Tangle challenges and other stuff

This week in my house we are making slow progress with the bathroom renovation. Lots of action last week but nothing so far this week. The floor tiles are down and then  ...... we wait.

I've hit the super busy part of term, with marking and reports. Some of my students have produced brilliant work while too many have not submitted their current assignment. It's soooo frustrating when students don't hand in work. They are capable if they just put a bit of effort in.

BoyBoy is part way through a 3 day workshop at the Australian National University's School of Art. This workshop is for prospective students to come and try out all the facilities. BoyBoy is loving it. This is where he hopes to study next year with the aim of becoming a sculptor. 

Diva #318 - Diptych

I haven't seen the Kitchen Table Tangle for this one so I'm relying on what the Diva and other Tanglers have done to help me understand the challenge.

I made 3 tiles, with the final one being the only one I like. If anyone can identify the Tangle I used in the hinge for my 3rd tile, I'd much appreciate it. Mariet used it on a ZIA that she showed on her blog this week.

Here are my tiles.

Other drawing

Not much time or energy for drawing at the moment. I will catch up with the Made by Joey challenges soon. I've come too far to stop now.

Here is an Opus tile that I've been working on. It's based on a image of the Winter Solstice that I've seen variations of online. Hopefully I'll finish it over the next week or so. So far it includes Poke Leaf, Gnarly and Hollibaugh.

This week's Kitty Pic

This is Arthur sleeping under the covers of the bed in the study/ art studio. It's his favourite place on winter evenings, even when I'm not in here drawing or working. 

Have a great week and thanks for dropping by.

Miss L

Tangle challenges and other stuff

Not much drawing going on at the moment. Lots of other things though, including a couple of days off school with my first cold of winter. A few days of quiet, Netflicks and napping helped that. 

Continuing to work with my personal trainer. He was in the gym this afternoon while I was doing one his circuits. That made me work just that bit harder, so hard my arms were jelly for some hours afterwards. The gym continues to be a happy place for me.

Diva #317 - Photo challenges

This is a completely new technique to me. I have created two tiles for the challenge without looking at anyone else's work beforehand other than the Diva's tile. It will be interesting to compare my approach to that of other Tanglers.

I think my group of Zentangle Apprentices will enjoy this challenge too. Check back here in a few weeks so I can show off what they come up with.

Here are my tiles.

Other drawing

Not much happening in that area. I did spend some time with a stencil. This stencil creates paint splatter shapes.

Bathroom renovations

Our house is 16 years old and in need of a bit of an update. Our ensuite bathroom is our first major project. We are not doing any of this ourselves. We have neither the skills nor the time. The main bathroom comes next.

Monday

Thursday

Autumn colour

Our street trees are all Manchurian Pear, I think. Ours develops a lovely glow when the afternoon sun hits it. Lovely. 

Kitty Pic

Thanks for all the well wishers for Arthur. He has fully recovered. Note to self - don't get his nails clipped again. Here's Himself attacking a duster. I got the duster out after the dust from our bathroom reno covered every surface in my bedroom.

Have a great week and thanks for your comments. They make my heart sing.

Miss L

Zentangle drawing

On Sunday I bought myself some stencils to use with my Zentangle art. You'll see evidence of these below in my Diva Challenge, Made by Joey challenge and in my other drawing. 

Today is my day off work - my health issues limit me to teaching only 4 days a week.

Today I'm:

• drawing and blogging
• driving my son to college - he could catch a bus but his bed is soooo warm and I'm such a good mum, yadda yadda yadda
• catching up on marking and lesson planning
• going to the gym for a 30 minute session with my personal trainer, Nick. My weight is not budging but my size is going down. I now see the gym as a place to unwind and relax, even though I 'unwinding' means I push myself to jelly legs state each time.
• Going to school in the afternoon so I can run a Google Apps for Education professional learning event for staff. This is a new, exciting and unexpected direction for me and I'm loving it.
• Having play time with Arthur the cat.

Stencils

Here are the stencils I bought on the weekend. Looking forward to seeing what I can do with them.

Diva Challenge - #316 - stripes

This was fun. And how suited to the brick stencil!

Made by Joey

This week is the letter T which brings me Tamisolo, Tessell and Tattle.

Other drawing 

Followers of the Zentangle App would have seen a recent Kitchen Table Tangle about Dingbatz. Here's one I drew in my Zentangle Journal. I continued to play around with Molygon.

Zentangle + Spray Mists + Zentangle Primer Reticula + Stencils = these tiles

Kitty Pic

Here's Arthur getting in the way - again - this morning. Me sitting at my desk or computer obviously means time for cuddles. 

