Saturday, November 14, 2015

Diva Challenge #243 ~ Just a tiny taste!

Soooo....the Diva wants us to try to do "just a tiny taste" of a tangle and leave the majority of the tile blank. I actually thought that this would be pretty easy, since I can normally come up with my major focus for a tile early and then wonder what to fill it with. But I found that it wasn't really easy to just leave it blank. It felt unfinished for the most part, but I kept trying anyway. And...miracle of miracles, I actually am getting it posted before midnight on Sunday *giggle*. Well, here they are and not too bad for the most part, so take a quick look please and any feedback is appreciated, whether it is good OR bad. Any and all criticism is always appreciated.

Tile 1:
I love the look of white on black; however, I don't have any black tiles, but I do have a lot of darker colors of cardstock that I used to use for scrapbooking, so here I have used a dark blue with my white gelly roll and a chalk pencil to highlight a bit.

White gelly roll on dark blue cardstock with chalk pencil to highlight.

Tile 2:
I honestly don't know what I was thinking with this one...at any rate it is NOT my favorite. Nothing else to say.
Black and brown microns with colored pencil and graphite
pencil to add shading.

Tile 3:
I had sketched this design a while back in my sketchbook and decided to play with it on a tile. I just thought it was a lot of fun, but that was before hubby and son saw it. They told me that I drew a very nice psychedelic banana and that it must be homage to the 70's that I seem to have a problem remembering. I told them it WAS NOT a banana, but I suspect that I will never hear the end of it now.

Black Micron with graphite shading
Tile 4:
It's a tossup between tile 1 and this one as to which is my favorite this week. My hubby is from New Zealand and the All Blacks are doing rather well, so I was looking at some of the Maori tattoos that some of the All Blacks and others were sporting. Since his family that is still back in New Zealand are such supporters of the rugby team, I thought I would try a ZIA inspired by Maori tattoos.  Hope you like it!

Brown micron on tan scrapbook paper using graphite pencil
and colored pencil to shade and white colored pencil
to highlight. This one was kind of fun!

So there it is, and I hope you enjoy. This really was much more difficult than I imagined it would be. And yes, I did go through some of the previous entries for inspiration....it helps me. So now I will have tomorrow and tonight to go through and comment on the submissions for this week.  If you haven't taken the time to look at all the wonderful submissions, then take a look and see the submissions for this week. You can see what's up over at the Diva's (CLICK HERE) and if you like a challenge, maybe you might consider joining in the fun. Have a great day and enjoy! 

Comments are always appreciated and make me happy.  Thank you!




8 comments:

  1. Wonderful entries for the challenge. The White on blue makes a stunning change, but my absolute favourite is the All Blacks tile. By the way I thought that banana was a crescent moon, and I love the wrap which is draped around it. I must try that on my crescent moons.

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  2. I think the white on blue and Maori tiles are my favorites, too! Thanks for sharing, and giving an entertaining account of your journey this week!

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  3. Oh these are terrific! I like the psychedelic banana a LOT! The Maori one is very special too...who are the All Blacks? Rugby? good work...i like them all.

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  4. I like all of them--even the one you're not that fond of---maybe because I also ventured out into MookaLand for this challenge. The others are quite inspired. The first one is elegant. Having visited New Zealand twice, I'm partial to Maori tattoos. I don't know what to tell you about the banana although "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", which is supposedly about an acid trip, did come to mind. ;-)

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  5. I like all of them--even the one you're not that fond of---maybe because I also ventured out into MookaLand for this challenge. The others are quite inspired. The first one is elegant. Having visited New Zealand twice, I'm partial to Maori tattoos. I don't know what to tell you about the banana although "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", which is supposedly about an acid trip, did come to mind. ;-)

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  6. I too like all of your tiles. Perhaps you could refer to Tile #3 as a crescent moon made of swiss cheese? ... or not :) My husband is an All Blacks fan as well ... something you don't hear too often in the States.

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  7. Love your tiles and my favorite is the Maori inspired tile!

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