Friday, 20 August 2010

Zentangle

Over on Lots to Do this week the challenge is "zentangles". and my domino group have had a swap featuring zentangles (I missed it) so I thought I would have a go on a domino.

I have made mine into a pendant with one of my hand-made clay beads on the top - all it needs is something threading though and it can be worn.

I decided to put it on a card so I mounted it on white, then black and then white again.  The last layer of white I did some more zentangling on and then thought I would mount that on black and do even more but this time using a white pen.  Now I wish I had put a plain layer between the two zentangled bits.  My best white pen is a Signo so I used that.  It does come out thicker than my black pen but it looks sort of ok'ish.

I first was alerted to zentangling at CHA in January as Design Originals had previews of some books on it, I thought it looked easy and didn't need a book.  Wrong!  I found it difficult when I came to do it.  We all doodle and draw flowing lines and things but when it came to creating my domino, and subsequent paper bits, I had difficulty.

Mind you if you go over to Lots to Do and see some of the work posted on there by others you will see why I had a problem.  Some absolutely fab pieces on there.

Anyway, here is mine (enough blabbering) - the idea was there even if the execution wasn't.


Sorry about the angle and the flash on top of the domino but it was the best of a zillion photographs I tried to take.