Tag Archives: Zentangle

Sep30

Creative Juice #312

Posted on September 30, 2022 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Interesting articles to read this weekend.

During the middle ages, there was a thriving trade in unicorn horns, which were believed to neutralize poisons. Of course, only royalty and nobility could afford them or even a piece of one. Here’s the source.
So many books, so little time.
A London public art walk.
The messages on this veterinarian’s sign make me laugh.
Cute quilt.
A poem to help you stop procrastinating.
Sorry to say, but Etsy is no longer such a good endeavor.
Hiking as therapy.
Gorgeous murals.
Desert southwest art by William Haskell.
I have always wanted to make a cathedral window quilt.
Zentangle ideas.

Jul31

ICAD2022 Day 61; World Watercolor Month 2022 Day 31

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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One final half-zendala for the last day of ICAD and World Watercolor Month. Patterns used: Brayd, Cat-Kin, MI2, Golven, Laced, Gem.

This year I made a total of 38 cards, far less than the goal of 61; last year I completed 52. I comfort myself with the thought that if I complied with my normal goal of working on an art project on every even-numbered day, I’d actually have fewer products to show.

My cards are evenly divided between the calligraphy practice I did in June and the watercolors I made in July. I love doing challenges like these, because they push me to be more deliberate in my practice. As of this writing, these two cards got the most “likes” on ARHtistic License:

This card got the most likes on Instagram:

That surprised me, because my absolute favorite of the bunch is this one:

And I’m also very fond of these two:

I always enjoy these challenges, and I love seeing what other participants post.

Click to see more ICAD offerings and more WWM paintings on Instagram.

Jul30

ICAD2022 Day 60; World Watercolor Month Day 30

Posted on July 30, 2022 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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This one took me two days again. I painted it yesterday, but by the time the paint dried, I no longer had the brain cells to tangle it. Patterns used: Dutch hourglass, qoo, shattuck, Sweda, Wiking, and gryst.

Click to see more ICAD offerings and more WWM paintings on Instagram.

Jul28

ICAD2022 Day 58; World Watercolor Month Day 28

Posted on July 28, 2022 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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The themes for Week 9 of the Index-Card-a-Day Challege are mandalas, circles, and color wheels, so I chose to make a half-zendala. I actually did the painting yesterday, but I didn’t get around to filling it in with designs until today. The Zentangle® patterns I used are flux, quipple, birds on a wire, onamato, potterbee, and printemps:

Click to see more ICAD offerings and more WWM paintings on Instagram.

Jul11

ICAD2022 Day 41; World Watercolor Month 2022 Day 11

Posted on July 11, 2022 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Today’s ICAD prompt is verdant (an adjective meaning green as with grass or vegetation), and the WWM prompt is center. The prompts made me want to paint something green with a center, which made me think of this flower mandala from Tangle All Around.

#dyicad2022 verdant #WorldWatercolorMonth2022 center

Again, on a three by five card, this isn’t very large. I was able to use the zentangle pattern purk (new to me) on the outer “leaves.”

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Jul10

ICAD2022 Day 40; World Watercolor Month Day 10

Posted on July 10, 2022 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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I’m off-prompt today. I chose a tangle pattern by Tina Chen, Kaleidos:

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Jul9

ICAD2022 Day 38; World Watercolor Month 2022 Day 8

Posted on July 9, 2022 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Today’s ICAD prompt is turquoise and the WWM prompt is bronze. I decided to take those two colors and make a reverse ink blot, then use it as a string for some tangling. The patterns are Hojo by Diana E. Marshall and Bone Dome by Dawn George. Nightmarish, huh?

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Jul3

ICAD2022 Day 33; World Watercolor Month 2022 Day 3

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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Today’s ICAD prompt is quatrefoil or ogee. I had to look those up. I felt that I’d seen ogee worked into zentangle patterns, so I started out by making an ogee grid with onamato. (I used one of my sky fails from yesterday as the background so it would qualify for WWM.) Then I realized that part of the A.L.F. pattern by Anneke de Reijke would fill the ovals nicely.

I think it looks like peacocks playing peek-a-boo.

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Jul1

ICAD2022 Day 31; World Watercolor Month 2022 Day 1

Posted on July 1, 2022 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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For the month of July, I will be participating in both the Index-Card-a-Day Challenge and World Watercolor Month. My intention is to make 31 small watercolor paintings on an index-card-sized piece of watercolor paper. We’ll see how many actually happen. I will used either an ICAD prompt or a WWM, whichever tickles my fancy, or something totally random.

Today I chose a mini-challenge for this week from the ICAD prompts: draw a pattern in black & white, which immediately brought zentangle to mind. My zentangle Facebook group, Tangle All Around, is also participating in ICAD, so I checked out some patterns on their page and selected a new one to me, Ramble by Carolyn Dorfman. I decided to add some color to it with water color paints so it would qualify for WWM.

Ramble — Click to see more ICAD offerings and more WWM paintings on Instagram.

Apr16

N is for Zentangle patterns that start with the letter N

Posted on April 16, 2022 by Andrea R Huelsenbeck

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I’m posting late today. But my taxes are done. Don’t leave yours until the last moment.

One of my goals for this year, which I really haven’t done much about, is getting back to Zentangle with more regularity. Since I couldn’t think of anything else that starts with the letter N that has something to do with the arts or the creative process, I thought I’d go to the wonderful website tanglepatterns.com and see what I could find. Out of the ones listed, I tried these four:

Nine Patch by Suzanne McNeill, which all the quilters will recognize: