Weekly Challenge #263: Globular Grid

It has been a long time since I have posted on this blog. In that time I have not had a lot of time to myself to tangle. With three boys, a change of direction career wise and a husband at sea, I have my work cut out for me. My boys are all growing up so fast.

When I walked through town today I popped into the art shop and treated myself to a new little sketchbook and have blown the dust off my Rotring pens and decided to see what the Diva Challenge was this week.

I started by drawing around my mug and marked out the grid. I decided that I was going to do a monotangle, something I didn't need to think too much about to get myself back into the swing of tangling. I had a quick flick through my old sketchbooks and chose "Hypnotic". I used the pens to draw the tangle. The grid made me think of a globe so I chose to use blues and greens and coloured in the string using my Inktense pencils (dry). Although I am pleased with the tile I think I should have kept the colour a little more subtle as I have lost some of the definition in the tangle.

Here is the tile before I added colour

And here is the finished tile.

Thank you for looking at my tile.

Weekly Challenge #193 : TriTangle : Trio, Huggins, & Xyp (THX)

It has been a while since I've done much tangling. James has been home on leave and six weeks ago we welcomed our new arrival, Jack. He was born on 27th September, weighing in at 7lbs 5oz.

He has completed our family, we now have three boys to keep us on our toes. This does mean I don't have a lot of time myself.

I managed to juggle feeding Jack with having a go at this weeks Diva Challenge. I loved the trio tangle which I had never tried before but will certainly be having another go at. I used my Rotring pens and decided to add a bit of colour. Trio reminded me of hearts so I decided to use blue as I have a houseful of boys. 

Weekly Challenge #174: Superimposing Strings

Today's challenge was to superimpose strings. I decided to use strings with straight lines and used number 8 and number 5 from the tangle patterns website. I also decided to challenge myself to use only tangles that I had never used before as I decided it was time I tried a few new oneself extend my repertoire so I used Knyt, leaflet, land girlz, lotus pods, oke, hypnotic, pippin and paushalov.

I also decided to use colour this week and the leafy patterns of leaflet and oke inspired me to use a limited colour scheme of greens and browns.

Weekly Challenge #173: Redux, Remix, Revisit Your Comfort Tangle

In this weeks challenge we were asked to rework an old favourite tangle. My all time favourite is mooka but as I'd used this tangle in last weeks challenge I decided to go for one I hadn't used for ages, Pystyl. When I first discovered this tangle I used it a lot but haven't revisited it for quite some time.

When I usually tangle I stick to my old faithful isograph pens as I like the fine, precise nature of them. I decided to use a coule of different pens today, a silver marker and a brush tipped felt pen along with my isograph pens. Because of the nature of the pens I did the Pystyl tangle in different sizes.

After posting my tile yesterday I got a comment from Bonnie about shaking it up using colour so I took up the challenge and got out my coloured pencils. Here you are, a coloured Pystyl. I really enjoyed doing this one, more so than the one I did yesterday. 

Weekly Challenge #172: Duotangle - Auraknot vs Mooka

I'm back! A lot has happened since my last post which was back in August, the main thing is that I am 24 weeks pregnant with our third child. We don't know what we are having so will find out when he or she arrives some time around the beginning of October. Juggling being pregnant with two lively boys aged 2 and 4, a husband on deployment since February and work hasn't left me with much me time.  I've decided it is time I got my pens back out and have a go at the tangle challenge again and make a bit of down time for myself.

Here is my attempt at this weeks challenge. Mooka is probably my favourite tangle and Auraknot is one I've never quite got to grips with so this was an interesting challenge for me. I used my isograph pens (having covered myself in ink to clean them out and get them working again!) and the sage and ivy graphitint pencils.

I've just added this one, a mono tangle using just mooka.

Weekly challenge #131: "Monotangle Dex-teria"

Here is my attempt at the monotangle. I usually don't like monotangles, I enjoy combining different tangles but I did find this one more enjoyable. I used the TanglePattern string 057. I ended up getting a bit frustrated with my pens as since I haven't used them for a while they had dried up a bit so needed a bit of TLC to get them running properly. One of them is going to need some serious cleaning out as I couldn't get it going again.

Weekly Challenge #122: "Grid (un)locked"

I've made time for another go at the Diva Weekly Challenge. It's been a hectic week at work so making time to do a bit of Zentangle has a really helped me relax this evening.

The challenge this week was based on grids. I really liked it as it meant I didn't have to over think it and could just concentrate on the repetition. I think I need to play around with the grids a bit more. I used 2J  and rotated it to form circles.