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Inktober Tangles 2024

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It’s been a couple of years since I last took part in the Inktober Tangles challenge. I feel like a focus for daily (or mostly daily) art is a good idea for me at the moment, so I’ll be doing my best to complete it.

The challenge is hosted by Stephanie Jennifer in the facebook group ‘7F5R Challenge’. This link will take you a file you can download for the challenge.

Today is the first day, it being 1st October. The tangle for today is ‘Ambler‘ by Zentangle Inc..

This is not a tangle pattern I would choose to use in my art; *shrugs* it’s just not ‘me’. However that made it interesting to work with in it’s own right and to explore. I do enjoy exploring variations on a theme and seeing where they lead me.

I did create a video showing the process, and this can be viewed on YouTube. Here’s the link to the video.

Zentangle Pattern “Huggins” Variations … Part 1?

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Click on this link to view today’s video.

One of my YouTube subscribers wondered what I could do with the Zentangle pattern Huggins. I think Linda’s exact words were ‘I’d like to see you take on Huggins’.

So I did. This page is as far as I’ve got for now, which is further than I got in the video. But what else is there to do while a video is uploading and processing?

Huggins is one of my favourite tangle patterns (there are many). It’s always fun to play around with varying the pattern, and it’s a very good one to add variations to!

Not my neatest drawing, but it is in a sketchbook. Sketchbooks are, sometimes, the place to get ideas down quickly as they come to you. And that’s exactly what I did in today’s video.

“Moonberry” tangle fragment for day 18 of the Fragments of Your Imagination Challenge, #FYIC2022

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This is a lovely fragment, just like a blueberry! I enjoyed my morning arty wanderings, coddiwomple if you will, with this tangle as my starting point. It certainly led down some unusual paths that include flowers and seed pods, barnacles and sea anemones, borders and bling, and even a cupcake!

If you’d like to see the video recording of this page being drawn, then click on this link.

My work for Adorable Dogs, my latest coloring book for Creative Haven, is now finished. I’ll soon have to design the cover for the next book. But until then I’ll take a little time out to explore some things and maybe put together a book of mandalas.

But not today. Having to download all of the invoices from Amazon for the 2020-21 tax year, my mind is well and truly fried for a while! Anything to do with accounts tends to stress me out just a tad. Still, it’s done now. And I need to take some time to destress. Art is one way for me to do this. Art for calming, meditation, de-stressing. Just what I need. And another mug of tea!

Draw with me … seed pod motifs

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Today, I spend some gentle time drawing some seed pod motifs. Actually, they’re all variation on one motif. But just one simple difference can have a big effect on their appearance!

Here’s the link to today’s drawing video.