12 Days of Zentangle Project and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The Christmas Season this year seemed to be very short and so the time was full packed with things to organize and to do... the holidays came quickly and no it is already gone...

I hope you all had a wonderful time and you are now full of energy and motivation for the New Year.

I have published the new Zentangle Classes for 2018 onto my website! I am looking forward to my students!
Meine Zentangle- Kurstermine für das erste Halbjahr 2018 sind jetzt online! Ich freue mich auf neugierige und begeisterte Teilnehmer!

During the last days I finished some tiles of the 12Days of Zentangle Project.
Thanks to Rick and Maria, who prepared such a lot of beautiful ideas and videos to deal with. The new official tangles "Rumpus" and "Toodles" are beautiful and give so much opportunities to play with.

Here I show you some of my tiles which I created based on the 12Days videos.

#PP02DayThree : new tangle Rumpus . I drew Rumpus on a square tile with a glass dip pen and blue-black ink:

#PP02DayFive :   A Zendala with "Kissing Mookas" . I did not cut the areas for Knightsbridge, I blacked them with a brush pen.

#PP02DaySix :  Introduction of "Toodles" what a nice tangle with lots of variation possibilities!

#PP02DaySeven:  a prestrung Zendala should be filled with interwoven auras in each section - how simple with a stunning result! I wanted to see a little olour, so I drew int in blue on a tan tile:

#PP02DayNine:  One of my favourites! A black and a white (or tan) tile have been split into two parts and rejoined mirrored. I used two black and tan original tiles and two black and white Bijou tiles:

#PP02DayTen: Paradox as string on a black Apprentice tile. So lovely, unfortunately I made only one of them:

#PP02DayEleven: A star of 3Z tiles. It was the Christmas day... I made only the black one and gilded the backside. This star is hanging at my ChristmasTree ;-)

Last not least I would like to show you a couple of my paper folded stars. The German name is Fröbelsterne. It is the 3D version.

I have used beautiful paper stripes - and I love the stars! I used some of them as Christmas presents.

My special thanks to all my blog readers for your interest and all of your lovely comments! 

Another Zentangle year has gone and we have shared lots of beautiful Zentangle art and spent much of quality time together in this wonderful, mindful Zentangle family.

I wish you a very Happy New Year , health, love, luck and success with all the things you do!

Happy Tangling!

Love, Simone

Muster Mixer #13

Für diesen Muster Mixer bestand die Aufgabe darin, selbst zwei Muster auszuwählen und diese miteinander zu mixen.
Die berühmte Qual der Wahl.... macht es nur schwerer!!
Kurz vor Monats- (und Jahres-)ende hatte ich Zeit und Lust, mich auf diese Aufgabenstellung einzulassen und auch Ideen, welche Muster ich sehr gern mag und wie man sie miteinander verschmelzen kann.
Ich habe mich entschieden für die Muster

Inapod von Carole Ohl (CZT)      und
Steps von  Helen Williams
Von Steps habe ich sowohl die ekige (ursprüngliche) als auch eine abgerundete Variante verwendet.

Während des Zeichnens hatte ich noch einige Ideen, was ich hätte anders machen können.
Aber:     Es ist wie es ist und es ist gut so.
Das ist mein Leitspruch für 2016. Kampfansage an den Perfektionismus!

Danke, Zentangle,  für unser erstes gemeinsames Jahr.

Und euch allen, die diesen Beitrag ansehen, wünsche ich einen guten Rutsch ins Neue Jahr und alles Gute für 2016!
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The challenge of this Muster Mixer was to choose two tangles ourselves and mix them.
Not that easy, when you have so much choice!
Just some days before the end of this month (and this year..) I found some time and was in the mood to take this challenge.

I decided to use the patterns
Inapod by Carole Ohl (CZT) and
Steps by Helen Williams.

While tangling I got more and more ideas what to do differently, however:

It is what it is and it is good the way it is!
This is my motto for 2016 - and my declaration of war on perfectionism!

Thank you, Zentangle, for our first year together!

Everyone reading this I wish a Happy New Year!

New to me

Today I studied the post "Tangle Refresher #114" on Linda Farmers blog .

I was immediately stoked by the tangle "IX".
So my exercises of this afternoon are dedicated to this tangle.

DIVA Challenge #240 - Nature inspired

This week the DIVA asked us to create a tile inspired by the nature.
We have had a wonderful, sunny autumn day today.  I used three maple leafs which I dried this week for this challenge .
First I tangled on the leafs, put them on a sheet of paper and scanned them:

After that I tangled a little bit around the leaves, more and more, until the paper was filled completely. And then I coloured it with inktense pencils. 

What a good experience to realize the beauty of the autumn with its stunning colours!

lazing on a sunday afternoon...

Heute habe ich einfach mal so losgetangelt, gestartet mit "In A Pod" und dann habe ich die Muster drum herum entstehen lassen.
Ich habe mich ein bisschen inspirieren lassen von den vielen Tiles die ich mir von euch ansehe.

