DC#360 Tripoli with Shattuck .. Lonetta`s TMP#12 ...and a fantasic Zendala Workshop

This is my first blogpost after two very busy weeks... filled with daily work in my job, with the beauty of spring which came with a nature "explosion" and between some time for tangling ;-)
I am going to show some photos/ tiles of this time:

DIVA Challenge DC#360 : Duotangle Shattuck with Tripoli

I love Duotangles and both tangles belong to my favourites!
I started with a Tripoli "flower" in the center. All the other tangles "came in the flow"...
Thank you, Laura, for this beautiful challenge!

I did not publish the results of Annettes Tangle Mosaic Project TMP#12 yet.
The whole Mosaic of all contributions you can find here

I show you the little mosaic which Annette sent me, created with my own contribution.
Thank you Annette - I love your project and your efforts so much!

Yesterday I run a  Zendala Day- Workshop .
It was very intensive and really successful day - I love to see the motivation of my students and their creativity. Unbelievable...
Here are some of the results... aren`t they beautiful?!

Six hours are too short to draw four different Zendalas (with all the preparation and explanation and practising of the used tangles) so I decided to give some homework to my students...
I am looking forward to see the results soon. I love it to give the students some orientation but possibilities of variation as well.

The Beauty of Spring

Spring is the most beautiful season of the year for me.
I am not so good to find the right words for this enormous beauty, so I took only some photos, by the way...

fern 

Climbers "on the Rocks" in the Saxon Switzerland near Dresden.

The details of this ranunculus blossom reminds me to a tangle ;-)

DC#358 "UMT PickPocket " and some Holidays' Impressions with CRM

Last week Tomas Padros published a new tangle on Instagram. I like these complex grid tangles and so I tried it immediately... at this time the tangle was still nameless ;-)
One day later Tomas named his tangle "PickPocket" - yes, I think it is a very suitable name...
These were my first tries:

What a surprise that the DIVA chose Pickpocket this week for her UMT Challenge.
I decided to try PickPocket on a Zendala tile. I started with a round grid and realized that I had started in the wrong direction. What a challenge!! I had a little brain training - the straight lines in the tangle needed to be circles now... After a while I got it and finally this was the result:

Although I like the result I was curious how the tangle will become when I start the right way and all lines meet in the center. So I drew another Zendala :

Isn't it stunning how different the patterns are, depending on the direction of the links?
This was an interesting experience - just unintended ;-). At least I like the "wrong" tile more...

My husband and me spent our  Easter holidays in Glasgow, Scotland.
Why Glasgow? Just easy: We LOVE Scotland and we love Art Deco. And in Glasgow lived and worked the famous Art Deco architect, designer and artist C.R. Mackintosh (CRM) wo designed the beautiful Glasgow Art Deco style together with his wife Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh (MMM)
We visited some very interesting Galleries, Houses and the Willow Tea Rooms (unfortunately one of them was closed because of reconstruction)


I attach only some photos of his work, just as an impression:

stencil for wall paiting

cupboard door

   

room design as contribution to a design competition

detail from the "House of an Art Lover"

lovely detail in a door - these are MY colors!!

Entrance to the Willow Tea Rooms

Stained Glass detail from the "House of An Art Lover"

Inspired by the beautiful works of these artists I did some tangle tiles during my stay in Glasgow:

This part of a curtain inspired me to try a new tangle, which has no name yet. 

Maybe I will give it a name and draw a deconstruction, but I need some more time to decide if this is really a tangle.. 

In my holidays I had only the pink and rose pencils , back home I needed some different color: