Ah! Time to catch up with this week's tiles. Last week's really - and I think you will agree that they are exceptional.
We used Maria Thomas' new Doodah along with Jem Miller's Kitl and a very loopy string.
Let's take a look ~
The first tile arrived from Karen Aicken (Alberta, Canada) and here on her blog ~
Here is my entry for IAST 298. I traced a Zentangle tile into my sketchbook and used a blue/black PN pen with some gold gel pen too. I think Doo Dah is going to be lots of fun! Not crazy about my tile, but I enjoyed the process so …
*wonderful overlap of tangles and detail of Kitl
From Sara BK (Australia) ~
I struggled a bit with Kitl until I turned it into a flower... quite happy with how they turned out.
*pretty aura and layering of Kitl
From Amy L, CZT (Connecticut) ~
I have done both Doodah and Kitl before, but at first I wasn’t sure how to make them work in the string. Once I started, I got sort of stuck trying to go around the corners. In the end, I got the two tangles to work together pretty well, I thought, and worked out my problem spots. Shading was challenging, too. But when all was said and done, I found it an interesting challenge. So thanks again, as always for challenging and stretching me. Here’s my final result.
*weighted lines and dimension added to Kitl along with elegant Kitl
Isn't it gratifying to work through a tile as you described?
From Marjan Heemskerk (The Netherlands) ~
This is a tile, when I was halfway, I almost threw away. So many Oops. But I finished it because Zentangle taught me: there are no mistakes. I see all the Oopsies but I like it anyway. So here is my contribution for this week. An Oopsie tile;)
Tangled Tidbit -
*pretty combination of highlighted Doodah and white Kitl
From Gale Sherman, CZT (Tucson, Arizona) ~
I had to "put my thinking cap on" (haven't thought of that phrase in decades!) to figure out how to incorporate the center section of this tile. But once I had my Kitl fabric under control some babies escaped. Perhaps they are off to make some new fabric. The color under the doodah was made with "pens that bleed" - a black Speedball calligraphy pen and a very wet brush. The tiny bottoms of the Kitl in the "fabric"section and the escaping baby kitls were colored with a pink Mircron 01. We are getting near IAST #300. I'm excited!
Tangled Tidbit -
*fabulous Doodah variation features an open side - love the escaping babies!
Thank you for the notes on your pen technique and for sharing the excitement :)
From Sra (India) ~
Here's my entry to IAST 298! Early, for once.
I don't know if I've changed the tangle by adding the little round things to Doodah, but it's the intention that counts! :)
*wonderful collection of Kitl in the string's center section
As for the perfs, "Great minds think alike" as you will see as you read on...
From Shirley Wohlsen (Queensland, Australia) ~
Attached is my Tile for ‘ It’s A String Thing #298 ’ Challenge.
*gorgeous balance of light and dark spaces, along with double lined Doodah channels
From Tina Kirchhübel (Germany) ~
I am on vacation and I have some time to tangle, yippie!
I decided to make the recent IAST. When I saw the string I thought immediately of black and white. I think I was inspired by the notan art of Margaret Bremner and so I came up with this tile. Although I didn't know firstly how the string and the patterns fit together I am now really happy with the result.
I wish you a great summer and send lovely greetings from Germany
*such tangled fun flowing from light to dark and back again!
From Lynn G. (Florida) ~
Thank you Adele, for another fun challenge.
*sparkle, weighted lines, rounded corners - wonderful details
Thank you for continuing to feature your TTT frame, Lynn :)
From Annette Bode (Germany) ~
Here is my offering for this week’s challenge.
I love KITL! You can use the pattern in so many variations.
This time it is a DOODAH-ribbon with KITL-flower-power and a few TRIPPLEs for the connection.
Greetings from Germany
*fabulous flowers using Kitl along with a mirrored version as well as a border
From Ria Matheussen, CZT (Belgium) ~
Doodah and Kitl were two tangles I didn't use until now, so it was this
week a "challenging" challenge for me.
I made my tile with a black pen and pencil and finished with ordinary
colourpencils.
I just let one little loop "disappear" from the string. (as you can see,
I have drawn there also Doodah with a pencil)
Beside the two patterns Kitl and Doodah, I embellished my tile, starting
from Kitl on the left side beneath in the way Molly showed in an earlier
tutorial video. (I love that technique!)
This was a lovely challenge I enjoyed very much.
