Well, after Rick and Maria announced this tangle, I kept looking at it trying to decide what exactly I could do with it. To tell the truth, it honestly didn't look like something I would like to play with much. So I sat down and practiced and practiced and practiced ... and I still didn't really like it. So I played with it some more. Here are a few of my trials with it ... they aren't bad, but it just didn't feel right to me.
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Just one page of many that I tried of gourdgeous...I just
couldn't make it feel like it was mine! |
So, I finally decided to just jump in and try something ... anything ... to see if I could truly like this tangle. I do love that it flows nicely (at least a few of them did). Hubby decided that they looked more like an onion until I showed him what it looked like when Maria drew it...lol. But I grabbed one of my small sketchpads and decided to see what I could do with the brown pen. It looked better to me and by the time I got it shaded and tinted, I really felt like this tangle and I could be friends. Take a look below!
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I like the way that this one turned out. I used an 005 and 01
sepia Micron, Prismacolor pencils, graphite pencil, and tried
a Tombow light grey marker for the first time. It actually does
look a bit better in person, since my camera is not a real
good one and I took the picture under flourescent light, not
daylight. But I am definitely please with this one. |
I am happy that I actually managed to get this posted before midnight tonight, so now I hope to go back through all the submissions this week and leave some comments. I have looked at some of them and now I want to go and see the rest of them.
Thank you for stopping by, and as always, any comments, feedback, criticism, or even just a "hi" is appreciated. If you want to see the rest of the submissions for the Diva's Challenge for this week, head on over to her blog (
click here) and check out all the other artist's work. Perhaps you will join us soon and let us see what you do too *grin* Thanks again for stopping.
I think you did very well and the tile looks lovely. I do know what you mean because I had the same problem with this tangle. I don't think I will use it often.
ReplyDeleteBeautifully done! I love your shading and the grey tints. Gorgeous!
ReplyDeletevery nice, i like the shine
ReplyDeleteYour efforts really paid off, Lezli! That's a beautiful tile. The colors just glow.
ReplyDeleteLezli, I love your Gourdgeous on the tan paper - it really rocks!! :) :)
ReplyDelete~ Diane Clancy
http://www.dianeclancy.com/blog/2015/11/my-diva-new-official-tangle-gourdgeous