And Inktober Flows On

Day 8 - prompt Screech... So here's a little "Screech" Owl

I love Squirrels and acorns and oak trees. Right now the Oaks are in full color. It's a beautiful autumn. This little squirrel found a "gigantic" acorn.

Inktober Playing Catch-up with posting

Inktober - 5 - Prompt Long

Inktober 6 - Prompt Sword

Inktober 7 - Prompt Shy

Inktober 8  - Prompt Crooked

Inktober 4 - Underwater

Got it done early today! Yup - procrastinating on the pile of work I must finish today. Always surprises me where these prompts take me. I had something else totally different in mind. I do like the fish.... I'm not very good at representational drawing. When I was very young, like maybe 9, our class went to the Walker Art Museum to see Andy Worhol's work. Abstract art for a young midwestern, suburban girl was a giant stretch. I clearly remember pondering a large sculpture of French fries. I didn't get it. The mere mention of abstract, modern, avant garde... would shut me down entirely. And, here I am doing mostly abstract art 50 years later. LOL

I think I finally understood art when I went to the Smithsonian's Mark Rothko color field painting installation. It was quite moving. I teared up. I finally "got it!" I still love Rothko's work. And, now am most inspired by Peter Deligdish www,peterdraws.com I have permission to be free.

Inktober 3 - Poison

Actually, I inked a card today as well; but forgot to take a picture before I shipped it. This was a long day - 3 hours of sleep, projects on deadline went sideways, medical testing, need to find my original social security card (darn thing is 45 years old so not exactly something I keep in my wallet), and lots of Pokemon Go (FINALLY caught an Entei).

Today's prompt is POISON. Yeah - I feel poisoned. Poison is sneaky, vaporous, sinister, personal, acrid.... and yet seems everywhere these days. Poison in our food, in our air, in our water, in our ears, in our vision, in our emotions....

Inktober Day 2

Inktober! Day 2 - Divded is the prompt

Hey, Lynn, your Zentangle roots are showing. But, I love these tangles.

Let's Do Inktober!

I really, really don't have time for Inktober - but hey -- that's what it's all about. I haven't worked in my sketchbook since May. It's about time I get back to a daily habit no matter what. I can't say it was easy getting back up on the horse. My horse is happily wallowing in wet hay and not terribly inspired. I might try a saddle tomorrow ;-)

Today's prompt was Swift. Not what I was thinking but it's what I had time for.

Smoking Bottles

So, I had this idea of making some different incense burner bottles known as smoking bottles. This is the first trial of one of my ideas. I just need to find my tool to put holes in it. I'll probably sell it in my etsy shop when it's finished. I'm working on 2 more one is oak trees with acorns as decoration and the other is lake fishing themed with a bobber topper. I love coming up with new ideas. I'll post better pictures when I get them.

A few more sketchbook pages

Let's Get Sketchy - trying out sketchbooks

So, I've been inspired by Peter Draws on Twitch.tv and YouTube. Seems production is the key to growth and I know this to be true with writing so I'm trying it with doodling. I'm attempting to do a page a day in my sketch book. Wish me luck -- here is what I've got so far (in no particular order because this rural internet upload is paleo). 

I toyed with the idea of coloring this or using gel pen resist....then I got lazy 

I think this one should be turned on end; but, again I'm too lazy and it doesn't really matter does it?

Walnuts are all gone! This is my breakfast

Tangled Incense Bottles

This was a fun summer project. I found these coated bottles at Walmart and of course thought, "I can tangle that! So I started with 2 white, 2 green, and 2 black. Decided to keep a green bottle with copper tangles for myself. Then I tangled 3 more (one of each) for my sister. They are selling very well at Awakening Waters but I really wanted soe in my Etsy shop so I'm working on 3 more (green and white only this time since they seem to be preferred. 

The stick of incense goes upside down into the bottle so the ash collects in the bottle. BRILLIANT!!  

Catching Up

Somehow, I've gotten behind on scanning and posting my tangles. Here are just a few. from January 2016

Learn to Tangle

I am going to teach an introduction to tangling class in Garrison, MN at Awakening Waters on 169

Saturday, April 2, 2016 11-1:30

Visit AwakeningWaters.com to pre-register

$30 includes materials fee

We will learn the basics of creating a tile, create several tiles in class, and you will take home enough materials and knowledge to continue to tangle anywhere anytime. You will learn 10 or more tangles in this workshop. Guaranteed to lower your stress level and help you relax.

"Anything is possible one stroke at a time"

Whan that aprill

Sometimes you just have tangle.... this is on Canson Illustration board. It's a soothing surface for the micron pens. This was very relaxing.

The Rune Project is my main focus. I have finished 6 more runes. I think I'll post them separately so I can use the posts as a means of organization.

The Canterbury Tales - Prologue in Middle English
by Geoffrey Chaucer

Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open ye
(so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially from every shires ende
Of engelond to caunterbury they wende,
The hooly blisful martir for to seke,
That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.

Power Dropped Tangling Continues

An unexpected power outage fried my cable modem and cable box so I'm just now getting around to posting these.  Apparently, posting from my Samsung Tablet is going to require an expenditure of brain power. You'd think mobile blogging would be easier. Above is "Bonsai" because I felt like it. I'm procrastinating on starting my study of the runes. I think I want to make them smaller. This is a bit large and I tend to stick with the same tangle to use up space.

This combines several recent Diva Challenges. I'm not quite brave enough to post my link on her site. She has some very accomplished tanglers and I'm a rank novice.  This combines the newest official tangle Rixty and  the challenge to use my initials as a string. I'm afraid I wasn't very creative that night. I also wanted to try the colors on the tan colored cardstock. I'm not sure how the cardstock would stand up to wet blending so I did the best I could with the stump.  I really can't see very well on this colored paper. But, I love the effect.

More tangling on watercolor. Just for fun - I attempted another Diva Challenge to use Quandary. I'm not sure it turned out quite as I thought it would but a few circles transformed it into flowers. There are no mistakes in Zentangle.

Fun on pale yellow cardstock with blue Micron ink and a bit o soft gray shading. this is a Zendala but I'm still having trouble planning them out.

BE as a greeting card.  I think I like the first one better and this one was challenging. Maybe I was just tired. It was fun and I see some elements I'm going to carry forth. Whimsy is such a release for me. 

Next I need to start focusing on the rune project so I can start packing up my fancy supplies for the big move. We had our home inspected by the buyers on Friday..... This could be it (with guarded enthusiasm as not to jinx it).  I should also think of something for Miss May's upcoming birthday. Maybe I'll just give her the blue teapot. 

Another attempt

Playing with the whole greeting card thing again

Below is attempt 2 at the peeking bunny. Thank you, Jean for helping make this bunny a little less bizarre and creepy.

When April Showers

Just playin with the painted paper

My first official Zendala. Stressful - I keep wanting to balance it and center it; but I know that isn't necessary. Actually, I'm pleased with how this turned out.

 Playing with my new Prismacolor watercolor pencils to see how the color works. Interesting. This tangle is on Bristol board.

We went to IHOP and the girls loved the bunny clings peeking around the corners. I decided to try a Easter card with a peeking bunny.  Gel pens, Inktense pencils

Haven't been tangling as much this week. I have bows I need to make and some custom orders to get out.