Thank you Adele and have a wonderful weekend,
Greetings from Belgium
*a beautiful of balance, embedding, composition, and shading
From Sue Leslie, CZT (New Mexico) ~
Two tangles I have used before, but what an interesting combination. One never knows where you will take us. Stay cool with all the heat this week everywhere across the US. Kinda wishing I was down under where it is winter now, so would be cooler.
*lovely layering of tangles, light and dark, accented with soft shading
From Moblue (Bremen, Germany) ~
Here we are with my tile for DooDah and Kitl. I made it simple and added a little Florz in the background. It’s too warm today for more inspiration. Maybe it’ll get better after the announced thunderstorm has arrived.
Happy tangling from Moblue, Bremen, Germany
*line of Kitl and Kitl filled string loops - Doodah shaded inside border lines
From Laruel Davis, CZT #28 (New York) ~
Thanks for another great challenge, Adele. I loved Doodah as soon as I saw it and grew to love Kitl the more I played with it.
*beautiful Kitl in brown with darkened spaces and shading - notice the alternating direction
From Margarete Gilge (Germany) and here on her blog ~
here is my contribution to your last challenge. I did not know the two patterns in this form and combination yet. It was interesting to combine them with your given string. I send you my red version. A second you can find on my blog under the link...
Thank you for this interesting challenge!
Best wishes from Germany
*seamless combining of tangles as well as isolated tangles - all beaming in red!
From Cheryl (Missouri) ~
I love my Zentangle community. Thank you very much for the sharing of all your time and talents.
It was a very nice tangle challenge and I pretty much kept with Doo Dah and Kitl.
*fantastically detailed tangles, both Kitl and Doodah
From Sunshine Day (Minnesota) ~
Wow!
It was AMAZING seeing you writing my name on the world map of iast participants!
Ty so much--it makes me feel so included!
What I noticed 1st about my tile was the lone light loop in the sea of dark (upper left) which then led my eye down the loops of Kitl, up the Tipple to Kyelp, then back down the Doodah ladder.
It felt like all the curves reflected each other.
It gave the piece an aspect of unity, which I had struggled with during its creation, so I was glad to get some semblance of it looking more finished.
Thx and everybody have an amazing week!
*wavy Doodah and highlighted Kitl shine against the dark background
So glad you to have you in our IAST community!
From Lin H. (Florida) ~
Thanks for another great challenge, Adele!
*transparent Kitl along the string line layered over a Kitl frame - how fun!
From Dee (Toronto) ~
It's months since I have tangled and I vowed I would get back to trying out your challenge this week. Both DooDah and Kitl are new to me and I enjoyed them very much. I added Miff to tie everything together as it's one of my favourites. Thank you for inspiring me to spend this muggy summer afternoon in the yard creating!
*tremendous addition of Jem's Miff to the mix of your lovely tangles
*Kitl filled string loops and perf lined Doodah accented with highlights
From Lynn F. (Florida) ~
I finished my tile earlier today and almost forgot to send it because we watched the CNN special on Apollo 11 landing on the moon 50 years ago today. I remember watching it with my family the summer of my high school graduation year.
Here’s my tile. Thanks for all you do.
*multiple, fanciful variations of Kitl and Doodah - accented with a golden touch
From Sue Agnew (Tucson, Arizona) ~
It’s very kind of you to say I’ve done almost 300 challenges. It’s true I’ve been participating for a long time — I think my first was #4. Wow. I’m guessing my total is more like 200 — in my scan folder I have 191 scans, plus several times on vacation I just took a photo and sent from my phone. Anyway, it’s fun, and I think I’ve told you it revitalized my Zentangle practice.
I hope everyone enjoyed DooDah as much as I did! When I showed it to a friend at lunch today she immediately began sketching variations of the lines, like a dot at the end or a dash at the end (Maria does that a lot), or a dashed line. I tried them, but I really like the very basic effect. However, one night this week I suddenly remembered another tangle, called Tofube, based on a folded-up quilt (I searched “quilt” on Tanglepatterns, and it came up! thank goodness because I never would have remembered the name!). Perhaps I thought of it because I was looking at a Crate&Barrel catalog. Anyway, it struck me that it’s closely related to DooDah. Or it seemed to me at the time anyway. So I did a “semi-monotangle” with DooDah and Tofube...
*Tofube is a grand companion to Doodah and shading makes both tangles shine
From Ragged Ray (United Kingdom) ~ a.k.a. Jem Miller, the very creator of Kitl!
