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| This exquisite artist's studio in Florence, Italy, was just the width of the doorway. Photograph by Adele Bruno, CZT |
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| IAST #197 String by Adele Bruno, CZT |
Thank you for letting me discover Plingh!
I did so much enjoy- Indrani Novello- Tangle pattern ‘Plingh’
I started with the string in the position you had it drawn, Adele, but after completing my tile I accidentally scanned it side on, as it can be viewed from any angle and I liked it the way I had scanned it I went with it that way.
Attached is my side on view of - It’s A String Thing #196 – Challenge.
Good morning Adele,
Congratulations on your "baby's" graduation! You've got a wonderful looking family and I'm sure they bring you much joy.
I really liked this week's pattern, so thanks for the opportunity to use it. And once more, thanks for all your hard work and the hours you must put into these challenges.
It seems as if summer has finally arrived here in the UK – the temperature is rising, long sleeves are swapped for short, but also comes the forecast that its only set to last for a couple more days! But I think the sun cast its spell on my tile for this week.
As soon as I saw Plingh I knew my black pen would be in for a lot of work. I chose a tile I previously coloured with distress inks, hot shades in a palette I don't usually work with. A bold band of Plingh right across the middle, and a little more in the corner. A dash of shading and a few tiny spots of white and there it is. It reminds me of a small red palm tree we used to have, and the incredible shadows it cast. And also of the tie-dyed skirts I wore when I was younger and how their colours would sometimes bleed onto my skin.
Buongiorno! I feel we are still touring Italy :)
Not happy with my colours but I do like my monotangle.
Here is my attempt at 196.
Congratulations on your daughter Isabella's graduation! What a cheerful day it must have been to have all your children together with you on that day. And I can imagine they make you a very proud mom!!!
Thank you for the next episode of your Italian adventures. Love to read them. You ended the last post with a thrilling clifhanger. So curious who was calling you and your husband..........?????/
In the attachment my IAST # 196 tile for this week. A light and airy one it has become.
In The Netherlands finally we have some hot and lazy summer days which I am enjoying very much.
Great choice this week. I love monotangles. Why? Because I don’t have to think about what other tangles to use. Choosing is so hard when we have thousands of beautiful tangles to pick from. All in all I made 4: a red, a blue, a white and one on recycled paper. I couldn’t decide which one to send to you so I made my webpage first to look at them in one setting. à I got stuck at red and blue.
To make life easy for me, I send you both and let you decide which one to place with all the other entries.
Thank you so much, Adele, for yet another great weekly challenge.
I liked the string for this challenge. Got me out of my comfort zone of tangling small. I enjoyed learning #Plingh.
Thank you and have a wonderful holiday weekend!
Thank you for the challenges. I enjoy seeing all the contributions.
Congratulations to Isabella on her graduation! I loved the picture of your children. They are all beautiful and handsome like their parents. You are so blessed.
I am loving your stories of Italy and how you are teasing us and keeping us on the edge of our seats for the next installment! I so feel like I am right there with you on the journey. What an wonderful trip. So happy you were able to take it and also that you are sharing it with all of us.
Please find my #196 tile attached. I decided to go tan this week…
Plingh is an interesting tangle, and this was a fun string! Here it is with Fe-Ba and Crescent Moon. Thanks for all you do for us!
First, thank you for sharing a picture of your beautiful family! It's nice to put faces to tangle names!
Second, Your Paper Pilgrimage is such a treat ... can't wait for the next installment! And are you planning another trip?
And this week's prompt ... I (obviously) went with a light and dark tile ... two reasons ... it's something I've been wanting to try my hand at and I think it reflects the climate of the world this week.
Microns 01 and 08 (for all that background), 2B and 4B graphites, white gelly roll pen and white charcoal pencil.
The red background sits on your beautiful frame ... the tile sort of melted into the frame without the contrast.
Sending warm thoughts to all the hearts breaking all around the world. Stay safe friends!
