Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Happy Earth Day!

I have been working on an ensemble as one of the last few prompts from One Zentangle a Day. It has taken me almost 2 weeks since I haven't worked on it steadily. I can only imagine how long it would have taken if I had done a 3x3 ensemble! Having looked at a few ensembles on-line I choose to make my string a tad representational to pull the piece together. And while I didn't take into account what I had done on previously completed tiles while I was tangling, I did mainly select patterns that had a theme of either spirals or using Fescu as a "seed." I also tried to make each individual tile stand on it's own merit. I enjoyed doing this piece and like the result.

Tangles Used: Top Left- Bubbles, Paizel, Cat-Kin, and Beadlines
Top Right- Crescent Moon, Paushaluv, Nzeppel, and Verdigogh
Bottom Left- Printemps, Ambler, and Sand Swirl
Bottom Right- Limpitz, Tortuca, Five-Oh, Jelly Roll, and Fescu

The Weekly Diva Challenge was to do a tile with Earth Day as a theme. I decided to work on a larger tile for this and used a 6-inch square tile. I also decided to refresh myself on a couple of techniques I used last year. After tracing around a CD I put in the strings for Sky, Land, and Sea and tangled the Land with a white glaze pen by Sakura as a resist. Then I added watercolor to the areas and used a salt technique in the Sea (how appropriate, lol) and a plastic wrap technique in the Sky (which didn't seem to do much). I took an interim picture at this point....

Tangles Used: Kandysnake and Waves


and then added tangles to Sea and Sky using gel pens. The Five-Oh tangle pretty much obliterated the salt pattern in the Sea area. I wasn't really happy with it so decided to add the Universe as a background using marker to fill and white gel pen to create "Widget" stars. I can't say I'm thrilled with the resulting tile but it was fun to do and I learned some more things about the techniques that I was refreshing.

Tangles Added: Five-Oh, Sand Swirl, and Widgets

Have a great week and remember to be good stewards to this amazing planet we call Earth!

8 comments:

  1. Your ensemble is beautiful; great fun to do isn't it? And the Earth Day tiles are great too.

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  2. I love the top one -- it would also look great as a stitched piece!

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  3. What a beautiful ensemble! And i love the coloring you added to your Earth Day tile. It's been amazing seeing everyone's interpretations of this challenge.

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  4. Your ensemble is great. Love your earth day tile.

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  5. Your ensemble is so lovely! I never tried such an ensemble... I looks so nice so I really think I should have a try too :-)
    I also like your diva-tile, wonderful colours!

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  6. I like your diva tile! It's fun to experiment with watercolour paint, I've used the plastic wrap technique a few times. It's important that the watercolour is wet enough to make contact with the plastic. And don't remove it until the paint is dry. Love your ensemble!

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  7. It's bold and colorful. I love it! Sarah

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  8. Nice ensemble. Your other tiles are fun too with the colors. It's always fun for me to see widgets being used too! :)

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