Arthur update

Had to take Arthur to the vet this morning for an emergency visit. His dew claws were bleeding. Not badly but enough to need attention. The vet thinks he was climbing a tree after getting his nails clipped last week, he slipped, scrabbled for a hold, then partially shredded his claws and took skin off the pads of his dew claws. Sounds worse than it is, although Arthur would still like lots of sympathy. Here's a pity pic.

Have a great week and thanks for dropping by.

Miss L

Diva twice this week

Thanks so much for the comments on my post yesterday. Much, much appreciated.

Deanne said that my first tile is reminiscent of Shelly Beauchamp's work. That is such a compliment. Shelly is actually the only CZT that I have met in person. I've spent a couple of days with her twice in the last two years. My next visit is coming up in under 2 months. It is so lovely to me that someone can see her influence in my work.

Diva #315  - again

Couldn't resist playing some more with Molygon. And besides, I had to post again to put up my Made by Joey challenge.

Here's today's tile.

Made by Joey

This week the letter was S and the feature tangle was Sandswirl. I added Showgirl, Shattuck (one of my go to tangles) and Skwirl.

Arthur Weasley the cat

Here's a photo of my adorable kitty Arthur Weasley. He's playing in the cat tunnel. We bought this tunnel many years ago for Dobby when he was a kitten. The next cats - Luna then Arthur - love it. They chase each other through and around it.

Both cats are off to the groomers for some cleaning tomorrow. Arthur's white feet are not white and Luna just be bothered with the whole grooming business. She does like having it done for her. 

Cheers

Miss L

Tangle challenges

This week.  Mmmm. Busy. It was my birthday last weekend. Cancer fatigue is making its presence felt. Not much drawing happening. Work is going very well. Totally loving my school (I've only been at this one since Feb this year). Hundreds of spring bulbs planted and a couple of camellia bushes. Binge watching 'Life below Zero' and 'Brooklyn 99' on Netflix (one is observational reality TV, the other a sitcom). Re-reading the Harry Potter series for the many-ith time.

Diva #315 - Molygon

This is a tangle I have tried numerous times since it was introduced early last year but not to my satisfaction. If I get the shapes OK, I stuff up the fill or the other way around. This time I watched the Kitchen Table Tangle video. I also paid more attention to my take offs and landings.

My first tile is my attempt at closely following the video (afterwards, not during as that has proven impossible for me in the past). While it doesn't look like Maria's I'm still quite pleased with it. Maybe I've got the knack of this tangle now?

Following this success I created another tile. So brave of me. For this one I went to the Molygon step outs to get ideas for filing them. I ended up filing them with a sort of Flux. I then added Tropicana as a ribbon to finish off, with little bits of Molygon escaping. 

Made by Joey

I haven't done this one yet. I'll get there later in the week.

Other drawing

I played around with the new tangle from last week's Diva challenge (can't remember what it was called) and an ensemble. It looked better in my head than in reality. Oh well.

Thanks for dropping by. I do visit lots of your blogs but don't leave comments as often.

Miss L

Tangle challenges

Not too much drawing happening lately. I've been busy gardening,  or rather shifting 2 cubic metres of mulch from the driveway so I can get my car in and out of the garage.  Finishing up tidying up the garage. And lots of school work. I'm teaching units that I've never taught before so it means I need to do more reading and planning than usual. 

Diva #314 - Scallamps

This is a new tangle for me. It does fit into my style of drawing. The tile below is one I started on the weekend, before the Diva released her challenge. I thought Scallamps fitted in nicely.

My 'tile' (A4 card) includes: Mooka, Rixty, Ellish and Scallamps with a little Crescent Moon and Tipple in the middle.

I'm finding that I rarely use the traditional Zentangle tiles these days. I'm more likely to use an Opus tile or some A4 artist's acrylic paper. I'm also very rarely using strings.

Here's my tile.

Made by Joey

This week is the letter R. Looking forward to getting off the alphabet and out of this hand made journal. The paper today decided to stretch and thin when I added a small amount of mist spray. Ahhhhh!

The tangles were simply Rysa, Rixty and Rain Dotty.

Other drawing

I've been playing around with Crazy Huggins recently, after working out how to control it. I now complete each segment before drawing the dots for the next.

This A4 'tile' includes: Huggins, Crazy Huggins, Rixty and Mooka, with Knightsbridge, Flux, Flukes Bubbles and Printemps inside some of the Crazy Huggins.

Fitness

A new personal best: I'm pushing 60kg on the sled. Legend!

Have a great week and thanks for dropping by.

Miss L