A Tile Project

I am part of a Zentangle Group on the Chocolate Baroque Ning Forum where we have a periodic challenge or task. Our first was to use a "Z" string as the basis for the tangle & the current one is to make a traditional Zentangle sized tile using the TanglePatterns String 010 from Linda Farmer's TanglePatterns.com.

One of the good things about making blog posts is that you can see how you develop as time goes by - at least when it comes to artwork you can - sometimes it will take months, sometimes a matter of weeks or even days. As I wrote about the possibility of preferring the creamy colour of watercolour paper to the white of the W H Smith 220gsm White Card when used with the black pen I had no idea it would actually occur within a  fortnight. Since that is where I find myself now I've made some 3½ inch square tiles from the Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolour Paper 190gsm Cold Pressed/NOT Grain Fin rounding the corners with a Woodware corner rounder punch (the traditional Zentangle Tiles have rounded corners) as I find this adds to the finish.

tangles: Cadent, Frond, Twilight Zone

I initially thought that using a black Polychromos pencil for shading might be a good idea but soon discovered that the effect was too dark. I found this post mentioned using a 2B pencil & managing to buy a 2B Lakeland Graphite locally I used that with a paper stump for the shading on this tile. The whole 'feel' of the watercolour paper with the smoothness of the graphite is quite delightful & hard to describe, just a joy.

My three background tangles are all Cadent with slight variations & the strings within the triangular shape became part of the Twilight Zone tangle.