Marabu On Hahnemühle Bamboo Results #hahnemuhle #marabueasymarble

 A couple days ago I posted a video showing how

to make these marbled cards.

The product I used was Marabu Easy Marble.

You can buy it here. 

Not expensive, a bottle at $2.54 will last

quite awhile at a couple drops here and a

drop or two there. 

For paper, I used Hahenemühle's

Bamboo Mixed Media Papers.

The ones I chose are roughly 3" x 4". 

The perfect size. 

 You can see from the video this is a super simple

way to marble some papers.

And in a hurry, too. 

The colors are beautiful. 

The colors are fairly accurate here.

One of the things Marabu tells you in the

advertising is that you can not make mud

with these colors.

Hahahahahaha!

That bottom card up above there,

I was trying to show how you couldn't 

possibly make mud. And what do I do?

I make mud. 

Yep.

But, I'm keeping it - contrary to what I said

in the video. I am sure I can do something

sometime with it. Hahahahaha!

I have three favorites from the ones seen above.

I bet those of you who know me best -

can tell which three.

 I did get a pleasant surprise I wasn't expecting.

Because of the way I completely submerged the

Bamboo paper in the marble bath -

the backs had some interesting looks, too!

And I really like that!

I can use both sides!

I don't know how I will use these just yet.

Now that they are totally dry,

some of them feel smooth to the touch and

would take pen work very well.

Some still have strands of goop gunked up on them.

(That's southern talk for 'they are a mess.')

But I will find a use for them because I don't

waste any of this awesome Bamboo paper for

anyone!

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anywhere you see pink means it is a link,

just click on it. 

The link should open in a brand new window,

so you can still find your way back here.

So just remember -

pink=link.

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I would love to welcome you to our group -

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Hands down!

The 100 Day Project Wraps Up! #the100dayproject #ledaartsupply #zentangleallaround

I am going to hope this photo is clearer 

than it shows on my computer screen.

Collage of my 100 pieces of art for

The 100 Day Project!

I made this in the free section of

TurboCollage.com -

a friend pointed me to this program.

I worked on this piece over two days,

so part of it was day 99 and the whole

piece is day 100!

Overall a great project but really - it is

so hard to keep going. 

After awhile you just want to get your life back. 

I will not be doing this project myself

next year, but I will be there in spirit for

those who want to participate.

Great job to my Zentangle All Around members

who kept up with the project and to those

who are finishing up.

All of us totally rock!!!

Working in My Tangle Starts Strings Book #tanglestartsstrings #ledaartsupply #the100dayproject #zentangleallaround

 Tangle Starts Strings,

A String for Every Day of the Year

is doing very well on Amazon.

It published on May 16.

On the 17th it went to #1 on the Hot New Release

list and stayed there for the remainder of

the 30 days that it was eligible.

After 30 days your book comes off the list.

So I am very happy with its success.

The thought behind this book was to provide you

with pre-drawn strings so all you have to do

is pick one and add the tangles. 

Are you one of the many that have trouble

drawing your own strings?

Then this is your book. 

Above is a page that I added tangles to. 

Each page has 4 strings ready for you to

work with. There is a range of string types as well.

Instead of 366 strings (don't forget Leap Year,)

my friend Geneviève Crabe has contributed

12 strings she created which takes the

total to 378 strings.

 This is the first two-page spread.

 Here is my day 84 of The 100 Day Project.

Completed in my Tangle Starts Strings.

Interested in picking up a copy?

Just click here and you will go straight to Amazon.

Day 85 was completed in my

Baby Leda Pocket Sketchbook from

Leda Art Supply.

I traced around a 2" Bijou tile to set

up my boxes.

Then added tangles:

diva dance rock 'n roll,

raid (mine - not stepped out yet) and

printemps.

Ta-da!

I hope you have a great week!

I will be posting a step-by-step of a collage

piece I am working on very soon.

And thank you to every one who emailed me

about the subscriber by email question I had.

Apparently all is working as it should,

so thank you!

Day 80 #the100dayproject #zentangleallaround #ledaartsupply

It is day #80 of The 100 Day Project in my

Baby Leda Pocket Sketchbook.

I hear the string section playing "Hallelujah!"

Tangles include printemps, zone and raid.

And that's day 80.

Please Read:

A couple weeks ago I made some address changes with the blog and apparently that messed up some of the settings. I no longer get automatic emails when you leave a comment on a post. I have to remember to go look for those. And I'm trying to remember - it just sometimes takes me a day or two or five or six.

So don't be discouraged.

