String Theory

I'm super late on this one... A last minute posting even though my tile has been ready for a few days now!

This week Laura challenged us to use TanglePatterns string 003 for our tiles. I like these challenges as it's fun to see the huge differences in everyone's finished tiles!

These are the tangles I used: Pia, Shattuck, Bunzo, Hekzee, Postl, Beelight & Florz.

Happy tangling...
Claire

Sunflower Fun

Back in October 2011, Laura invited Penny to set the challenge for the week.

Penny wrote “In Republic of South Africa, on 12 October we have Bandana Day, which is run by the Sunflower Fund.  This is an organization founded in 1999 in support of the SA Bone Marrow Registry for people suffering from leukaemia. Every year our local retailer (Pick n Pay) sells Sunflower bandanas and the proceeds go towards the Sunflower Fund...everyone wears a bandana, somehow, somewhere on this day!”

So the challenge was set – to use the Sunflower Fund logo as inspiration for the tile.

I’m currently facing challenges with my laptop, so wasn’t able to use the actual logo. Instead I drew my own sunflower, split it into sections and tangled in each section.

I used a lot of tangles - Florz, Wud, Knightsbridge, Lotus Pods, Bunzo, Paradox, Striping, CO2, Gingham, Koryl, Zedbra, Shattuck, Socc, Sand Swirl, Hurly Burly, Paisal, Prestwood, Tripoli, Spinners and Tipple... Woo hoo!

So here it is:

Happy tangling...
Claire

Tile on Tile

Back in August 2011, Laura invited Margaret Bremner, the Enthusiastic Artist, to set this challenge.

The idea is to leave a generous border when plotting your four corner points, so as to create a tile within a tile.

Here's my string:

And here's my tile:

Unshaded

Tile on Tile
Tangles: Cadent; Shattuck; Warble
Bales; Purk; Florz; Fescu

Up Close

I had to break out my 005 Micron to help get the needed detail on the little tile.

Happy tangling...
Claire

Zendala Dare 29

A big shout out to Erin who managed to get the dare up even though she's feeling under the weather... Hope you feel better soon!

The template this week is a really nice one:

Dare 29

I got stuck a little along the way... thinking too much!
I chose to use Florz again, like in my tile for the weekly Diva challenge, inspired by this Zentangle post from Maria earlier in the week.

So here she is - unshaded:

Tangles: Betweed, Florz, Sparkool, Scallops, Paradox 

 Shaded:

 Up close and personal:

I had great fun with this! How did you get on???

Happy tangling...
Claire

Stripes 2

Stripes! I love it. Another challenge from the String Theory series, Laura's challenge this week is to use Stripes as our string. It's called Stripes 2 because this one has been done before, back in May 2011.

So I started by drawing a few diagonal stripes and realised again that it was symmetrical (the old Mathematician brain at work!), so I chose to fill it symmetrically too.

Stripes 2
Tangles: Shattuck (variation), Nzeppel, Knase, Florz

 I started from the centre and worked my way out and when I got to the corners, I wasn't sure what to do. Then I remembered the wonderful post I had read earlier in the day, from Maria over at the Zentangle Blog - Get Flord! - so Florz it was...


And I thought I'd show you my old version too. I drew this earlier this year, and posted it in September, as my response to the original stripes challenge. I'm slowly working my way through the challenges. The photo's not great, and you can see my tangling has come a long way too!!!

Stripes 1 - Challenge 24

An just in case you've missed some of my recent Zentangles, here's a quick round-up - three of which are old Diva challenges (I'm playing catch-up!):

Clockwise from top left: OoF; Mi2; Brayd; Letters

Happy tangling...
Claire