This weeks’ Diva Challenge is a guest post by Dilip Patel from India. He challenges us to us a tree shape as our string and use a single tangle on it.
The Square One: Purely Zentangle focus is Helen Williams’ tangle Steps. I thought I might use it for my monotange but I hadn’t tried my hand at Steps yet and since I didn’t want to mess up my challenge tile, I decided to use a different tangle for the challenge tile.
I considered which tangle could look like leaves and bark. I didn’t go through very many options in my head before I considered Amaze or Stiritup. I decided it was a good match, besides amaze is a very easy tangle to draw.
Here is what I came up with.
I then decided to try my hand at steps. Here is my first attempt.
It is not shaded and I know that adds tons to a tangle but I do not like this. I think it is about my base line. So I attempted it again on an ATC size tile.
It is better, still not shaded but still better. I like this a bit better than the first attempt but that isn’t saying much. I guess I’m going to have to look at what others have done with it to figure out how I should draw the base line.
I really appreciate the committed commenters! I seldom have the opportunity to check out other’s submissions to the challenge, so when I am so far down the list of contributors, number 51 this last week, I am thrilled that there are people that persevered and even took the time to comment too!
Thank you Ulrike, Maggiebee, AnneMarie, and Jean. I really appreciate your encouragement. And Jean, thanks for pointing out that what I did around purk and hollibaugh was to add the aura enhancement.
Also, thanks to the two that clicked the like heart as well.
Until next time, God bless,
Michele ºÜº
Great idea! Love your tree!
I think you are being a little hard on yourself regarding Steps. It took me ages to get a feel for it and even now I struggle a bit. However, when you get it, you will love doing it. There’s a curved version too, if you haven’t already seen it, look on Helen Williams’ blog, it’s very pretty. It would never have occurred to me to use Amaze, I don’t know why, but this sort of gives the essence of tree, rather than a representation of one. Nice.
Your tree is amazing lol! I continue to be surprised at the variety of tangles selected for the trees, yours is the first I have seen using amaze.
I like your ‘wild’ tree, keep looking at it 🙂