Don't think I don't still love you -

because I do.

And quite frankly I'm not all that positive that

for those of you who signed up to get my

posts through email when I make them -

yeah, I don't know if that's working either.

So if you received an email that told you about this post,

can you just leave a comment and let me know that it works, please?

Or you can email me at kenoly2000@hotmail.com

Thanks :)

Have a super wonderful weekend. 

Days 72 - 79 of The 100 Day Project #the100dayproject #ledaartsupply #hahnemuhle #zentangleallaround

 The 100 Day Project

has been long in the making.

Long in the drawing.

And long in coming to a close.

But I can finally see the end in sight.

As much fun as it is to be challenged to 

draw something every single day - - -

I will not be doing this next year.

There is much to be said for INKtober.

With that out of the way -

Day #72 is a page from my 

Hahnemühle

Report & Art Book.

We are doing the project in my Facebook group 

Zentangle All Around

and I am always looking for ways to encourage

the members to keep track of the tangle patterns they know.

The Report & Art Book is one serious good method!

I will be reviewing this book before much longer. 

 For Day #73, it was back to my

Baby Leda Pocket Sketchbook from Leda.

The background color is Comic Shimmer Watercolors.

The highlights are 

Jane Davenport's Mermaid Markers.

Love these markers a ton!

I used tangles - printemps and black tie.

That little gator dude just kind of showed up.

A throw back to our Florida days.

 Day #74, also in the Baby Leda,

also with the Cosmic Shimmer Watercolors,

features tangles barz, pipez, bow petal,

and printemps.

 The rest of these days were done on 

Hahnemühle Bamboo Mixed Media pages.

I did a review of them here. 

Day #75 is above.

 Day #76 was a load of fun and will be

covered in a tutorial (hopefully with video)

very soon. 

 Day #77 features a cross between my

tangle nebula and Michele Beauchamp's

popsicles. 

 Day #78 was a lot of fun with Tombows, 

a plastic tray and water. 

Hopefully this will be a video tutorial very soon.

Tangles - printemps (cause I include this in

literally almost every single thing I draw) 

and a new one I'm working on called Zone.

And Day #79 sees us being caught up.

I think.

It is so hard to stay on top of the days.

This was a fun one using some Wink of Stella

pens I won in a giveaway from Jet Pens.

The 100 Day Project will wrap up on July 11th.

Just click that link and you will be able to read

more about the project.

And if you want to join us on this quest -

it is not too late -

go to this link and you will be able to

join our group.

Have a great rest of your week!

If you are new to my blog,

anywhere you see 'pink' - that means it is 

a link to where you can find that 

pattern or that product. 

And it's easy to remember because

pink=link.

Review Coming Soon #hahnemühle #hahnemühlebamboo

 If you follow my blog you already know -

I love bold, bright and colorful!

Heck!

Just look at my wall!

Hahaha!

I call myself a color artist because it is what

I prefer and it is what I have studied.

Each of the pieces above also have a back side

full of color!

And I'm going to be doing a complete review

soon on these projects I made using

Hahnemühle's wonderful paper -

Bamboo Mixed Media!

Just need to tangle a couple first.

And it's the weekend!

Yay!!!

Although, when you are retired it is always

the weekend!!!

Saturday is the day I post new prompts for

the week in my Facebook group

Zentangle All Around. 

I give them a string to tangle and I thought

I might as well give it to you, too.

You know. 

In case you aren't in my group. 

And if you aren't - why aren't you?

Just messing with ya!

If you are interested, you can check us out

here. 

Have a great weekend!

Days 56 - 63 of The 100 Day Project #the100dayproject #zentangleallaround #ledaartsupply

 I liked it better when I was posting a piece of

art each day for The 100 Day Project,

but life has a way of interfering.

This post will catch you up with everything

I've done through yesterday.

The tangled string above is from the first

page of strings in my new book

Tangle Starts Strings.

Day #56.

The tangle is rain from Zentangle® HQ.

Available on Amazon, there are a total of

378 strings already drawn for you.

All you need to do is tangle them. 

 Day #57 goes back to my 

Baby Leda Pocket Sketchbook.

This technique is one I learned from fellow CZT

Tracy Lake. It involves the use of black gesso.

I was impressed I found a jar in my desk.

 Day #58 was completing a drawing I started quite

some time ago based on an Eni Oken video class. 

You know how I love dragons!

This was drawn in my 

Hahnemühle Nostalgie Sketchbook. 

Some of the tangles include: 

printemps, curlz, shattuck, crescent moon, diva dance, 
coaster and a couple I am still working on.

