Showing posts with label knights of the round table. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knights of the round table. Show all posts

Monday, February 8, 2016

Shiretown, A New Tangle

 Thank you for being patient while Cindy and I tracked down the problem with the blog.
It has been corrected and you should not have
any more of those nasty pop up boxes
to deal with.
To celebrate, allow me to introduce you to
Shiretown, a new tangle!
Back in the summer, Mark and I traveled to Maine
to look at some houses. 
We overnighted in a hotel name Shiretown.
This is phone photo I took of the carpet in the hallway.
Many of my tangles come from carpets.
 Deconstructing that pattern was simple.
You just break it down one step at a time,
much the same way you draw a tangle.
One step at a time.
 Shiretown makes a fine border as you can see. 
 I really, really love tangling this in a circle!
In the background you see another of my patterns -
barz. No step out drawn, just rows with a series
of straight and diagonal cross lines.
And here is another tile I did using shiretown.
Add a little zander and some 
Knights of the Round Table.
Shiretown looks great in black and white,
but it also looks great with a pop of color.
Why don't you give shiretown a try?
I would love to see what you do with it!
The Creator's Leaf

Thursday, December 31, 2015

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve.
It's here already.
This year has flown past.
Seriously.
A lot of changes have happened in my life,
the biggest being the forming of Simalinas.
This is a book company consisting of 
Ina Sonnenmoser of Germany,
Simona Cordara of Italy,
and myself.
Since September, we have released four books -
the Tangle It! series.
It has been amazing and fun and intimidating and overwhelming 
and busy and hectic and crazy.
And fun.
I love it!
I can't wait to see what 2016 brings to my door.


This particular ATC features several of my tangles:
knights of the round table,
baubles and bow*petal.
So much fun!
Background? Cheap school supply watercolors.
$1.29 on the school row at Wal-Mart.
The Creator's Leaf

Sunday, October 4, 2015

NEW TANGLE: Knights of the Round Table

 I love introducing new tangle patterns!
Here is one I designed that you will find in our new book
 This is a fun tangle that came to me one night
as I was watching Merlin episodes on Netflix.
Lots of ways to vary this pattern.
 As well as plenty of ways to incorporate it into your art.
Shading really makes this tangle stand out.
You can just go crazy mixing it up with other round tangles like I did here.
Or other tangles. They don't need to be round.
Knights of the Round Table is a fun, versatile, 
easy to incorporate tangle
I hope you love it and use it alot!

To pick up your copy of the Tangle It! Journal,
click here or here

The Creator's Leaf

Friday, November 14, 2014

Knights of the Round Table

Each week Joey hosts a tangle challenge. Some weeks I participate, some weeks I run behind schedule. This week I just happened to make it in time. Joey's prompt was to create a monotangle using the pattern knightsbridge

Typical knightsbridge is drawn in a checkerboard fashion. I altered that a bit in the path sweeping through the background in the artwork above. Then I took that same checkerboard idea and put it into circles. All those little circles divided into quarters and darkened ala knightsbridge are popping up in a lot of my drawings lately. I am referring to them as knights of the round table. My very own variation of knightsbridge. It doesn't hurt that I've been watching the British fantasy-adventure Merlin on netflix. I am finally in season 5 and Athur has just convened the Knights of the Round Table to discuss strategy. 

OK, Joey, I'm ready for week #35.