Dear Adele and everybody,
Plingh was definitively a chalenge for me. I did several attempts, black on white, with color, etc. But I liked the white on black best, it’s kind of “lacey” (a word which probalby doesn’t exist…) I mean lace like. An it fits to the beautiful summerweather we are enjoying in Switzerland. And thank you for your posts from Italy!
I don't often find myself interested in monotangles, but this new pattern by Inadari Novello has, as Adele said, myriad possibilities and I enjoyed exploring five of them.
Sarah Fowler's nod to Heath Robinson as an inspiration for her Strutz design, and subsequently Linda Farmer's reference to the Rube Goldberg machines, got me thinking about IAST #195 and what those three circles might look like in one of their cartoons.
And then, will wonders never cease, I ran across this old illustration of an invention entitled The Wave Machine by Professor Algenon Gildenstern, reproduced in a badly abused copy of the little known publication, "The Journal of Non-Granted Patent Applicant Apparatus Vol. I: Abstruse thru Inane". And, amazingly, there were the three circles!
Now, I may not fully understand the Professor's process or purpose and, based on the size of the rodent on the left and the lackadaisical attitude of the cat, I'm not sure he wouldn't have been better off trying to build a better mouse trap. But I can certainly appreciate that he added a flag to the waving hand, in honor of our upcoming Memorial Day. A safe holiday to all, and let us remember those who have served.
(By the way, pay no attention to the name at the bottom. That is not the signature you're looking for...)
ma participation pour ce nouveau challenge
bonne semaine à vous
Thank you for this week’s challenge! My goal was to keep things simple and clean - a counterbalance to a busy time. I simply wasn’t in the mood for a grid pattern so I just left it out. Hoping you are enjoying a good week.
I didn't get to finish a tile in time for last week's challenge but I'd like to say how much I'm enjoying playing with your new tangle Trella. It has so much to offer - and as soon as it comes together into a coherent form on a tile I shall of course share it with you!
And so to this week - which took an unexpected turn when I immediately began to see columns of Strutz holding apart swirling banks of Printemps. I grabbed some strange and hard to work on paper, which had a suitably ancient feeling to it. A tiny nod to Tessell on the columns! I think my tile is more than a little influenced by the fact that I was reading this week about how Galileo tried to calculate the dimensions of Hell based on Dante's Inferno!
What a fun challenge! I love it when the tile goes a completely different direction without me realizing it until I'm done! As I was drawing, I kept think about my Dad when he would work in his wood shop or on one of many vehicles...definitely shows in this tile! Sure do miss the smell of sawdust and engine oil...and I do miss him, but this tells me he is still watching me!
Another set of wonderful tangle patterns, I’ve enjoyed each one.
Recently I purchased a set of Sakura Micron 01 coloured pens,
So I’ve taken this opportunity to try them out.
Attached is my entry in ‘It’s A String Thing’ #195.
Thanks Adele
I’ve been reading with interest of your wonderful trip to Italy,
What a great time you have had, As you have used Fabriano Paper,
It must be a great honour for you to be where it’s actually made.
Love all the pictures you have taken.
Thank you, Adele, for sharing your fabulous trip with us.
Thank you for another fun challenge Adele. Sure wish I had Fabriano paper to put on my fabulous IAST frame. 😊
It's not quite what I had intended when I started, but isn't that the way things go?
Thanks and take care.
.....here is my contribution for this week....
Wow Adele! How did you ever drag yourself away from the fabulous Marchese del Grillo hotel? Talk about a dream location! Needless to say, I am totally enjoying your photos and can't wait to see more.
I was a bit stymied by this week's IAST, and had to make two different attempts at it. Neither one turned out quite the way I wanted, and that's all I'm going to say!Every time you add your explanation to a tangle pattern I learn so much. You've got a real talent for making things clear and interesting!
Finally was able to participate again. Thanks for the challenges.