Day #59 must remain a secret until later. 

Day #60 was part of my Getting Sketchy work

for my Facebook group Zentangle All Around.

Sketchbook work where I was practicing tangles:

membranart, snelly and A-fog.

Apologies to Kathy Redmond.

That tangle on the right is called A-fog 

and it was created by Kathy.

 I recently posted a prompt in Zentangle All Around

for some inked string art. So much fun!

While Kali was here we played with this idea.

This particular spread of pages was made in

my Baby Leda using autumn gold Daler Rowney

Liquid Acrylic.

For day #61, I added tangles printemps, bales 

and betweed to the page on the right. 

 For day #62, I added the tangle printemps

 to the page on the left.

 Here they are together.

Yes, I could have done much more tangling

on these but I really liked the simplicity. 

 And day #63 - was again in the Baby Leda.

I used printemps (of course) and a new 

tangle I've been playing with.

I'm calling it corrogate. 

The 100 Day Project is over halfway complete,

but you can still get involved if you would like to.

You can read about the project here.

And if you would like to join us in

Zentangle All Around

as we do this project together,

just click here. 

You will need to ask to join the group

and I will let you in. 

It is that easy!

Days 69 - 71 of The 100 Day Project #the100dayproject #zentangleallaround #tanglestartsstrings

 The 100 Day Project has been a challenge.

An enjoyable challenge and one to be proud of -

but a challenge all the same. 

Above is day #69 completed in my 

Tangle Starts Strings book.

Tangles from top to bottom:

florz, printemps, black tie. 

 Day #70 was also completed in the

Tangles Starts Strings book. 

Tangles are all boxed up and footlites. 

 Day #71 is the start of a beautiful journey -

I hope. Hahaha!

Hahnemühle sent me a Report & Art Book

to use and review. I am using it to set up

some of my favorite tangles.

An easy reference guide.

Hahnemühle actually has a couple products

that work great for this idea. 

Here is the first completed page in my

most recent book -

Tangle Starts Strings. 

The cool thing about this book is the strings are already drawn for you. 

A grand total of 378 of them. 

All you have to do is pick up a pen and start tangling. 

Many people struggle when it comes to drawing a 'string'. 

That is what you call the line that divides your work area into sections. 

In Tangle Starts Strings I have taken that issue and

handled it for you already.

I am really happy with the way this book turned out.

If you should want to check out the book a little more,

just click here. 

And thank you for looking, I really appreciate it.

Now, on to day # 72 of

The 100 Day Project.

Days 67 and 68 and a Luna #the100dayproject #hahnemühle #zentangleallaround

 I had some fun the last couple days playing with

Schmincke watercolors and 

Bamboo Mixed Media paper from Hahnemühle.

This particular pad of Bamboo is 3.1" x 4.1" - 

small enough to play with and get a feel for

the paper, 

and large enough to actually accomplish something. 

Above is Day 67 of The 100 Day Project. 

Some days color is all I can accomplish. 

And I do love me some bright color!

From the new limited edition 

Schmincke set from Wet Seal, I used:

pure yellow, chrome yellow deep, transparent

orange, ruby red, sap, phthalo green,

helio cerulean, and French ultramarine. 

Went on really smooth with my water brush

and the colors flow into each other really well.

 This piece was really fun!

For day 68, I used AD Markers from Chartpak.

They are an alcohol marker with a really 

strong smell, matched only by their

brightness and boldness.

I love the colors so much!

I thought I would be able to move them around

some with a water brush, but that did not work.

So I pulled out a blender and smoothed out some

lines that way, then used the tip to make

those little corn row shaped patterns over

the rows of color.

Love this one!

 And I got a bonus piece!

My first ever bleed through to make a

bleedthrumanade ala Sandra Strait!

This is the back side and I like it almost

as much as the front.

Can't wait to try some more of this Bamboo

paper with some other types of media. 

Last night Mark opened the door for us to go

outside and this guy flew right in past us.

This is a Luna Moth. 

We had them in Florida and I am always

surprised when I see one here in Maine. 

This Luna was about 6" across the wings.

She posed sweetly for some photos,

then Mark got a step ladder,

caught her and released her back outdoors.

It's been a rough weekend.

Blog issues all day yesterday.

My friend Cindy was able to fix it this

morning and I was sooooo happy!

We grilled hamburgers yesterday -

they were yummy!

We need to do that more often!

Now I'm going to watch some more reruns from

Marvel's Agents of SHIELD

and tangle!

Have a great weekend!