Marbled Zentangles!

A photo posted by sarah leigh (@imknottangled) on Oct 10, 2014 at 6:01pm PDT

This week from I am the diva, the challenge was to use the tangle Betweed, which is one of my favorite tangles!  Nice surprise for me.

Also, the paper was created with a friend, S, this past weekend.  It was created using the shaving cream and ink method, and as you can see, it turned out beautifully.  Basically you squirt a bunch of shaving cream onto a plate and drop a bunch of ink drops onto the shaving cream.  Then, you stir the shaving cream, just several times, so the ink blends in a little.  Next, you press a piece of paper on top of the shaving cream and then pull it off.  Lastly, you gently wipe the shaving cream off the piece of paper and end up with a great marbled piece of paper!

May You Have Happiness

This week's challenge on I am the diva was to create a tangle with some pink for Breast Cancer Month in honour of Ardath and others we had known who have been touched by breast cancer.

All I could think about was, damn cancer sucks.  Cancer has touched many of my family members and family friends.  My mom passed away from ovarian cancer when I was 15.  My great friend M lost her dad this past year.  It's just awful.

The woman who first opened my eyes to art when I was a teenager died from breast cancer several months ago.  Her name is Linda.

Such an ugly disease that is never pretty.  It's never...pink.  Linda, an artist and also an MD, hated the pink movement.  She knew what cancer looked like.  Linda was never very girly to begin with wore army fatigues to her chemo treatments to show she was fighting a war in her body.  And she was.

One of the last things she wanted to tell everyone was, "Be good and love one another."

I wanted my Zentangle to radiate happiness.  I wanted it to make you smile.  For the people out there that are dealing with cancer, or have cancer, you are not alone.  You are not forgotten.  May you have happiness.

Challenge #189 and Night Swim

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I saw the challenge this week on I am the Diva and decided I wanted to so some sort of landscape with the doodle.  When I was little, I used to draw a ton of dolphins on things, so why not dolphins with this one?

The challenge feature the lovely tangle by Tina and is called YUMA.  You can see more about it here.

Diva Challenge #188

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This one is for the weekly challenge #188 from I am the diva.  I don't have a lot to say with this one, simply because it breaks my heart that challenges like this are needed in the first place.  http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.com/2014/10/weekly-challenge-188.html

"A person is a person no matter how small..."

Anyways!

I am also doing Inktober this October!  Anyone else participating?

Zentangle Mondays and Challenge #187

Next time I try drawing a string with my eyes closed, perhaps I should think a bit more simply...ha!

I did have fun making it - and enjoyed the black and pink microns...and then the grey and pink watercolors.

See the other entries here:  http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.com/2014/09/weekly-challenge-187.html

Weekly Challenge #186 - Fall is Here!

This week's challenge was to do something with leaves (and to make it autumnish if we so chose!).  I decided to try some spray inks - first time ever - with leaves on top and then doodled them after.  It was a lot of fun!

Check out the other great entries - and Happy Fall!

Weekly Challenge #185 - The Shell Continues On

This week's challenge was a duo tangle, which means we can only use two tangles for the whole design.  Fun way to try something new!  The tangles immediately reminded me of a shell and the ocean - so I hinted towards that.  Also used my neocolor II and gelatos...on regular, not heavy duty paper.  Whoops!  Page is a little wrinkly, but it will live.

 Check out the rest of the great submissions here: http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.com/2014/09/weekly-challenge-185.html

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It's up on RedBubble, too! http://www.redbubble.com/people/imknottangled/works/12653991-the-shell-continues-on

Weekly Challenge #184 Mandala

This week's challenge from the I am the diva blog was to use a new Zentangle called "Ing" by Molly Hollibaugh.  Was a little trickier to do in a circle than I expected, but it seems to have come out OK.

Also tried to do a nice black boarder around the outside, and uh, you can see how well that turned out.  I gave up and painted the whole thing black.  Just goes to show those "happy accidents" can turn out alright (Thanks Bob Ross!  Ha!)

Ocean Girl & Weekly Challenge 181

 

This week's weekly challenge is WATER! Which is one of my favorite things - the ocean!  http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.com/2014/08/weekly-challenge-181_18.html

I am also in the middle of watching a Jane Davenport DVD for Whimsical Faces. http://janedavenport.com/

So the first thing I thought of was, "I am going to draw an Ocean Girl."  And here she is!

Face was drawn in pencil, then with microns.  Hair, tangles, etc were freehand with the microns.

Weekly Challenge 180 - The Window

 

I was ridiculously excited to do the challenge on http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.com/ this week. Pens and markers were prepared!  I pulled out paper! 

So, this week we were to use MacDee by Anneke Van Dam; instructions are here: http://anneke-merrygoround.blogspot.nl/2013/02/new-tangle-pattern-macdee.html

When I first saw it, I immediately thought of plaid...until I started actually drawing it and realized my version looked nothing like plaid! It reminded me more of a window, so that's what I am calling this piece.

Paper is a blank note card.  Used a Gelli Pad with acrylics for the background.  Gel pen and paint Sharpie for the lines.

 

Weekly Challenge 177

This week's challenge was to draw the shape "Truffle" by Caroline Broady.  The pattern ended up reminding me of butterflies.  The butterflies reminded me of how my fiance makes me feel - like I have butterflies around my heart!

OK, enough sappy for now!  Fun challenge - I enjoyed myself making this!

Weekly Challenge #176

This is my first weekly challenge from iamthedivaczt.blogspot.com. So glad to be finally trying these!

This week's challenge was to use a beverage's stain on our paper with tangles overtop. Of course, I used coffee!

I really expected this to turn out poorly - but I am rather pleased with the results. Who knew a little coffee on paper could be so fun?