Zendala Dare #23

Zendala Dare #23

As mentioned in the Diva’s challenge post, I have been a lump, but I still wanted to do the Zendalla dare, but was having trouble getting started. I had already done the random tangles, so I came up with something new. So I opened my 106 tangles book from Rick & Maria and started at the beginning. Of course I did not get all 106 in this week, but I figure for the next few dares I’ll keep going till I am through all of the official patterns. Should keep me busy a few weeks at least. I choose to avoid color and only did minimal shading, all in all I am a fan of how this turned out.

~Roy

weekly-challenge-87

Weekly-challenge-87

Well with the loss of pops, I have been pretty much a lump the last week. For this challenge I decided I wanted something bold, and with just a couple patterns. I know in Zentangle® there are no mistakes, but I made a couple here, and did not like this when I finished it, but as often happens it grew on me so here is my tile for the challenge this week.

~Roy

For Jack (Dad)

As some of you may be aware my father passed away yesterday around 6:00 A.M. I felt the need to sit down today and create a piece of Zentangle® Inspired Art for him. I was not sure what I would do, so I started like you do with any tangle. First I added a border. Then a string, the string ended up with a spiral type pattern, with six other areas around the spiral. This made my decision for patterns easy, I decided to make the spiral represent mom and dad finally joined together again in the eternal dance. The other six sections would represent each of the six kids. I selected a tangle for each section that started with the first letter of each persons name.  I stuck with the original 106 patterns that are in the Guide I have. 

Patterns and Names 
Dad: (John):      Jonqal - Starts with Jon, and looks almost like a dance floor.
Mom (Vivian):  Vega - Creates a feel of pillars to to, and mom was the pillar of the family.
Saundra:           Static
John:                Juke
Mike:               Mysteria
Rodger:           Raddox
Joellen:            Jetties
Roy (Me):       Rick's Paradox

Here it is, I hope you like it wherever you are dad.
~Roy

Weekly Challenge #86 "Break Free!"

Weekly Challenge #86 "Break Free!"

After the morning I had today, this challenge was sorely needed. I jumped into it with a gusto, and am very pleased with the results. I decided to start with Aura-Knot (I have been using it a lot I know.) And for the initial break free I added Squid, and wove it through the knot. After doing this I decided to push the border further and added a background that went all the way to the edge of the tile, removing the border all together. I decided to push a little further and add a little color. I love, love, love the finished tile, even if I am still a little anti-color, in my zentangle®. Here is the tile turned in two different directions. 

I Hope you enjoy this as much as I do!

~Roy

Weekly Challenge #85: UMT v. VIII: Copada

Weekly Challenge #85: UMT v. VIII: Copada

OK, so I am a little late in doing the challenge this week. It has been a busy week, and with the stress I am under due to my dad's failing health, I should be doing a lot more tangling. Today, I have done a lot of tangles, but the rest of the week has been mixed between being busy, and vegging. 

Tonight I told myself I'd do this weeks challenge, so with out further comment I present "The Copada Under the Bed", sorry it looks like a monster to me. Which is not a bad thing.
~Roy

Zendala Dare #22 – Monodala

Ok when I saw the Zendala Dare #22 I got a little excited, this dare merged two things I have grown to love, Zendalas and Monotangles. I had to resist the urge to do my favorite Tangle, and my go to tangle since I attended CZT-9 which is Indy-Rella. So I let chaos reign and decided to go completely random. I went to Tanglepatterns.com and had excel choose a random number for me from 1 to 26 [=ROUNDUP(RAND()*(26-1)+1,0)] the result was 23, the letter V. The letter V has nine patterns currently so I had Excel choose another number for me [=ROUNDUP(RAND()*(9-1)+1,0)]the result this time was 5, which meant Verve was my pattern.

            This was a mixed blessing, I happy as it was a pattern I had not used before, but I was really wanted something I could do more Tangleation of. Though it was a pattern I was not very familiar with I am very happy with the outcome. It almost reminds me of a curvy Rick’s Paradox.

            Hope you enjoy this.

~Roy

OK - I was walking the dog tonight, and it hit me that I should do a second Monodala.... I felt that I should attempt it in Auoraknot, so here is the second Monodala.

Zendala Dare # 21

Well as it was the Zendala class that really drew me into the wonderful world of Zentangle® it was justa  matter of time before I decided to join in the Zendala Dare. below is my Zendala  for this weeks dare. I tend to be a purist and stick to black and white, but this called for a little red highlighting.