zinger

Here is another tangle that I added to an ongoing larger piece. 

 This is zinger(the tangle for the challenge over at iamthediva)

 

i decided to add this to the weekly challenge links - might as well since I am actually doing the challenges! duh!

Curved Z String

I was antsy last night so did a tangle while Randy watched TV. I like the Torchon Lace addition in particular. Which do you like best?

Empty Nest

The prompt from A Year in the Life of an Art Journal this month is BIRD. Here's the details!
This is my take on it....



I had pre-painted this spread but didn't like the colors so painted it over with white acrylic. That didn't suit my mood so I plastered it with blue acrylic paint. Perfect! I intended to use white acrylic ink to add the details but when I cleaned my dip pen I splotched the paint with windex. I loved the result so created the three egg shapes in the lower right corner using more windex. Then I rubbed a bit more away until I got this nice speckled effect. I used a white Sharpie Poster Paint pen to add the details of two bird shapes and some lines. From there I just filled in areas with designs and patterns as I felt lead. I wanted a full, unexpected,  busy look to it since that is how I am feeling about having adult children right now. Its sort of crazy and chaotic but lovely none the less! I also wanted the parent bird shapes to sort of fade away and blend in to the page to show we are not as prominent in the lives of our fledglings! A happy celebration of a new life stage!

Weekly Zentangle Challenges (Catching up)

Though I have fallen behind in blogging and posting I have tried to keep up with my art journaling and zentangles these past few weeks. Today I made time to scan in a number of images and truly realized how far behind I got. Personally and privately its been a tough few weeks but no need to cover it all here. I am planning to post as regularly as I possibly can in the next few days. I will be traveling soon for an unknown period of time but hopefully will be able to post none the less.

So without further ado here are my recent zentangles prepared (but not posted) for iamthediva's weekly challenge. 

Weekly Challenge 9 "Artoo"

Weekly Challenge 10 - The Space Between


I did not work on Challenge 11 but may end up doing one to post here.
Challenge 12 - Something Blue (aka Blue Tsunami)
The weekly challenge is to do something blue and with the horrible earthquake/tsunami that hit Japan recently, we have been inundated with images of  wave maps, wave intervals, etc. This simple zen is in response to this disaster. 

A Heart (for Artoo)

Weekly Challenge 8 - a heart, originally uploaded by Trish Nonaka.


Its taken me a few days to get to this but I wanted to spend time thinking about little "Artoo" while I was working on it so didn't want to be interrupted. I found some quality time today to do it. They challenge was to create a heart and to incorporate two previous challenges within the design. I added Week 6 (Ixorus) and Week 4 (Starry Eyed) which can be found deep within the "Tink" patterned area. 
I hope the little guy is feeling much better now and is fully recuperated soon!

Breathe

Zen Weekly Challenge #7, originally uploaded by Trish Nonaka.

I thought "Opus" fit this theme very nicely especially when combined with "Ahhhhh"