I am early for a change! I am heading to Kripalu in the Berkshires this weekend for a Zentangle class with Rick, Maria, Molly and Martha..so excited!!!
Your Fabriano emails are just wonderful. I feel like I am right there with you the way you are describing it and showing the pictures. Thank you for taking us on your journey with you.
Here is my 195 tile. Strutz by Sarah Fowler, one of my dear friends from Mosaic, is a favorite..had to make sure I got this one in before I left.
I had so much fun with this tile! A few days ago I saw some images with amazing sculptures that looked as if they where floating, so as soon as I saw the string for this challenge and that it had the pattern "Strutz" I thought it would be fun to try to simulate a sphere sculpture hold in place by the "Strutz" supports. Then I thought why not try to make a whole inside the sphere with the other circle-sphere on the string! I don't know if I added all the shading to create the initial idea correctly but I can tell you I really enjoyed the process ;-) It is a little hard to see in the picture but the brownish area is filled by very thin tiny "Printemps". Thank you Adele for another great challenge and I loved reading your posts about your trip!
Greetings from Canada
here’s my contribution to IAST#195. I also posted this together with some comments on the process here on my brand NEW WEBSITE!!!!! (Link)
A CZT needs an appropriate website for sure!!
I also made an interesting experience (as it is in the books) with a “mistake”. I wrote a blogpost here (Link)
First of all thank you so much for letting us take part in your marvelous tour through Italy! Such an interesting report with beautiful photos! Makes one want to follow your footsteps!
This week's challenge was great fun because it did not only contain Sarah Fowler's cool new pattern but gave me the chance to present this week's challenge on a tile handmade by Sarah herself. Sarah is famous for cutting her own tiles and sometimes she glues small coloured blank paper discs onto them. Some weeks ago she sent me this blank handmade Zendala tile - white with a chocolate brown little Zendala disc attached onto it. I had not used it so far and was quite astonished that this tile exactly represented the string of IAST 195... So here it is... Big honour to draw this challenge onto a tile handmade by the originator of one of the selected patterns!
The original chocolate brown shines though from behind printemps, the rest of the small disc was coloured with red chalk.
Buongiorno Adele!
Living vicariously here in my humble little town filled with endless days of spring rain and vacuuming water from the basement ... I can't get enough of the recounts of your trip to Italy and all locations near and things related to Fabriano! Breathtaking and awestruck! I'm on pins and needles waiting for the next account!
So somebody pinch me! I'm ready to say ... I attended CZT27! (Thank you, Adele, for keeping the secret ... and for offering us all IAST ... I might not have ever gone on the tangly adventure had it not been for your prompts and positive reviews of everyone's tiles every week!). To everyone who is thinking about attending the CZT seminar ... its a true experience to behold and such a gift to yourself!
On to the prompt ... it took a few practice pages in a journal to get Tessell... my had wanted to draw the pattern Well. But now, I'm thinking of my 2017 Christmas card! And Strutz just might be in the card too! Can't want for the prompt reveals! And I can't wait for the next installment of the Paper Pilgimage!
Saluti tuti y ciao Bella!
Attached my tile for the IAST 195 challenge. I didn’t think much about what to do with 3 circles and this weird tangle Strutz. However, in the end my tile turned out rather funny…sort of like a Mars capsule thanks (!) to that weird tangle Strutz.
Have to say, I would have never ever used Strutz of my own choosing in ANY of my tiles, so I am glad you did that for me. Thanks for a fun challenge, Adele.
This challenge did indeed challenge me! My brain just could not get wrapped around Tessell and I'm not sure why. I finally decided this was the best I was going to get (time running out) and just went with it. I love the string and I may go back and do another later on. Thanks again for another wonderful challenge.
Loving all the stories and photos of your trip - you look like you were in heaven! :-)
Here is my attempt for IAST #195.Thanks for the great blog, challenge, patterns, commentary, etc. I admire all that you do. I especially love your "Tips"; I can't tell you how many times those have been very helpful to me as I struggled with a pattern.
