as BrixBox (from Anneke van Dam, CZT). They have slightly different step-outs and you many find one easier to work with than the other. It's a wonderful vessel tangle using an offset square grid. 

I wondered if it could be done using triangles. So I tried, and it can, but the process is a little different.

Here's a tile with BrixBox/Reticulous, and Cantire together. (Pronounce it can-tire not can-teer. I'll explain later.)

These are the step-outs for Cantire.

Some things to note:

• These are equilateral (equiangular) triangles - to the best of your ability! 😉
• As with BrixBox/Reticulous, the small shape is one quarter the size of the large shape.
• Unlike BrixBox/Reticulous, two shapes are needed on each side of the large shape.
• Something will go haywire. Trust me. It doesn't mean you're a bad person. It's just an opportunity.
  
• You can use any of the marvelous fills for Tripoli to embellish your triangles.

I have an oxalis plant near my desk and drawing the leaves made an interesting triangle string. Then I fitted Cantire around it.

Why Cantire?  I'd received a couple of very good suggestions for a name, but somehow they didn't quite click. I'd already used Trifle for another triangle-based tangle. Then suddenly I thought of Canadian Tire, an iconic hardware and auto supplies store in Canada. Its logo is a red triangle. Cantire it is!

One more tile for good measure, on gray paper stained with a hibiscus teabag. I used Moonlight pens and color pencils.

For another tangle with an iconic Canadian theme, check out Double Double.

BTW: It's getting harder and harder to keep track of tangles and names. If this pattern has been presented elsewhere, or if the name has been used already, please let me know!

Hexes in my Book

In ongoing decluttering I found a small, square sketchbook from the two years I lived in China. I wasn't interested in keeping most of it but there was a page investigating triangles and hexagons. It's really amazing the variety of stars, boxes, snowflakes, cubes, diamonds, chevrons, tunnels and more that can be achieved with these simple repeating shapes. I glued the page into my Book and expanded onto the sides.

Opposite that page seemed perfect for another go at CZT Cherryl Moote's tangle Hexonu, a much more random (and zen!) version of hexagons. Done large, they can be filled with other tangles.

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

Pi Day tiles

March 14 is World Pi Day, pi being 3.14 andonandonandon...
So in honor of this occasion, I present six varieties of pie, on 3Z tiles.
Bon appétit!

Clockwise from the top:

Pumpkin pie with a dollop of whipped cream - Ingredients: rounded Ing, Dansk, Tidings, and Perfs with a copper dusting of cinnamon. Served on a white tile.

Pecan pie - Ingredients: Tripoli and Fugu. Served on a tan tile.

Raspberry pie - Ingredients: Tri-dots, Prestwood, W2 and Tipple. Served on a tan tile.

Blueberry pie - Ingredients: Printemps, Shattuck, Tipple with some spirals and other additives. Served on a white tile.
Such a lovely color; I couldn't bear to put a top crust on. Originally I was going to use Pokeroot, but it's a tangle a don't do very well, and besides, who wants little stems in their pie?

Lemon Meringue pie - Ingredients: Knightsbridge, Prestwood variation, Meringue (what else?!) and Tipple. Served on a white tile.

Tourtière (Québecois meat pie. Delicious!) - Ingredients: Knightsbridge, Puffle, Y-Not and Tipple.
Served on a tan tile.

So, when is World Pizza Day?

Orbs-la-dee

The DivaCZT's challenge this week is the tangle Orbs-la-dee from Anneke van Dam. It's a tangle I've used before but had sort of forgotten about. I did three tiles in the crunch time before we leave on vacation for two weeks (to warmer climes, hurray!).

I had started a tile with my new tangle Trifle and finished it with Orbs-la-dee. In this case I used that tangle to fill a zigzag.

Tangles: Beadlines, Orbs-la-dee, Rain, Trifle

This 3Z tile was going to be Orbs-la-dee, but it all got pushed together!

Tangles: not Orbs-la-dee and Tipple

Finally, I did a blind, star-shaped string on a Renaissance tile. I filled the star with this week's challenge tangle, part of the background with gold Printemps, and the rest of the background with black-and-white, always very effective on the tan paper.

Tangles; Orbs-la-dee, Printemps, and Munchin-type stripes

TRIFLE - a new tangle!

I call this Trifle because it's a 'triangle fill' (tri-fill). At first I just thought of it as a way to fill a space with triangles, but then, what is a tangle if not a way to fill a space with lines and shapes?

Trifle can fit in any shape of space you have. I think the trickiest part is to get the triangles facing more or less the same direction throughout the space.

Looking at the space you want to fill, determine where you can place one very large triangle so each point touches a side. Draw it. Then, in the remaining spaces, again determine where you can place one very large triangle. They will be smaller than that first triangle. Simply continue like this until you have filled the space with ever smaller triangles. Fill the background black.

Easy peasy!

Here's Trifle with some other triangular tangles.

Tangles: Beadlines, Ing, Knase, Trifle, Tripoli

In the tile below, the two largest triangles of Trifle were too weak with only a thin line on the lower right sides, so I turned the lines into Rain, and added even a little more to the top one. I think this holds the pattern in better.

Tangles: Beadlines, Pearlz, Rain, Tipple, Trifle

I wanted to try Trifle on a 3Z tile, and chose one that wasn't already divided into triangles. The large white spaces in the corners looked too empty so I added a Fassett in each.

Tangles: Fassett, Trifle

Enjoy!

BTW: It's getting harder and harder to keep track of tangles and names. If this pattern has been presented elsewhere, or if the name has been used already, please let me know!