Ich wollte gern auch mal wieder etwas meine Derwent Graphik Line Painter einsetzen (Aber kein Pink heute!)

Das Ergebnis gefällt mir ganz gut, aber ich merke, dass meine Tiles immer wieder ähnlich aussehen.

Irgendwie ein bisschen festgefahren..

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Today I started tangling without a special target. I started with In A Pod and let the tangles grow around it. I have been inspired by the tiles I see every day on your blogs..
And I wanted to use one of my Derwent Graphic liners to bring a little bit colour in it.
(But no Pink today!!)
I like the result, but I think all my tiles are rather similar style. May be I got stuck a little bit..

Weekly Challenge #235: "String Theory: Stripes"

This week`s DIVA challenge is to draw stripes across the paper and use as string. 

Simple as that...

I decided to draw undulated stripes and I am quite pleased with the result:

Muster Mixer #10

Anya Lothrop lädt zum Jubiläums- Muster Mixer! Mein Glückwunsch und vielen Dank für diese tolle Challenge!
Seitdem ich mit dem Zentagle Virus infiziert bin, habe ich keinen Muster Mixer verpasst. Seit acht Monaten freue ich mich auf den neuen Monat und die neue Aufgabe.
Es gibt immer einige Möglichkeiten, die vorgegebenen Muster zu mixen. Einige liegen auf der Hand, andere wiederum muss man sich "erarbeiten". Obwohl man beim Zentangle eigentlich nicht viel denken soll, finde ich es doch spannend, sich erste Gedanken zu machen, wie man das Bild aufbauen will. Meistens mache ich mir dazu ein paar kleine Skizzen und dann geht es los. Und interessanterweise entwickelt sich die Kachel dann doch irgendwie anders als man dachte und es kommen ganz interessante Ergebnisse zustande.
Ganz besonders schön war diesmal, dass ich im Urlaub bin, in einem gemütlichen Häuschen an der Nordseeküste auf blühende Heidelandschaft schaue und das Tangeln so richtig genießen kann.

Die Muster sind diesmal : "FANDANGO" und "DRAGONAIR".
Beide sind neu für mich, aber sicher nicht zum letzten Mal gezeichnet!

Diva Challenge #233 "Zenith"

Welcome back, dear DIVA!
Yes, the guest bloggers did a great job this summer. Thanks to all of them!

This week you asked us to create a tile with the new official pattern by Rick and Maria Thomas - "Zenith".
I have seen this pattern in the Zentangle newsletter and I liked it immediately. But I did not take time to try it up to now.
Finally, today I spent some time with this pattern and played with it a little bit for your challenge.
It was not my intention to draw a Zendala, it just happened! And so I created my very first own Zendala without any template and I must say - I am proud of it!
Thank you for this great experience!

Zendala Dare #107

Holiday!!
This week I am together with my husband in West Danmark at the North Sea  in a cute and cosy little cottage.
It is so lovely here and so relaxing. The heathers are blooming. The weather is fine to sit on the terrace in the sun and to draw.
Today I spent some time to tangle for the Zendala Dare Challenge.
This week´s template reminded me to a flower, so I started my first tile with watercolors and tangeled over the colors.
As I was not so happy with the result (too much color?) I started a second attempt. In this tile I used a coloured pencil instead if graphite for shading.
I like this tile more, what do you think?

this is the SECOND tile 

and this is the first one

DIVA Challenge #232 "Audio Meditation 1,2,3"

What an interesting new challenge by guest blogger Holly Atwater!
When reading first time I did not really understand the task, but after listening to the first Audio file it was rather clear.
Then I was a bit afraid, if I would understand all the text in English, but the voice and the articulation was so clear and calm that I was surprised to understand almost all words! (In the first Audio Meditation I had an online dictionary where I had to look two or three times..;-) This was not relaxing...
And then I thought: No mistake at Zentangle, so it doesn´t matter if all is perfect and then came the flow... Thank you, Holly for this interesting experience!

Zendala Dare #106

This is the first time that I attend to the Zendala Dare Challenge.
My very first zendala I draw when Erin was on the DIVA Challenge blog as a guest blogger.
I am glad that I found this site because I like the regularity of the zendala strings - this is soo relaxing!!
Thank you, Erin, for your templates.
This is my result for this week, I am rather happy with it:

Hopefully I will find some time during the next weeks as well.

It´s a String Thing #107

This week Adele Bruno gave us the challenge to tangle the patterns
Asian Fans, Bud aud Budlite.
Again, three new patterns for me to try.
Thank you, Adele, for the lesson how to draw Asian Fans, so I tried it as you suggested. The Budlite and Bud are very nice with a little practice...
The string of this week is very nice as well.
Thank you, Adele!

DIVA Challenge #231 "The Undulating Tangles in C and S minor"

This week the DIVA challenge has been created by guest blogger Sharla Hicks.

