Zentangle Challenge

 I admin a group on Facebook called

Zentangle All Around.

We focus on tangles that have some element

of roundness in them - 

a curve or oval or circle - anything round at all.

And we are currently doing a year long focus

on strings. The thought being that at the

end of 2016 we will have 366 pieces of

zentangle art with some element

of roundness to them.

Yesterday I offered the challenge to try  Caren Mlot's tangle navaho  with my tangle All Boxed Up. So this is what I did with them. I worked on a square about 4 inches across. The top tile shows my work unshaded. Across the top is Julie Beland's beauchamp mixed with my baubles, then All Boxed Up to the right. Across the middle is my tangle semaphore. Then in the lower right corner you see Caren's navaho. (Sorry, I haven't posted step outs for semaphore yet.)
The second tile shows the piece totally shaded. I don't do heavy shading like some pieces of art you see online, I go for the lighter touch. But even in the lighter touch, you can see the difference shading makes in your art. Caren's navaho stands out a lot more, the beauchamp baubles are more 3D-ish, and All Boxed Up looks like a completely different tangle.

Challenge for you today? Try these two tangles and let me see what you do. You can post them directly on our Facebook wall - Zentangle All Around.
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