Days 8 and 9 of Inktober #hahnemühle #zebrapen #inktober #inktober2018 #inktobertaa

I am falling behind on Inktober. 

Blog issues, book issues, computer issues, 

new computer issues.

It's been a messed up last 4 days!

This tile was for October 9th, which was yesterday.

Again I used the Hahnemühle YouTangle.art Tiles

for both these days.

The color on this one came from Zebra Pens'

beautiful mildliners. 

I used them like watercolor - which worked

wonderfully!

The tangle is a relatively new one called

PeelD.

I threw in some printemps because . . .

why not?

 Here is day 8.

Working backwards.

The color came from Twinkling H2Os,

a product that originally came out about

20 years ago and still works great today.

For both these tiles I used a 

Zensations Technical Pen from Zebra Pens 

to do the tangling.

Patterns on this one are:

peeks, ripped screen, tipple

and printemps. 

Want to join us for Inktober?

My Facebook group Tangle All Around

are working through the month together.

I am really pleased with the number of

people participating and all the beautiful

and inspired work they are posting.

It is really just awesome and amazing!

You can come see what I mean

by clicking here. 

Want to pick up some of the super

YouTangle.art Tiles from Hahnemühle?

Click here.

Zebra Mildliners?

Click here.

Technical Pens?

Click here.

And please come back tomorrow.

In between installing a new computer,

moving all the files over, trying to find a 

new publisher, and possibly even a new

blogging site -

maybe I will be able to fit in a tile.

Because I am now behind.

The struggle is real.

Bwahahahahahaha!

Note: as much as I'd love to hear from you,

the comment function of my blog no longer

works. Why? Your guess is as good as mine,

because we have been working on it literally

for a couple months. Just know you are loved

and appreciated! 

Day 5 Inktober and It's Getting a Little Harder #inktober #inktober2018 #hahnemühle #zebrapenus

It's getting a bit harder to keep up with both

challenges I am doing.

Got a little carpal tunnel stuff going on with

my drawing hand.

In a brace right now and taking it easy,

other than making this post. 

Day 5's tangle is Dazl.

Got to say this one doesn't do anything for me.

I opted to keep the design minimal

and I think it was effective.

Makes me dislike dazl a little less this way.

Hahaha!

Sorry, Diana. 

I used a Hahnemühle YouTangle.art Tile,

some Distress Ink from Tim Holtz, 

a Zensations Technical Pen from Zebra,

a white Gelly Roll from Sakura,

and that is pretty much it.

Minimal.

I admin a Facebook group called

Tangle All Around

and we are working through Inktober together.

Care to join us?

You can by clicking here.

You can purchase some Hahnemühle

YouTangle.Art Tiles here. 

And the Zensations line of pens here. 

Day 4 Inktober #hahnemühle #inktober18 #zebrapenus

Day 4 of Inktober brings me back to another

Hahnemühle YouTangle.art Tile and my

Ranger Distress Ink pads.

That background color is the distress ink.

I used Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils

to shade and add the green.

Apparently you can't see all that green

bleedover when the tile is actually its

 normal size of 3.5" and not how it shows

on this screen. 
Tangling was done with a Zensations
Technical Pen from Zebra Pen.

Hahahaha! Oh well!

Oh! The tangles are:

rixty and viola.

Don't have a place to hang out for Inktober?

Come on over to my Facebook group

Tangle All Around

where we are doing Inktober together.

We would love for you to join us. 

Want to pick up some YouTangle.art Tiles?

You can do that right here. 

Day 3 Arting is Happening Now #hahnemühle #zebrapenus #inktober2018 #31productschallenge

 Day 3 of Inktober and I'm still going strong. 

Hahahahaha!

The art for day 3 was done on a

YouTangle.art Tile from Hahnemühle.

I used distress oxide ink pads from Ranger

and scraped on color, as well as rubbed 

the tile in a watered down version on 

a craft mat. The tangle for the day is ballace.

That is the one done in the round.

The other tangle I added is gnarly.

A fun and forgiving tangle that can be

done in just about any configuration you wish.

My Facebook group Tangle All Around is doing

Inktober together. Want to join us?

Just click here.

So I'm also doing the 31 Products Challenge.

I loved the way this large canvas looked prior

to today. Now I am just not sure. 

The thought is to use a different product each 

day for the entire month of October. 

I opted to use this 12" x 24" canvas.

I will look at it again tomorrow and if I hate

this, you will be seeing a bunch of white

on it tomorrow. Hahahahaha!

For some reason I can not get a true color

photo of this.

It is fluorescent pink, purple, and yellow on a

white background. Today I used craft paints

(cheap ones) to add some messy marks.

The blue and yellow ones are glow in the dark.

Heheheheh! 

Time will tell. 

Roundup:

you can join Inktober fun with us here,

you can purchase YouTangle.art Tiles here,

and you can join the 31 Products Challenge here. 

Can You See the Progress in Your Art? #tangleallaround #taa

This post is a

Show and Tell

post. Hahaha!

This week's 

I Dare You! prompt

in Tangle All Around

was to take your very first piece of tangled art

and re-create it. 

The purpose is to show that you are progressing

and improving in your tangle skills.

This is especially important when you don't

feel like you are getting better.

When you are unsure that you are getting

anywhere.

You are!

Honest.

