It's been a crazy week - a fun week, but busy. I always help out a friend for Mother's Day week at her flower shop, so in addition to Cows-n-Corn mornings, and Somerville Post Office/general store on Thursday, I worked afternoons and Saturday at the flower shop. And today, after church, I worked at the lavender shop. I don't make much, but I do love the variety! Here's some highlights from the flower shop!
I am a CZT now! I feel such elation and also a sense of responsibility to the ceremony we know as Zentangle.
This week's Diva Challenge was an Earth Day (or Amanda Day, see her post) representation. We don't usually do representations in Zentangle but we do make exceptions as needed, because we can! I did this in bed last night with 4 dogs bumping me, so there are lots of extra wiggles. But here it is anyway.
I'm catching up on Diva Challenges and made an Easter greeting card at the same time. This week the tangle challenge was to use Rick and Maria's "flux". My Flux is a combination of both styles. What can I say? That's what Zentangle is and that's what Flux does!
BTL Joos just grows and grows and is hard to contain. I had to cut some thorny weeds last week when this challenge was issued, it grew around twisting in to everything in its path. When I finally sat down to tangle a spiral, that is all I could think of! So, here it is!
Using cubine and poke root. And a little poke leaf. This was a fun and fast one. Thanks Diva! I used a micron 05 for almost all of this tile.
I'm really getting psyched for CZT#18 now. The practice over the past couple of months has boosted my confidence. I have learned a lot about my self, my surroundings, my limits, ... a lot of surprising insights through the process of this thing called Zentangle. It definitely deserves to have copyright status for the process. I can't wait to start sharing this with others.
Collaboration with my father... I have been putting this off because I wanted perfection. But as soon as I let it go and just did this project, I am ready to do another!
My father is a hobbies photographer. His work is outstanding and HE is a perfectionist! So, I understand why I wanted to do my best. I had double prints made of a couple of his florals, two, just in case. ;-)
Ultimately, this is what I did. Without good lighting. In one evening. In bed. When I let the perfectionist go, I let her go!
So here it is and I am ready to do it again!
