Getting Sketchy and INKtober #zensations #hahnemuhle

 It is so hard to believe we are half way through

INKtober!

And what is even more amazing is the

fact that I am still keeping up!

Yesterday's tangle prompt for INKtober

was lollywimple. This tangle was designed by

a dear friend of mine - Sandy Hunter. She is such an

amazing artist and designer.

I chose lollywimple as one of our daily prompts

just so I could play with it,

and share it with everyone in 

Zentangle All Around. 

I tangled lollywimple with a Sarasa Fineliner pen from

Zebra Pen.

I used a 3.5" square Hahnemuhle You Tangle.art tile.

I am trying to use these two supplies everyday

for INKtober. 

Shading was with graphite and tort.

So. Much. Fun!

 The prompt on the 14th was Flying Geese.

What a fun tangle!

I chose to draw mine in a circle format.

If you look at the picture above, you will see

there are actually four concentric circles.

In each layer I drew the basic lines for

flying geese. In the center and third circles,

the pattern points outward.

In the second and fourth circles,

the pattern points inward.

The little black dots are my reminders for

which sections to blacken in with my Sarasa pen.

Then I filled in those sections with black,

shaded various parts,

and called it done.

I really like how this turned out.

When I posted it in 

Zentangle All Around,

I had several people contact me and ask

how this was flying geese.

Their mind's eye just couldn't see it,

which is why I'm blogging the picture above it.

 Getting Sketchy has kind of taken a back seat for me

the past few weeks.

I am fast and furiously working on some new

book material. Hoping to put two new books

out on the market within the next couple weeks.

My son is helping me with one of the books,

and neither of us has done this completely by

ourselves before. So this might be interesting.

I have all these great ideas and I am trying to

figure out how to get them on a page in an

attractive format. 

But . . .

I can offer you two pages of scribbled out,

scratched out notes and attempts

at some of the things you might see in book #2.

Soon.

God willing.

In the interim, if you don't have a regular place to

get tangling inspiration

or

you are looking for a place to jump on the

INKtober band wagon,

head on over to Facebook and search for

Zentangle All Around.

Knock on the door and I will let you in.

Hope to see you there! 

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