Sunday, May 20, 2012

tangling in color

Wow, its been almost a week since I checked in here. I have been not sewing at all this week and just tangling here and there as I try to gear up to pack and launch the summer plans. I also got caught up in a couple of books and just went ahead and burned through those so I could move on with other things. I am not super patient when it comes to pacing myself reading. When I get into a book I really like with characters I am interested in I really become preoccupied with their fate and have a hard time putting  the book down. Better to rip right through it and reach the conclusion so those questions stop bothering me. Then I can go back at my leisure and revisit all the fine details with 20/20 hindsight, so to speak.

Anyway, Laura over at the Diva challenged us to use a color, sepia to be specific, in our tangling this week. It is ironic that just a couple of weeks ago I made a special stop at the hardware store to raid the paint chips for possible tangling purposes. I used a white Jelly Roll pen on this chocolate brown one and really like the effect. Unfortunately I tried a Micron on a different color and brand of paint ship and the ink would not dry. It remained smudgable. Too bad! I haven't had any more time to play with pen and chip combinations to find ones that work together - but I love the idea - paint chip colors are always so appealing to me - especially in to store where they are all arrayed where you can see them at the same time! In the case of this chocolate coco chip by Behr I think the Inapod was inspired by thinking of cocoa pods.


Of course I also had to try the new Zentangle pattern Pea-nuckle when the directions came out this week. It was a toughie for me, hard to predict at first. Definitely one to practice in order to learn how it will grow so it can be incorporated into the whole. I do like the final result of it when it takes on the look of a spiral. I tried to capture the spiral ends coming through holes in framing pieces of paper... like stitches holding something together. I shaded it with a brown pencil to retain the color difference. I got lucky this week in that just in time for the challenge I ran across a set of Copic Sepia pens and also a set of Copic ash gray pens on clearance. So now I have both colors to play with.


6 comments:

  1. Never would have thought to tangle on a paint sample, very creative. Your 2nd tile is amazing. Your pea-knuckle is perfect. alcove the laced effect! Nice work!

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  2. I love your rendition of Pea Nuckle! It's wonderful how the two shades of sepia work so well together!

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  3. Love this...hope to find time this week to play around with Pea Nuckle.

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  4. Both tiles are nicely done.... but the 2nd one of out-of-this-world fabulous! Everything about it sings. The design, use of color, variation of the tangle, shading...... all exquisite!!!

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  5. I love what you did with the pea-nuckle leaping off the paper!

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