Fantasy Landscapes Seuss Style - Hopefully :)

 One of the prompts this week in 

Zentangle All Around

is to use Sandra Strait's step outs and

make a fantasy landscape!

You can see all her patterns she developed

for this process here on her blog. 

I began by practicing Sandra's step outs in my journal.

I drew the ones that I liked best, then put stars

by the ones I thought looked the most

Dr. Seuss-y!

I did not use all the patterns I marked, but I pulled from them to do this.  One thing Sandra did that I totally forgot was to color the landscape itself - the grounds, the skies - and add tangles to those.  My journal is a 5" x 8" and doesn't have a lot of space for everything I wanted to do. I do love the way it turned out, though. And I can still add to the background.

Lastly, I added color. My thought with the grass clumps and the white spaces was that when I used to read ALL those Dr. Seuss books to the kids - I remember lots of white space. Am I wrong?  My favorite parts are - the water fountain I made using one of Sandra's plant patterns and the leaning building I made from one of her plant patterns and  those crazy little tie-died sheep! And  I totally had to add an inukshuk for my Canadian peeps.  Now I think I will go back and add some watercolor washes to the backgrounds.
For those who want to know - the watercolors I used are Schmincke. I also used Lolliz gel pens to add lots of sparkle. Which - for the most part - doesn't photograph.
Fantasy Landscapes. It's where it's at this week in Zentangle All Around (FB).