What a brainblowing challenge! I liked all suggested tangles , but I saw no possibility to fit in Tessell, so a duotile it has become and Tessell has to wait for some other time to play with.
I enjoy reading your wonderful Italian adventures so much! And thank you for making me and your whole IAST community a travel partner with you.
Wow, this is different! I feel as though my tangle this week could have
a starring role in 'War of the Worlds'!
Your trip sounds even better each time you tell us more, fabulous! I think I should have stuck with black and white for some reason I'm not happy with the colours maybe it's because the shading doesn't look good with my colours?
I used metallic colored pencils to differentiate where the #strutz began: Silver: small circle, Copper: middle circle, Blue: large circle, Mauve: edge of perimeter. It looks a little crazy, must have been influenced by the day I had at work (wink)
It's a String Thing challenge this week included a special treat for me! The challenge features my good friend and artist, Sarah Fowler's "Strutz" pattern. I've played with it many times but never completed a tile featuring Strutz. Of course, being in a pretty big artistic slump made forcing the tiles uncomfortable. That said, I love her pattern and its hollibaugh effect. It's funky bends and embellishment possibilities make it lots of fun to play with. Sarah is an amazing artist and such a positive person, it was a real pleasure to feature her art and story on my blog a few weeks back!
Strutz was a perfect fit for this week's string and it works great with Maria Thomas' Printemps. I'm hopeful I can relax enough to get next week's tile finished before Saturday night!
Loved hearing about your trip to Italy! Here's this week's tile. Tessell was a bit of a brain-teaser, but I think I got the hang of it. Strutz was very fun, and I will definitely use it again. And Printemps is one of my go-to tangles. Wishing everyone a great week!
Well, I just can't wait to see what our inventive tanglers come up with for this week's challenge. The patterns were great, but for three days my brain spun in circles (not unlike the string) trying to figure out what to do. And then ...
In Tile #1, while the smaller Strutz keep the string circles in place, the giant Strutz is attempting to keep the large Printemp from springing up as have the smaller ones at the bottom. And Tile #2 ... I was so much enjoying the single Tessell whirl-y-gig with its streamers flying in the wind as it spun, when all of a sudden these big Strutz rushed in and pushed the two large circles off to the side, squishing all the pretty Printemps into the corner. What's up with that? Huh? (When serious tangling there is none, with pen and and paper then have some fun!)
I'm so loving the details of your trip and the wonderful photos, Adele. I can feel your joy and passion floating out to us like a warm Italian breeze. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much for all your posts on your magnificent trip to Fabriano - I have enjoyed reading every one of them as well as all the interesting information about the paper you have shared. Please keep them coming!
This is my first IAST tile since my return from CZT#26 seminar in Providence - I am thrilled to be part of this global community of tanglers that connects people of all nationalities! There have been so many interesting things to follow up on since seminar but now it was high time to return to your challenge. Both Strutz and Tessel were new tangles for me - thank you for the inspiration.
Thank you for sharing the fascinating information about Fabriano paper history ...it makes me feel very privileged to be using their products.I am glad you had such a great experience. It is a while since I did a challenge...but I did do all kinds of tangling in the interim!
Thank you to the creators of the tangles too!
Tessell did not want to play along so I decided to use Printemps. This was a fun experience.
Thank you for introducing me and my students' efforts in the article "Wednesday's Words of Wisdom" (Link) . In April I tried zentangle as a sample of stair art at the entry entrance to a new student, and as a result I came to welcome 15 new members. It was the start with the largest number of people ever. The idea of tangling of junior high school students is interesting whenever they see it. I feel the depth of the zentangle. From now on, I will continue to pursue more and more myself, I want to return it to my works and students. This article was very encouraging. I'm really thankful to you!
And…here is my tile for your weekly challenge.
