Diva Challenge #308

Diva Challenge #308

 

Again, I have been away for a long time from tangling.  Beset by challenges and problems, I am still trying to fight my way back up.  A few false starts, I pray for a continued ascent from the bottom that I have found myself in.  This is Diva Challenge #308 - a call to go back to your Mac N Cheese tangles.  So that's what I'm doing - gathering the courage to post to the site.  Here's to better days with lots of sunshine!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diva Challenge #263 - Again

Diva Challenge #263 again

Here's take 2.  I really liked this challenge and felt compelled to expand.  Thank you, Diva, for your time and inspiration.

Diva Challenge#263

Diva Challenge #263 - Global grid

And so I return to the real world.  I have not been tangling much - too busy licking wounds.  While chaos closes in on my life, I had for a while abandoned my tangling.  Was feeling like I'd lost all muse.  Picked up my pens again  and ten tons lifted from my shoulders.  Still wasn't brave enough to post for anyone in the world today.  Mary says I'm "braver than I believe, stronger than I seem and smarter than I think."  I'm putting my trust in you, Mary, that you see me as I am.  Happy Days are here again.  Thank you, Zentangle world.  

Diva Challenge #259 A Touch of Irish

 

A Touch of Irish

 

Happy St. Patty's day to all.  On this glorious day, we are all Irish.  After a long hiatus from tangling, I am back.  Projects for Mary's wedding - stamped Thank you cards and hand made envelopes, Wine bottle labels, wrapped Jordan Almonds - a traditional Italian wedding favor, various signage and a few other decorative accents - swallowed all of my free time in the last month.  All are done, including the wedding.  My only daughter has whisked away for a road trip type travel Honeymoon that will span the continent and last for 2 weeks.   So back I fly to tangling!!  Sorry to have abandoned you but never fear, my creative juices have been flowing.  Here is my slightly rusty first tangle in several weeks.  A St. Patty's day tribute of Zentangle gems. (Technique is still very much a work in progress)  Per l'amaro e il dolce - for the bitter and the sweet.

 

 

 

 

Diva Challenge #255 Tangle Journey

Diva Challenge #255

The challenge from the Diva this week was to go back to a tile from your past and see what you make of it now.  Quite the poignant challenge!  The challenge brings to mind a day when I had been looking at pictures of Matt  and then seeing him in the now.  He had been traveling in Australia for several months when I unearthed pictures of him in grade school.  I just missed him so much and spent a few days rooting around, looking at pictures and thinking about him. Out of the blue, he messaged me and we skyped.  When I saw his face come onto the screen with the magic of the world wide inter-web and heard his voice, it occurred to me in a sudden flash, that he was no longer that little boy I had been wistfully looking at a few hours earlier.  When had he changed that much ?
Seems sometimes you have to look at things from a distance to realize the change.

So anyways, on the left,  a tile that I signed on 3/19/15 -roughly a year ago, early in my Zentangle journey.  I did my best to duplicate the string from the original tile - using the light pencil line and tangles for clues.  On the original, I used Mookah, Chillon, Crescent Moon and Eke. 
The second tile, I left out Eke - didn't feel the need to fill every empty space.  Looking at both, I believe I have grown a little.  Not as much as I had hoped when I picked up my first Micron pen.
I had this vision of being Grandma Moses, starting an art career in my old age.  Not there yet, but who knows? Right now, I am satisfied with the peace that tangling brings me, those wistful Zen moments. 

"Whether you think you can or you can't, you are right."

For right now, I think I can.

Diva Challenge #252

Diva Challenge #252 - Tangle in a tangle.

 

The challenge this week was to use a tangle as a string.  I chose Barney, a tangle by CZT Sadelle Wiltshire. I used Printemps, Tipple, Paradox and Static - some of my go to tangles.  Since the getting back to basics challenge, I've been trying to stay true to the concepts that Zentangle was started with.  I have to confess I had gotten caught up in worrying about the end results, planning which tangles to use and really straying from the form that excited me so much when I first started the practice.  Think I have my groove back again and found that this challenge really brought me to that place.  Thanks as always for the challenge, Diva. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diva Challenge #251 - Moebius Syndrome

Diva Challenge #251

This week's challenge  spotlights Moebius Syndrome.  Artoo, the Diva's youngest son, has this medical syndrome and this challenge is taking place during an awareness week for the syndrome.  I feel, from her posts, that I know him even though we have never met.  Being a mother, myself, I know how challenging it is when your child is sick - just the common everyday illnesses are hard, I can't even begin to imagine the challenges that Laura and her family face and overcome.  This is a montangle of  Heart Rope.  The logo was freehanded by me - a little awkward, but it's the thoughts and kind wishes that make the tangle. With every stroke, I wished the Diva and her family good health and happiness.  There seems to be so much joy in their home - that will make the heaviest hardships light.