Wow! I never post this early. I killed a tree trying to figure this out before I put it to tile. Because of the complexity of trying to get it right on a small scale, I decided to keep the design simple, with no shading. Just the 3 pens you see in the picture.

And this tile is from the actual class:

Ok…back to the last push on homework…T-18 days till graduation!

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Ok…so Diva’s son thought the Earth needed a name, and he named it Amanda. I think its adorable.

And this is my 2nd year Amanda Day Challenge! I could not decide on just one thing that celebrated my love of nature and our beloved Amanda, so I did a few…Earthy Themes…

The first one, I call Under the Sea. I love water. This is Strathmore Artigain paper, in a greenish tint. Tombow brush pen and Tombow Marker (and Glitter Gelly Roll…of course.)

Ok…so Spring Break is over and there is only another 4 weeks of school. That’s right campers…4 more weeks! I graduate on May 15th and I can resume my life!

I got on board with this week’s Diva Challenge (#212: Use My Tangle – Fanz by Susan Goetter) in a rather weird way. I was testing out a new pen (Tombow MonoTwin) on pink Strathmore Artagain paper…and I initially started with the much fatter end (and was really hating how fat the lines were coming out…duh!) Also, it is an “oil based” marker, so it’s a bleeder! It bled even further through the back of the paper when I did my spray fixative on it. But I cannot say I am displeased with the final result…it looks pretty cool.

Tangles are Fanz, Narwal, Flux, Knightsbridge, Tipple, and Heartburn. I should have the step outs for Heartburn (my first tangle) posted soon.

And I did get Diva Challenge #210: Spiral String finished. Colors a bit wonky for me, I used only the items from this months Art Snacks (http://www.artsnacks.co) box. It is a monotangle of Heartburn. On Fabriano Medioevalis paper (4.7 x 4.7). This paper is really kinda cool, and comes in pre-cut sizes  of flat and folded cards with matching envelopes available. I found it rather cool to tangle on, and I love the deckled edges. Dick Blick carries it, so do most actual art supply stores (not Michaels.)

Ok…so it’s Spring Break…my senior year in college (never mind that I am basically a senior citizen….) and what am I doing? Tangling…and cleaning my house. Go figure…

So Laura (The Diva) left us with just Flux as our prompt (feel better soon to Artoo…poor little guy.) I am working on some samples for a class/meet up in April, so I used one of my wine dyed tiles to turn out this gem. Flux both ways!

(Can’t leak about the wine coloring until later…don’t want to spoil the class!)

That’s all for now…

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Happy Belated St. Patricks Day!

This week’s Diva Challenge (#209) was to “Make it Green.” I am currently experimenting with various colored liquids (coffee, tea, wine) and stencils to pre-dye tiles and use the stencils for my string, so I decided to try one of my green tea applications and Jenny Perruzzi’s  Zencils stencils (get them on etsy.com) Can’t tell you my methodology yet, working it up for a class…shhh…top secret.

The whole tile is done in Gelly Roll pen this time. I laid down the metallic green first, and discovered my trusty Micron didn’t like it, so I broke out the black Gelly…and ta-da…it worked great. tried to shade with a Tombow and blender, but that smeared a little, so went with General’s Chalk Pastel Pencils instead.

Off to prep some more tiles!

Oh, and study for an Exercise Physiology test…

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I’ve been a bit hard pressed to find much time to tangle lately, but I seem to have been pretty productive anyway…

So this week’s Diva Challenge (#208) is Duotangle: Cubine vs. Pokeroot. Now…I have not ever done any Pokeroot before, so this was my maiden voyage with that tangle. I also made a trip to Artist & Craftsman Supply over the weekend and acquired a set of Sakura Moonlight Gelly Roll pens, so I was dying to try them out. Unfortunately, the fluorescent colors did not scan as bright as they look in person….oh well…

Last week, I didn’t get #207 finished in time, but here it is now: Use My Tangle (UMT) Unbatz by Sandy Hunter. Got a little Narwal in there, and I don’t know what the heck the other thing is. I actually used a string from TanglePatterns.com for this (#146) and it is a bit strange….lol…like me I guess.

Ok…this weeks Diva Challenge (#206) asked us to use something you don’t normally use, or expand our horizons. I had it all planned out…the huge piece of beautiful Rosapina has been on my work table for weeks, I have it all planned out in my head. I started it…and it is now cut up into smaller tiles, as it really didn’t work out the way I wanted it. (tried rubber-stamping words…not a good idea while you are on a conference call…)

So…I reverted to something else I figured as a semi-failed attempt a while back. I watercolored a few errant pieces of water color paper with the salt process and some cool Niji pearlescent watercolors, and when they were done, I didn’t know what to do with them. They were so pretty, they intimidated me. So, I whipped out the least intimidating one (purple and grey) and the associated Tombows, and tangled away. I just got my Tombow markers recently, and haven’t really used them much, and I have never really shaded with color, so this was a grand experiment.

I did mount it on a black tile, I thought it looked nicer.

Squeaking in under the wire…and back to homework.

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Slow week, not a lot to report…

Diva #205 gave us the prompt of Chinese New Year (Year of the Goat.) So…I found a lot of sheep that looked like goats…and goats that looked like sheep. Tried to keep a it a bit simple I guess, Found a cool vector graphic of the sheep and used it as my focal (traced, kinda, drawn, kinda) and thought it needed the red and gold colors I always see in pretty Chinese things.

Happy New Year!

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