Well tangle pattern

Continuing to work on the “Well” Zentangle tile, number 2.

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Here’s just the centre panel of the 4″ square zentangle tile I’m drawing.

Close up, you can see all the imperfections, but I wanted to try to capture the wonderfully luxurious, glistening metallic embellishments.

The bigger, paler dots are gold Sakura Gelly Roll. The brighter gold patterns were drawn with a dip pen and Liquitex Acrylic Ink.

I’ve yet to decide what to do with the turquoise borders, or the golden-brown outer border. And then there’s the wider border around all of this.

Today’s Vlog

In today’s vlog, I share some experiments on adding colour after drawing with the acrylic ink. I wanted to do these first so I didn’t mess up the ink!

It turns out that the ink seems to be pretty resilient to water soluble media, chalky pastels and even matt graphite! Even a pale blue alcohol marker didn’t change the hue much.

So many options, so many possibilities!

Draw With Me… “Well” tangle pattern, tile 2.

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I managed to film some drawing this morning, putting into practice some of the things I learned from yesterday’s ‘messes’, and some kind of successes.

For this tile, I’m using Arteza Everblend markers to add colour, and a humble black ball point pen to add shadow.

Oh, what a difference the ballpoint pen makes. Graphite always feels a bit ‘grimy’ to me, which is fine. But the lines and cleaner grey that can be achieved by the ballpoint pen… well, they’re different.

Anyhoo, here’s today’s video:

Draw with me … “Well” Zentangle pattern, day 3

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My warm up art this morning was to add some pattern to this particular 4″ square tile. I made a couple of booboos, again. Decided to leave them and see what would happen when I added shadow to the design.

I decided to use a brown Micron pen to add pattern to the inner segments, to separate them from the outer edges.

I have to say, I’m not at all sure about this. Perhaps that’s because I know there are booboos in it. It may be because I’ve not added enough shadow, particularly to the brown segments. Or, it could be that I need to do something to help with the confusion of all the borders around the various sections.

I have to think about what to do next.

I did video adding more to this tile, and you can view the video by clicking on this link.