Let's take a look ~
The first tile arrived from Simone (Germany) ~
it was a very hard challenge for me. I usually use one size of a tangle and feel good doing it in this way. If I paint it very much bigger or very much smaller, than this is not really comfortable. And now in the end it looks like big old car tire :)
Adele, thank you very much for your ideas.
Tangled Tidbit -
But just look at the depth you created - very nice!
From Joanne (New Brunswick, Canada) ~
Here is IAST 269...Soluna, big & small.
Tangled Tidbit -
*wonderfully weighted lines and darkened spaces
From Jane MacKugler, CZT6 (Vermont) ~
was great meeting up with you at ZenAgain 2018!
Here’s my tile... I cropped it in my photos but it didn’t seem to carry over to my mail. Ah well. It was fun to tangle!
Thank you, Jane, it was great to meet you, too.
*fabulous overlapping and shading
Welcome to IAST, Jane, and welcome to our Tangled Map!
From Sherry Conte (Sanford, Florida) ~
This was a fun challenge full of dimension.
*striking, gradual change in Soluna's size
From Talia Maynard (London, United Kingdom) ~
I managed to jump right onto this week's challenge and get it done really quickly! I genuinely found the tangle this week very therapeutic to draw. As someone who has trouble relaxing and switching off, it really worked for me this time.
I enjoyed the way the large circles contrast against the smaller ones. I think it works really well.
It does!
*sparkled dark orbs, simple embellishments, and tight overlaps add great depth
From Laura Emler, CZT (Ohio) ~
I miss seeing you but was thrilled to meet you at ZenAgain. You don’t meet such kind and creative goddesses everyday!!!! lol. You have a great sense of humor as well as playful!
Here’s my tile for the challenge this week. I haven’t used this tangle before and found it fun. There are so many things to draw inside the circles. Will continue to add more as I go this week.
Hoping to make your map with my name
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*fabulous detail and narrow stream of smaller Soluna complete with rounding
As it turns out, you've been on the Tangled Map since the beginning♥. Your first tile for IAST was for #67 - long before the Map - so I wrote your name, along with all previous contributors, the day I made it. Here is your 'spot' ~
From Maragrete Gilge (Germany) and here on her blog ~
thank you for this interesting challenge. I am not so happy with my Soluna tile because this pattern is not really my favorite and so I placed many different patterns in it. But now it looks a little bit overloaded. Maybe I will try it again. You would find it on my blog under the link
Best wishes from Germany
*grand detail and variation, colors pop against darkened in between spaces
From Sue Leslie, CZT 22 (New Mexico) ~
What a fun play with soluna and 2 green pens in my IAST journal. How different it can be just reversing the two pens. Thanks for sharing a Zen Again idea with all of us. I would love to go to Zen Again one of these years.
Tangled Tidbit -
*light and dark color changes do look vastly different and accentuate the tangle sizes
From Lisette, CZT 32 (Switzerland) ~
Herewith my contribution to IAST #269 with Saluna and a Remo-Border. Thank you, Adele, for the inspiration with doing one side BIG and the other small! In our FB-Group the weekly focus is on Poke Root and Poke Leave. I’m attaching a tile with these two tangles with the same “string-idea”.
Hugs to everyone
*wonderful combination of tangles, color, and sparkle
From Ria Matheussen, CZT (Belgium) ~
Thank you for another unique challenge which I enjoyed very much. I
like the idea to start tangling from two different directions: below on
the left and above on the right.
As you can see on my tile, the tangles also meet in the middle. I
created a few open spaces but Soluna is growing high on the left side
and growing down on the right side.
To finish, I couldn' t resist to take my colourpencils for adding a few
tints of cold colours.
Warm regards from Belgium
*color, white space, light border, dark surrounds - glorious details
From Jutta Gladnigg, CZT (Germany) ~
Thank you for this sunny challenge with its opposites of large and small, light and dark and of direction. I chose a tile which I had distressed with stamp pad re-inkers (therefore this vibrant yellow). There was a natural border between yellow and greenish colours which became my string.
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*Wow! This came together beautifully.
From Priscilla DeConti, CZT 28 (Kingston, New York) ~
Soluna is a great tangle for this exercise. I had fun doing it on one of my colored tiles.
