Inktober Despite It All!

Shattered - A bit like how I've been feeling lately. Many disappointments and yet a multitude of joys.
I live in the transitions; but, somehow as I get older, I want the transitions to be more permanent and plentiful. It's not all black and white. Life is messy. Seems wholeness implies separation.

The dictionary definition describes a garden "teeming" with flowers. I like that idea.

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.

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.

Sketchbook pages

Testing out some new tangles and ideas. Slowed down this week (these are from last week). I'm still processing the unexpected, sudden death of my closest  friend Deb Casey. Maybe I will dedicate my next tangle to Deb. We'll see. I never know what will happen when I put pen to paper. 

A few more sketchbook pages

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!!  

Because Walmart had these cool bottles

I knew I had to tangle them.  Then I found the idea for incense burner online. I had so much fun making the little wire and bead bottle jewelry. Sure don't know what will become of them. They are currently at Awakening Waters in Garrison Minnesota. I have 2 left to tangle....so hard to decide which one to keep.