21 Secrets - Doodling our way

Back again after completing my second 21 secrets Art-journaling class. This class was from Cathy Bluteau and was about collage and doodling mixed together. I have always struggled with collage in the past as I could never get it to look cohesive. Cathy taught some good techniques and I am pleased with how the final product turned out.

I am off to continue with my 21 secrets journey...

21 Secrets - Watercolour Playground

I recently signed up to 21 Secrets which is an online Art Journaling series of workshops, there are 21 workshops by 21 different artists. I thought this would be a good way to go as it gives a chance to try out lots of different styles and learn lots of new things. This year's registration is closed ( I got in on the last day).

My first workshop was by Tammy Garcia, Tammy has an amazing website called Daisy Yellow and hosts a number of challenges. I took part in the ICAD (Index Card a Day) challenge earlier this year.
See Tammy's website HERE, there is loads of interesting information on it.

The workshop was called Watercolour Playground and here are my pieces from it

First we learnt how to do stripes and wording

Then blending and bubbles

And finally put it all together in one fun piece.

Diva Challenge #138 and Repeating Stack challenge

This week I had a bit more time so I have done 2 challenges.

First the weekly challenge from Laura at I am the Diva, see here. The challenge was to look around you and see borders and use them in your tile. I took inspiration from boxes, a fireplace and picture frames and here is my tile, fairly simple but fun.

The other challenge I did this week was from Jusy West at Creative Doodling, I have not done one of Judy's challenges for ages, this was to do a Repeat Pattern Stack see here. Judy's examples are all organic but I kept mine more structured and used triangles and oblongs.

I have just signed up for 21 Secrets Art Journaling online classes so I am really looking forward to starting that and blogging about it. It will be something quite different from Zentangling and much more out of my comfort zone.

Diva Challenge #137 Tipple and Knightsbridge

The challenge this week from Laura is to produce a Duo-Tangle using only Tipple and Knightsbridge, you can see the challenge post here.

I enjoyed this challenge, I love using Tipple and a probably don't use Knightsbridge as much as I could so it was interesting to combine the two. Once I started on this I just kept on going it was so much fun, here are a couple of my attempts.

Diva Challenge #136 Colour

The challenge from Laura at I am the Diva this week was to use colour in our Tangle. You can see the challenge and all the other entries here.

I went about this challenge in 2 different ways, the first one was to colour my pages in my Art Journal with Pastels, one page in swirls, the other straight line. I then tangled in black.

For the second Zia, I used coloured pens. A local Tesco was having a sale and I picked up a set of 3 Pilot V5 pens in pink, lilac and teal which I probably would not have bought if they had not been in the sale. They are great free flowing pens with 0.5 nibs, I would definitely recommend them.

I had lots of fun with this challenge, thanks Laura.

Diva Challenge #135

It has been ages since I have managed to do any blogging or any of these challenges, just too much stuff going on this summer. However I am at home for the moment recuperating after an op so I have some time on my hands and a chance to do this week's challenge.

The challenge from Laura this week is to use the new official Tangle "well", you can see Laura's challenge here.

I decided that I would go with monotangles, I enjoy doing monotangles as it makes me try to use the pattern in different ways,  this is my favourite tile.I have a couple of structured patterns and a more organic version.

 

 

I like how the background turned out on this tile but I think the overall tile looks too busy

 

 

 

And finally I did a colour version, I love the pattern at the top and how this looks so different from the other versions of this pattern.

 

 

 

 

Border Tutorial

When I posted my last card in the Daisy Yellow ICAD group a couple of people asked how I did the 3D border, so here is a quick step by step guide