Hope everyone is well. We just had our first snow of season...way toooo early
Have a blessed Thanksgiving all!
Here's to warm and cozy tangling time!
*Tipple filled smaller Soluna and aura for the larger ones
From Nor'dzin (Wales, United Kingdom) ~
Thank you for this most interesting challenge. It was indeed a soothing exercise.
*curve lined detail and shaded overlapping add wonderful depth
From Kate Ahrens, CZT - 1 Art Lady Kate Tangles - (Minnesota) ~
Hi Adele, So much fun to chat with you during ZenAgain. I made some time this week for this challenge using Soluna. I had some fun using lots of variations. Have a great weekend.
And you, too, Kate - it was so good to meet you.
*a fabulous mix of color, highlight, shading, and tangle sizes
A very warm welcome to Elke Puetz (Bremen, Germany) ~
Here is my tangle für IAST#269. It is my very first for your challenge and I enjoyed it so much.
I love to colour my tangles with aquacolours first and than go forward with the Zentangle process.
*tangles accentuated by lovely coloring and highlights
Welcome to our IAST community and welcome to our Tangled Map!
From Sally Whiteman (New Zealand) ~
Attached is my tile for challenge 269. Circles are always a challenge for me, I can never get them round. I guess that all adds to the charm of zentangles.
Yes, and if you think of them as orbs it is much more relaxing to draw them because they don't have to be exact :)
*just a few pops of thicker black add great interest to both large and smaller Soluna
From Gale Sherman, CZT (Tucson, Arizona) ~
Adele, it was WONDERFUL meeting you and having and opportunity to chat at ZenAgain! You are a dear!!! This is the first tile I’ve had a chance to create since I got home. Life = laundry, houseguests, showing them around and teaching = has occupied my time. In this fun mono-tangle I used colored Micron 01s and the colored charcoal pencils we got at ZenAgain and some I bought at the RISD art store. (BTW, If any of you go to Providence stop at this store. I’m sure they’ll have things to tickle your art imagination.) Though the Thanksgiving next week is an American festival, I wish all worldwide tangles Happiness and Peace!
Likewise, Gale, it was a privilege to meet you and being able to visit was an added treat.
*captivating colors and depth
From Susan Theron (Velddrif, South Africa) ~
My contribution...
*stand out striping and shading
From Sra (India) ~
Here're the entries for IAST 269.
I was fascinated by the idea of the challenge. So I couldn't wait to do a tile, but not before practising! The first one is the tile crowded with Soluna. I was happy with it but wanted to do another one that was not so crowded. I thought an even bigger Soluna would be interesting to do. I have something called a Circle Master, which is a sheet of plastic that contains circles of several radii, and I used that for the Soluna in the next tile, from the smallest to the largest, I even made the crescents with those. As always, I wish I could improve the shading, but that's an ongoing endeavour!
Have a nice week ahead!
*grand field of Soluna, darkened spaces add depth
From Dolly Bolen, CZT 15 (Alberta, Canada) ~
It has been a while since I participated in your IAST challenges but I am back! I hadn’t tried Soluna before, it was a nice relaxing tangle to draw, I enjoyed trying to create a different take on it from the step out. My signature bling style had to come out to play, I started a tile I cut from watercolour paper then tissue paper stained which gave a colourful string. Instead of outer radiating lines I drew wavy lines in the Soluna shapes, to give a little different look. I used Sakura Micron PN Pens, Glaze Gelly Roll Pens, Stardust Gelly Roll Pens and Moonlight Gelly Roll Pens plus for extra sparkle Spectrum Noir Crystal Clear Glitter Brush Pen and finally Prismacolour Premier Coloured Pencils to enhance the tissue paper stained colours. The composition in the end made me think of a bunch of yo-yos having a party!
Thank you so much for all you do for the Zentangle community!
*Wow! Great bling, color, and tangles
From Gabi (Germany) ~
The simple things sometimes are very difficult - so have a look at my variation of Soluna. Think I’m going to try some coloured ones to because it seems to be a pattern with many variations!
