A Little More Color

Last night I posted a sneak peek of a project I was working on. Here is the finished art. As a reminder, the colors were washed on first - using a simple watercolor pans kit from the toy aisle at Wal-Mart. You can get some really pretty colors. Then I used a Pitt Artist Pen for the linework. I hadn't used girdy or hibred in awhile. I also used two of my patterns - pipez and crete. You can find the step outs for those two in "My Patterns" at the top of this page. I love Margaret Bremner's copada tangle and use it frequently. 
After I posted last night, someone asked me about crete. That pattern was based on cinder blocks/concrete blocks. There was a time when my children were breaking concrete blocks with a hammer fist in karate, so we have several of them sitting around the yard. Crete looks a lot like those blocks. Why don't you give it a try and see what you come up with?

Fractal Trees Completed

I started work on this project a little over a week ago while I was at Kali's.

This was the first picture I posted. Those trees are a design by Marie Browning, they are called fractal trees. She talks about them in her book Time to Tangle With Colors.

A couple days ago I posted this picture. I took my layout and filled in the layers with various tangles. 

Next I started laying in some color with my Tombow markers. They are a fairly new product for me. Mark gave me a complete set for Christmas,  but I am just now getting around to learning how to use them.

A little more color. Leaning towards a sunset of colors behind those fractal trees.

There you go, there's a closer view.

This will give you a little better idea of what I was working with. This is on Canson, 98 lb, mixed media paper. And, yes, I used every single one of those tombow markers you see laying on the desktop.

Getting close to being finished. Just a little more detail work.

Can you see what I added? Marie calls it haloing. I added a halo around the trees, and around several of the sections down below. At this point I believe this to be complete. Easy enough to do, why don't you give it a try and send me a picture? I'll post it here on my blog :). And if you get a chance, try out Marie Browning's book Time to Tangle With Colors. I carry it in my Etsy store, or you can pick it up online. 
I am linking this post to Jenn's Artist's Play Room over at Just Add Water, Silly. The challenge this week was to do whatever type of art project we wanted to. What perfect timing :). Here you go, Jenn, fractal trees.

Fractal Trees

A couple weeks ago while I was out of town, I posted the beginning of this homework assignment. Pretty much all I had then was the row of reflective trees across the top and some dividing lines drawn down the length of the page. It didn't take me long to fill in the rest of the page with tangles. Now that I am back home, I  need to fill this with color. Once that's done, I will come back and post the finished project for you to see. I'm taking Marie Browning's online class Time To Tangle in Color. I'm learning a lot and loving it! Thanks, Marie!

Mono y Mono Challenge

This past week at Tangles and Stuff, challenge #24 was Mono-Mono. We were to use the same tangle in all portions of our tile. If we used color, we were to stay monochromatic. For my tangle I used Crete - it's one of my own that I've been playing around with.

Here is the step by step for Crete.

I posted this awhile back. Crete comprised the major portion of the background. It can have many different looks, depending on how you use it. Fun challenge! Check it out at Tangle and Stuff here.

Crete - A New Tangle

This is the first time I've posted a pattern I created. 
I've searched and searched the internet and I don't see anyone else using a similar design.

Fairly simple steps, lots of variation possibilities. One immediate point to address is in step 3 - all the corners are drawn in brown - I have no idea why the internet makes some brown and some black. This is an easy pattern to draw. I like to use it for backgrounds and filler.

I drew this last week at Cedar Key. I think I drew it for a challege, but so much has happened since then that I can not remember! The scripture was from the previous Sunday morning.

We came home to Tropical Storm Beryl. What better time could there be to work on drawings? I finished the crete section, and added some color with Pitt markers and Gelly Roll Glaze pens. I also used sunz (my own pattern,) mura for the rocks, kloonz, and beams.

Feel free to check out Crete and see what you can do with it!