This week has been a rather interesting week for us. The wildfires in the Western US have made the outside air almost intolerable to breathe. While there are no fires *yet* here in Utah that I have heard of, the fires in Idaho, Washington, and Oregon, as well as California all seem to be blowing their smoke our way and it has been getting stuck in the valley where we live. Even the cats don't seem to want to go outside in this stuff. But the National Weather Service keeps telling us that it should be getting better soon. At least lets hope so. So as a consequence of all this horrible air (I have asthma), I have actually been inside most of the week and getting some things done in the house and garage.....I even managed to throw away some boxes of stuff that I don't need! AND I found some more of my beautiful paper stash. I was a stamper and scrapbooker before I discovered Zentangle and have tons of beautiful paper and art supplies. I am just starting to get back in to experimenting with some of my stuff and hope to post some of my experiments soon. So I took some of this paper and cut it into tiles of various sizes to tangle on because I love the colors.
After reading the challenge this week on the Diva's blogspot, I was ready! Our guest blogger this week, Sharla Hicks, challenged us to
use an old favorite undulating C or S curve tangle and work in a series OR find a new one and begin a new series. I love all of the undulating curve, but never really worked with them much knowingly. But I just really like to use curvy, organic tangles, so I just chose to let my pen take me where it would. I have been sketching all week, but I have a couple of tiles that I want to post now. I have several more in various stages of being finished and will post those as I finish them. So here they are and I hope you like them!
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3.5" tile, Micron pen Sepia, Black, white chalk
Inktense pencils |
This one is a bit bigger, since I wanted to try working a bit bigger because I really like working with these fluid, undulating tangles. I'm not sure if I like this very well, but it turned out ok.
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4" tile, Micron pen black, white chalk, graphite
pencil for shading
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I hope you can check out all of the wonderful challenge pieces that have been shown this week and if you want to try one yourself, you can find it all at
The Diva's blog for inspiration and beautiful pieces.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope to get around to all of the blogs sometime in the next week or so. Have a beautiful day!