First I learned a new English word: I had use the dictionary to find out what "undulating" means. (Now I know it and I hope I won't forget it..)

A very nice challenge ! First I started with a light blue ink liner on dark blue paper, but I am not so glad with the result.

So I tangeled a nearly classic tile and I am much more satisfied with that.

But - as Zentangle does not know mistakes - finally I will show you both ...

Thank you, Sharla, for this interesting Challenge!

Der Tag als der Regen kam...

An diesem Wochenende ist in unserer Region eine 14 Tage anhaltende Hitze- und Trockenperiode zu Ende gegangen.

Temperaturen täglich zwischen 33 und 37°C und kein Tropfen Regen... Die Elbe hatte Rekord- Niedrigwasser, die Bäume bekamen braune Blätter und Nadeln und die Nächte waren tropisch. Ich habe diese Zeit als recht anstrengend empfunden! Daher haben wir dem erlösenden Regen regelrecht herbeigesehnt.

Das erste Gewitter kam am Samstag nachmittag, genau in dem Moment, als ich gerade dabei war, das Zentangle Muster "Narwal" zu entdecken.

Zur Begrüßung des Regens habe ich gleich dieses Bild gestaltet.

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This weekend finished a 14 day period of suffocating heat and dryness in my region.

Temperatures between 33 and 37°C are absolutely ununsual and no rain at all... The river Elbe had a record of low water, the trees got brown leaves and needles ant the nights were tropical. This time was rather strenuous (i hope this is the right word) for me. So we have been waiting for rain a long time!

The first thunderstorm began at saturday afternoon, when I exercised the Zentangle pattern "Narwal". 

As a welcome to the rain I completed the exercise to this drawing:

Patterns : "Narval","Daviso","Msst", "Nipa", "Fracas", "`Nzeppel"
Colours :  Derwent Inktense Ink Pencils

Ich wünsche allen einen guten Start in die neue Woche bei angenehmem Wetter!
I wish you all a good start into the new week with fine weather!

DIVA Challenge #230 - "Let’s all be ZenDivaDala"

This week the DIVA Challenge comes from Guest Blogger Erin Olson, CZT.
She gave us a tamplate for a Zendala.

Well, my first Zendala!
And what shall I say - it was such a nice evening for me - I started with one of my favourite patterns "Paradox", the ideas came step by step,  and then I was in the flow...
Tonight I am very happy with the result:

Muster Mixer #9

In Anya Lothrops Muster Mixer #9 besteht die Aufgabe des Monats darin, die Muster "Tropicana" und "Ixorus" zu mixen.
"Tropicana" kannte ich aus einer DIVA Challenge, "Ixorus" war wiedermal neu für mich.
Zunächst dachte ich, es gäbe nur eine einzige Möglichkeit zu mixen, aber beim Zeichnen fielen mir dann doch noch ein paar weitere Varianten ein.
Das ist mein Ergebnis:
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The task of Anya Lothrops "Muster Mixer #9" was to mix the patterns "Tropicana" and "Ixorus".
I have already used "Tropicana" once in the DIVA Challenge, "Ixorus" was new to me.
First I thought there were only one real possibility to mix both patterns, but while tangling I found some more variations.
This is my result :

Many greetings to the Zentangle community - wish you all a perfect summer!

DIVA Challenge # 229 Positive and Negative

This week we had an interesting challenge by guest blogger Sandy Hunter (CZT):
We should shift our focus to the negative space - the white part of the tile. When I started to draw I thought that it might be interesting to intensify this effect with the other extreme and to add some black space.
So I managed it at sunday evening to complete this challenge after a very busy week and weekend...

Thank you Sandy for this interesting challenge and this experience!

It`s a String Thing #104

At least I did it... I have not had enough time this week for the challenges.
But I had the ideas in my head and I wanted to draw them.

Even if the result is not as perfect drawn as I intended (I started with the wrong glasses....) I send this tile as my part to "It`s a String Thing 104"

Congratulations, dear Adele, for this two years challenge. I think it is a lot of work every week to review all our works..
Thank you for that !
Best wishes from Dresden!

Diva Challenge #228 "Nature"

DIVA Challenge #228 comes from guest blogger Cari Sultanik, CZT. She asked us to draw someting "organic", related to the nature.
This is a very nice theme with soo many possibilities... not easy to decide!
Thank you, Cari, for this beautifu challenge, I had a very peaceful and relaxed afternoon!
This is my result, just in time at sunday afternoon in Germany...
Many greetings to all tanglers, I wish you all a perfect summertime!

It`s a String Thing #103

The String Thing´s task of the week was to use the patterns Meer, MI2 and MR.E on a tile with string 103. While Adele (hopefully) had lots of fun with her grandchildren I had fun with this patterns.
Thank you Adele!
This time I did not use any aditional colour (but it was hard for me to do not!!)