It's been an age since I sent a tile to you - despite joining in quite a few times but not managing to finish my tile in time!
Thank you for giving us the chance once again of exploring your carefully chosen string / tangle combinations. I'm enjoying working with Doodah at the moment, more versatile that you'd think at first glance and it was a welcome chance to play with Kitl again - tucking it into every space I could see. For some reason I rarely use my own tangles!
*Kitl hangs like earrings on the string's loop - grandly detailed fine and weighted lines, bold and sparkled lines, aura and shading, and a tucked in "JM" mark!
From Kathy Millard (Prince George, British Columbia, Canada) ~
Wow! This was a very challenging tangle for me. I love the tangles (both new to me) but challenging to make them flow around curves. Looks like I need more practice with this concept. So much fun. Thank you again Adele.
*wonderfully rounded tangles - challenging, but you did it!
From Sharyn Penna, CZT (Massachusetts) ~
Showing up after a few missed weeks.
I dropped the loopy square part of the string and was going for a minimalist tile of just the center ribbon ... but printemps crashed the party then faded away!
My daughter thinks the ribbon looks like intestines... how zen is that!
Cheers to the many celebrations I missed ... and to the impending zenniversary!
*Kitl borders both sides of a rounded Doodah (Thank your daughter for the imagery :) and is brought to the foreground by lightly penciled Primtemps
From VenaC (Whitby, Ontario, Canada) ~
I know this is too late to post with the other entries, but my challenge to myself is to try to do every one of your challenges. It has been too hot to tangle and extremely humid. Plus, I seem to have had several commitments which have eaten into my time. I did start four times in an effort to use your string, but I couldn't get the patterns to work with it. I have used the set patterns and have broken the string up and used colour.
*wonderful take on the tangles and string - do use the string as you wish, the result will always be pleasing!
From Felicity Strohfeldt (Velddrif, South Africa) ~
This week time was a bit pressing too, but I buckled down and did a quick take on Maria’s new pattern Doolah. Had fun.
Have a super week all
Thank you
*Kitl flowers and string lines with pretty details and a double row of Doodah
From T. ~
This challenge may be my least favourite to date; not simply because of the patterns but also because I did not have a great week and it feels like that negative energy bled into my tile (I’m in the process of writing about my terrible week for my blog).
The string you gave us to work with was interesting and I was eager to work with it. I drew it on my tile without a border because, to me, it already had a border incorporated at its center.
However, I think I might have enjoyed it more with different patterns. I may try it out using other patterns I like.
Doo Dah is an easy pattern to draw, but it didn’t fit organically for me with the string or with Kitl.
Kitl, on the other hand, is the kind of pattern that’s always difficult for me to draw, even though it’s a simple shape. I don’t know what it is about drawing looped patterns that tend to trip me up.
I used the colour palette that has become my go-to for IAST challenges as of late and I added some orbs/tipple to fill in the empty spaces, and hopefully to hide my uneven Kitl loops.
*elegant Kitl loops, large and smaller Doodah - all in glorious color
Here's hoping for a much better week ahead for you.
Many thanks to everyone for the absolutely beautiful display of tiles for IAST #298 and to Maria Thomas and Jem Miller for their gorgeous tangles.
Stay cool in this very warm weather.
There is still plenty of time to participate in IAST #299 - click here for all of the delightful details.
The excitement is building for our 300th prompt - get ready! Tuesday will certainly be our good news day!
Thank you for the round-up and the appreciation!
ReplyDeleteI can identify with Sharyn's intestine comment - something else I drew long ago, maybe for IAST, reminded me also of intestines and I can't help feeling that way every time I see that. Recently, before I went for some health check-up to do with that region, I thought I should do a Zentangle meditation by drawing a tile with a representation of that, then gave up the idea as I was too nervous and it struck me as a little crazy too! Now you know how seriously I take Zentangle.
It's hot here today - a theme that runs through many people's accompanying messages. But reading through this post, and lingering over each and every tile has been a breath of fresh air.
ReplyDeleteIt's still such a wonderful feeling to see someone use a tangle I created - I will never grow tired of the thrill and the privileged. Even those people who found the tangle tricky (and it is, I agree - the best tip is to always start each Kitl from the cross point in the middle of the 8 shape!) made such beautiful tiles.
Thank you to everyone, thank you Adele!