*delightfully detailed Soluna and deep shading
From VenaC (Whitby, Ontario, Canada) ~
We woke up to white outside yesterday, a really early snowfall. But, later it started raining, a soft rain but, enough to melt almost all the snow. It is dull and overcast outside so no bright light for my pic. Your Thanksgiving will be arriving soon. Have a fun-filled celebration.
Brr! Your weather sounds chilly. Stay warm tangling :)
*various sizes of Soluna pop through and behind multiple border lines
From Hilary (Chicago) ~
Well, I ended up doing two of these. First of all because it’s a fabulous idea, and secondly because I wasn’t happy with my results. I’m not thrilled with either one, but that’s how it goes sometimes. This way I’ll be even more eager to see everyone 's wonderful work!
Wishing you and all our fellow tanglers a happy and blessed thanksgiving
*golden Soluna against a sea of beautiful blue
From Katharina Sasse (Germany) and here on her blog ~
Hallo Adele, Soluna was a true challenge for me, looking so simple and being so difficult to draw satisfyingly.
Tangled Tidbit -
How very fun that you and Hilary chose a similar color scheme, world apart. I love when that happens.
*differences in size, density, and color - great contrasts
From Susie (St. Louis, Missouri) ~
I’m not thrilled with it, but it is what it is. I hope everybody in the path of the California fires is safe.
Tangled Tidbit -
*blackened spaces and border serve to accent Soluna
From Ingrid (The Netherlands) ~
Here is my IAST tile # 269 for this week.
Much love and have a blessed week
*marvelous multitude of Soluna in light, medium, and dark shades
From Jane (Surrey, United Kingdom) ~
Thank you so much for these challenges, it was so nice to do one which you had experienced at zenAgain!
Here’s my tile, I may add more detail to it later.
*added contrast using black and brown, weighted aura, and shading
From Lynn G (Florida) ~
Tangled Tidbits -
*wonderful white 'luna' accents
From Jane Rhea, CZT (Indiana) ~
“By the light of the silvery moon...” Thank you, Adele, for such a fun lunar zen experience!
Tangled Tidbit -
*very fun tangles and nod to the moon (and I love that song!)
From Maike (Germany) ~
Here is my tile for IAST 269 - a nice new experience with the two different sizes of a tangle. I really liked it.
Greetings from Germany
*creative embellishments, bold 'luna', Fescu filled divide - fun!
From Shirley Wohlsen (Queensland, Australia) ~
Attached is my tile for It’s A String Thing Challenge #269
*scattered black rings anchor the tangles and accentuate the contrasting sizes
From Sharyn Penna, CZT (Massachusetts) ~
On the lighter side, my daughter sees wood slices on my tile ... on the eerie side, as I look at this tile I keep hearing Rockwell singing ‘sometimes it feels like somebody’s watching me’.
In this week of thanksgiving, May we all focus on and offer up all the goodness, compassion, and kindness in our hearts. This world needs every drop of positive energy we can all muster up.
Cheers to your always positive energy and cheers for sharing a lesson from zenAgain.
...and Cheers to your positive thoughts!
*wispy enthatching - a lovely variation
From Felicity Strohfeldt (Velddrif, South Africa) ~
Hope you are well and settle back to the routine. As you know my promised routine to myself has once again backfired on me.
But here I go again and here is my effort for challenge 269.
Have a peaceful week.
Tangled Tidbit -
*impressive array of Soluna variations and embellishments
This is my tile. I was in the mood to work small, so I tangled with an 005 Micron on a Bijou tile. A few added aura and just a bit wobbly, but it was relaxing to tangle...
Many thanks to Pegi Schargel, CZT for the lovely Soluna.
Heartfelt thanks to everyone for your wonderful tiles and your patience with me in posting them.
Check back tomorrow for the results of IAST #270 as we get back on track.
Thanks for the round-up, Adele! I did one for the next challenge but did not get around to finishing the shading, though I look forward to the results too. Do give us unusual challenges like this. - Sra
ReplyDeleteThis Challenge was yet another one I didn't get to complete in time. I had a play with the idea in my sketchbook though, and loved it, seriously adored the idea. No wonder you thought we'd enjoy it! I know I will visit it again, using Soluna and other tangles. Looking at other people's tiles has filled me with warmth. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful work, everybody!
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