Zentangles

This post explains my entry into the It’s a String Thing Challenge #294. My route to the world of Zentangles is different from that of most people. Back when I was in high school I took geometry. At the end of the course, each class member had to do a project that demonstrated the concepts

This post is in response to It’s a String Thing (IAST) challenge #293. It has been a while since I have participated in a challenge or posted any tangles. By the way, this is my first IAST challenge. IAST challenges always start with a string. I tend to shy away from strings, because they intimidate

I liked this week’s challenge, because I found the pattern HaWy fascinating. I love patterns that have patterns within the pattern, and that was so true for this one. Lately, I have been experimenting with geometric art, which is nothing more than art that consists of geometric shapes. For this challenge, I created three pieces

I Am the Diva Challenge #382 The Challenge: Use a striping as your string. Striping is usually done with curved lines, but I could not see any reason why I could not use straight lines. So, that is what I did. I like the result. As I have mentioned several times, I create my tangles

I Am the Diva Challenge #380 The Challenge: Use a circle as your string. Happy new year everyone! For this challenge The Diva created a spundala and tangled on it. I use software to create my tangles and the software equivalent to a spundala is a radial gradient. So, for this challenge I created a

I Am the Diva Challenge #379 The Challenge: Create a holiday tile. Happy holidays everyone. I hope you are enjoying the season. In the holiday spirit, I have created a blinking image. I usually use software, Inkscape and Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, to create my tiles. One reason I create them this way is because Inkscape

I Am the Diva Challenge #378 The Challenge:  Use the tangle 123 O’Leary. 123 O’Leary is an interesting tangle. It is a lot like Coil. Just this weekend I spent time figuring out how to draw Coil in the round. So, for this challenge, I drew 123 O’Leary in the round and used red and

I enjoyed doing Inktober 2018 so much that I went back and did Inktober 2017. Some of the prompts were the same. I only duplicated them when I wanted to create a substantial variation. Row 1: Bunzo, Disco, Feeling Knotty Row 2: Diva Dance, Marasu, Ponio Row 3: Rixty, Twizted, Hurry Row 1: Flux, Bales,

I Am the Diva Challenge #377 The Challenge:   Use the tangles Fengle and Poke Root. I have never used Fengle before. Be that as it may, here is my entry.

I really wanted to participate in Inktober this year. But, I got started late; so, I looked for something quick and easy to do. I ended up creating samplers. Please click here to take a look at them and to tell me what you think. You will find a link to a very helpful reference on