The tile on the left is the very first one

I ever did. Scratchy uneven lines, overlaps and

all! If you click once on the photo, it should

enlarge where you can see all the imperfections

and boo-boos. And I was crazy proud of this tile!

I was teaching myself from the Zentangle Basics

book Suzanne McNeill had out.

No formal training by a zentangle teacher.

I remember texting it to my daughter to

show her what I was learning.

Well this week, I pulled that tile out and

tangled it again - the way I tangle now.

You will notice I do some of the patterns

differently now. But overall it is the same tile.

Yes, I have been doing this for 6 years.

And this is how I can see that I have improved.

That I have progressed.

If you are questioning whether you are tangling

better, if you are progressing and growing your

skill, 

I challenge you to pull out the very first

piece you ever tangled

and

do it again.

Then look at the two side by side

and you will see a miracle.

I promise. 

Interested in the I Dare You! prompts?

Come join us on Facebook at

Tangle All Around.

I post a whole new batch of prompts

tomorrow.

I would love for you to join us. 

Finishing Some Projects #hahnemühle #hahnemühlegreybook #dylusionsinksprays #altenewwatercolor #taa #tangleallaround

Yesterday was a day for finishing up projects.

Above you see a page in my

Hahnemühle Grey Book

(yes, those pages are grey in color)

that I covered with Altenew Watercolors

using a simple flat brush. 

Just a little color blocking.

Once it was dry, I used the same flat brush and

made rings of petals.

Yesterday I went back in with a straight up

black Sharpie and added everything you see

in black. And popped in some white gelly roll 

details to complete the page.

Super simple but fun. 

Through Instagram I have already had a

video request to show how to do this page.

That will be coming soon.

That and a video showing how I draw

my printemps. 

And I might add that even though I used a straight up Sharpie - 

it did not bleed through this 55 lb. paper. 

I honestly don't think my layer of watercolor

stopped that, so it had to be the paper. 

This piece has been a thorn in my side for several years.

Seriously.

It started off about 12" x 20".

Somewhere in that ballpark.

I did the Dylusions Ink Sprays first and started

tangling the page.

A little at a time.

And I pretty much always hated the way it looked.

So I would stick it back on the shelf and do

something else. 

Then one day I would pull it out and do something else.

And still hate it.

A couple days ago I figured I'd give it one more go.

As I looked at it yesterday I realized there was one

section I actually liked.

It was all the rest that I didn't like.

So I got out my paper cutter and lobbed off

this section (about 8" x 10") 

and chucked the rest into the trash!

Yes!!!

Take that non-zenful stuff that I drew!

And then I completed this portion and kept it.

And now I love it!

Let's see. Tangles that I kept:

fiore (gotta love fiore!), blooming butter,

loads of tipple and printemps,

my own airways and a new one I am totally

going to call anemone. 

And boom!

Done and in love!

And it only took me about 4 years.

Not even kidding. 

Today I am working on the new I Dare You!

prompt from my FB group

Tangle All Around.

We are taking our very first zentangle tile we

ever made

and are recreating it now that we have a little

experience under our belts.

Stay tuned.

That will be tomorrow's post.

Want to join us in a very active,

inspirational and encouraging tangling group?

Click here to see what it's all about.

Doing a Little Tangling #tangleallaround #janedavenportinkredibleink

 Trying to get back in the routine of posting every day.

That means I need something to post.

Hahaha!

I got some new inks from Joggles last week.

Jane Davenport's Inkredible Inks.

The colors are bold and lovely.

They didn't spread very well when dripped into

water, but I was able to push them around

a bit with a heat gun. 

Not sure how many colors she came out with,

but I have nine. Yay!!!

I love bright and beautiful!

And then I tangled on them cause that's 

what I do. 

You probably will not recognize most of the

patterns because they haven't been

released yet.

Except for coral and airways.

 This one was a little easier.

About 3" x 4", I used crescent moon,

hached, knase and Harlee Qwin.

 Another 3" x 4" piece, using eye-wa, florz,

and two of my own that haven't been released yet.

 A 4.5" tile with printemps and a pattern I'm 

working on called chunky monkey -

except I made some boo-boos. 

So I guess you can call this one flunky monkey.

And yay!!!!!

Our Facebook group

Tangle All Around 

just hit 5,400 members this morning.

We will be working through INKtober

together during October.

Want to join us?

Come here and knock on the door.

I'll let you in <3 .

A Tangle Sampler #tangleallaround

In my Facebook group 

Tangle All Around

we have weekly prompts. 

This week's I Dare You! prompt was to make

a tangle pattern sampler using color.

I opted to use my Hahnemühle Watercolor book

and my newly put together watercolor kit. 

I started by making some oddly (haha!) shaped boxes

of color. I wanted them to be square but that wasn't

to be. Not so much. 

Isn't that a cool little watercolor kit?

I bought the tin filled with empty half pans on Amazon,

then filled the half pans with color from my tubes.

Waited till for-stinkin-ever for them to dry,

then used a water brush to pick up the color

and make the boxes.
The Hahnemühle Watercolor book can be purchased
here. 

Today I added some of my own tangle patterns

and made a cute little sampler.

I am using this watercolor book to track my

tangle history in patterns.

You can see an entire post about it here. 

(But no giveaway because that has already happened.)

Come join us at Tangle All Around.

We have a rockin' group of awesome

tanglers - brand new to advanced -

and we help each other learn.