The bumpy ride home.

Returned to Texas on Monday as Oklahoma was getting hurt so bad with tornados. The ride was bumpy but no issues, just a packed plane. Here's the completed zentangle I started on the flight to Boston.

From the weekend

Last weekend, I was pretty anxious so I spent some quality time tangling. Had some fun sticking some silly animals in the tangles.

Quick post of some black and metallic pens

 I'm trying to convince my 2 year old grandson to wait a minute before we watch 'garbage trucks' on YouTube.

Tuesday trying to work?!

So Red decides she needs a little attention (after being shut in the closet most of yesterday...not on purpose, but because she climbs up and hides on top of something, I don't see her and close the door to get the light off). Now, she's 'helping', right on top of a large 'learning' piece so I'm finishing up a 'betweed' experiment on the side. She hates the camera but hasn't yet figured out the doc camera.

Florz on Sunday

Hummmm, wanted more net. Getting ready for the MAVS to hopefully win against the Heat so I'm thinking NETS. Guess if I was thinking it more, I would have done more basketball-ish. As it is, just another experiment.

Saturday Striping before graduation

 

Hadn't meant to do a bee for striping but here it is. After I did this one, and I'm supposed to be experimenting, I decided to do another striping. Just to play with the twists and turns, shadows and highlights. So a Saturday a Striping I went:)

Friday's Printemps

I thought this one would be easy but it's turned out to be harder than I thought to shade it so it's got some pop to it. It's still just an experiment in variations of printtemps. I tried smaller circles, doing the highlight as I drew the circles, or not, using different pens (used .01, .03, .05 and .08) and filling in with black. I even did a couple of square circles. I think what will be really fun is when I start putting all the tiles together. Now that I've taken the picture, it looks like a finger and thumb and the thumb's exploded:)

Msst and fescu results

Here are the first two tiles with Msst and Fescu. They didn't turn out anything like I expected, maybe because I didn't expect anything. They are for practice. What happens when you do a tile solely with one pattern and just use different pens and variations. I like them and can't wait for tomorrow to do another one.

New Tangle

I've got an iPad at school with a drawing program called QuikSketch. It's so cool cause you draw with your finger and it shades, connects, makes surprises! This may or not be a new pattern since I don't know them all, but this is inspired directly from QuikSketch. Can someone tell me if it's already a named tangle, and if so, what's the name?

The mark in the center is not centered, nor is it a nice round circle. The dashes aren't W's but neither are they nice smooth straight lines. This is the example from the iPad using Quik Sketch.

Tx Tangler tangle

I'm trying to decide which pieces to put in the local Keller School District Art show. This one was done really for my website: sthillen.com but the more I mess with that website, the more frustrated I get. So, I'm using this website and will add more to it then go to the Thillen Art website.

Designs by plan?

One of the best concepts of zentangle for me is that drawing a string on a tile, picking a section and a pattern and filling it in works and turns out great. But, some of the 'best' pieces I've seen are intended to create 'something'. I'm please with the 'somethings' I've done, but prefer the chose a section, fill in the pattern and go method. See the following two pieces. Which do you like best?