Diva Challenge #111 - Mooka Madness

The challenge this week from Laura at I am the Diva is to monotangle Mooka.

When I first tried Mooka last year I could not get it and did not enjoy drawing it, however I kept on seeing so many great examples of it being used the I persevered. I have now grown to love it and use it often. However not often as a mono-tangle.

I started with a flower type ZIA, which I like but it is quite plain, I feel it needs some other Tangles.

 

 



I tried again this time using a tile, I drew the pattern and it looked bare, I really wanted to fill the gaps in using Tipple, but because this is a mono-tangle I couldn't, so I went for black. I am not that keen on the finished result, the black makes it hard to see the shading on the Mooka.

 

I know there are no mistakes in Zentangle (!) however I drew this one again without the black. And I think I might just go back and add the Tipple into it (when no one is looking)

Diva Challenge #110

The challenge from Laura this week is to find something way out of your comfort box. You can see the challenge here.

I am quite a neat and ordered person and my pieces are usually quite structured. I normally do not use colour either.

So I decided that colour should be my challenge, I started with white piece of paper and a graduated watercolour wash, I then stamped over it with a few Kaisercraft background stamps. Here is the finished background paper that I created.

I then tried to tangle patters that would fit in, I used the bubble wrap background stamp to tangle Bubbles and Cruffle, I love Verdigogh, it's such a simple yet effective tangle. I also used Fans, Angel Fish, Catkin, Mooka (another favourite) and Flux.

I was definitely well out of my box as this is much more unstructured and organic than my usual tiles. It was fun doing something different.

Diva Challenge #109

The challenge this week from Laura at I am the Diva was to use 3D banding and tangle within it.

It has taken me a while to get round to the challenge this week, life just got in the way...too much to do and I have also been doing more Art-journaling as well.

However here is my attempt, I found it quite tricky to work out which tangles would fit in well to give the 3D effect, I think it turned out OK.

I also want to do my proud Mother bit and post this picture which my daughter (age 15) drew for me for Mothers Day. It's A5 sixe and the scan does not really do it justice, I just love it.

Diva Challenge #108

The challenge from Laura this week was to use the Tangle  "Whyz". The challenge can be found here and instructions to Whyz here.

I always enjoy the challenge when it is to use a Tangle that I have not tried before.  I kept to the original variation of the tangle and combined it into a tile on two different scales (and I only had one deliberate mistake!)

Diva Challenge #107

The challenge this week from laura at I am the Diva is to use the new Official Tangle Quandary, this is a fun tangle with lots of Tangelation possibilities, I decided to go for a mono-tangle and try out a few variations.

Diva Challenge #106

Those of you who have looked at my blog before will know that the stripey snake tanlge features quite a lot. So when the challenge from Laura at I am the Diva this week was to incorporate a snake for Chinese New year as it it the Year of the Snake I thought great. See the challenge here.

Howewver my mind then went blank......

I ended up with the following tile which I quite liked until I added Cadent which I think doesn't quite work... Ah well I posted it anyway because there are no mistakes in Zentangle!

Diva Challenge #105

AS it is the first Monday of the month, the challenge this week from Laura, which you can find HERE is a Use My Tangle challenge. The tangle we are using this week is from  Margaret Bremner, the tangle is Dansk and you can see it here 

I had not used this tangle before so was looking forward to trying it out. However I found it quite difficult to get it to look right. I think it needs a bit more practice.

Thanks to everyone who visited last week and left comments.