My Danger Zone ?!- Challenge #142

The Diva´s Weekly Challenge # 142: Comfort/Danger Zone

This week Laura´s challenge is to find our comfort zone and to move beyond it into the DANGER ZONE!

So first I thought about my comfort zone when I was creating a Zentangle or ZIA. I wrote down point by point in my sketchbook (see below!). And these are the points for my danger zone:

- no shading

- use a string (No. 76 on TanglePatterns.com)

- drawing with several colors

- use never or rare used tangles (Enyshou, Isochor, MI2, ´Nzeppel, Verdigogh, Yincut and Zander )

Here is my tile…

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… but I am not quite satisfied with that.

Using a string and these tangles is OK. I like drawing with several colors because some tangles get a nice look. But this tile has hardly any contrast and no depth! In the end I am not happy with it. I miss the shading very much!  

However I like this challenge. Only by doing unusual things I come to new conclusions and get new ideas.  

 

Thanks to:
Rick and Maria from Zentangle® for  Enyshou, Isochor, MI2, ´Nzeppel, Verdigogh, Yincut and Zander

CZT® Linda Farmer for the enormous resource of tangle patterns and strings on TanglePatterns.com;
Laura Harms (CZT®) for this special Challenge
 
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Zendala Dare # 78 - No Spider Web!

After a break of some weeks I have a new zendala here.

Every Saturday you can find a new zendala template on Erin Koetz Olson´s (CZT®) Blog The Bright Owl. In this time we have got a lovely template from Erin Koetz Olson, CZT®. Immediately it reminded me about a spider web. But my zendala shouldn´t be a spider web.

Here is the result.

Erin, thank you for this lovely template!

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Fengle & Quandry - Challenge #141

The Diva´s Weekly Challenge # 141: Duotangle – Fengle / Quandry

This week's challenge is to use ONLY the tangles Fengle and Quandry  (Follow the links for the step-outs).  I never used these tangles before. So at first I had to familiarize myself with these tangles and many ideas came to my mind. I love both tangles very much!

Thanks to:
Rick and Maria from Zentangle® for Fengle and Quandry

Laura Harms (CZT®) for  this Challenge
 
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Cards and more Cards

Last week I got so wonderful cards created by my dear artist friends Beo, Bettina, Gerda and Uuna. Please look to my side "My artist friends´ postcards, ATC..." for more details!

Letzte Woche habe ich so wunderschöne Karten von meinen lieben Künstlerfreundinnen Beo, Bettina, Gerda und Uuna erhalten. Mehr Details sind auf meiner Seite "My artist friends´ postcards, ATC..." zu sehen!

 Thank you my dear friends! Have a nice week!

Golden Eye

This month the theme of Art-Journal-Journey Art-Journal-Journey is “She-Art” or “FEMININ”. A few days ago I posted my Moo “Golden Eye” (see here) to Moo-Mania. Now I integrated the Moo into this card. 

Golden Eye (2013; 13 x 18 - Mixed Media)

Other perspective:

 

 Also I post it to http://paintpartyfriday.blogspot.de/.

A nice weekend to everyone!

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Dot By Dot - Challenge #140

The Diva´s Weekly Challenge # 140! “Monotangle, Pointillism style!”
Pointillism is an artistic style using tiny dots! It's not really a tangle. The challenge this week is to create a tile using only tiny dots.
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Thanks to:
Laura Harms (CZT®) for this Challenge

Also I would like to show you a gorgeous bookmark which was drawn by my artist friend Annemarie.
Furthermore I have got the wonderful ATC from my artist friend Simone. I am very proud of these artworks.

 Created by Annemarie
(Bookmark - both sides)

 Created by Simone
(ATC Farbenrausch 02)

Please look on my side here for more details.
















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Golden Eye - Moo

This is my first Moo for Moo-Mania Challenge.
A Moo is a little card sized 2.8 x 7 cm (1.1 x 2.8 inches). Really a little card!
This time is the theme EYES on the Moo-projects. Sometimes I try different things on little pieces of paper. Today I have drawn different eyes which I ´ll need for a bigger sized project. On this occasion I created this Moo.
The second picture is a montage of this Moo.
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Golden Eye (2013; 7 x 2,8 cm)

Golden Eye (2013; Montage)

More about Moo-Mania

 Here are my first ATC´s (Artist Trading Cards, see here) and new trading postcards (see here).
A swap is possible as from now. If you are interested in a swap, contact me please.

 My ATC´s

New trading postcards

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