I really appreciate those who stopped by last week and took the time to comment. Thank you so much for your kind words. It is always nice to get some feedback. I didn’t get my Diva Challenge tile up until very late in the week, so I’m very thankful for the views that I did get.
On to this week’s entry . . .
Oh my! I am not very pleased with this week’s Diva Challenge. I generally prefer my zentangles to be grayscale. Thus the ‘Green Up’ challenge was just that — a challenge for me.
I started by tangling the tile. I used lucky and sh’rock. My lucky was less than I desired but there are no mistakes in zentangle, so I kept plugging through. In an effort to make it something I liked more, I tried adding some smaller lucky behind the big one but it just got a bit messy.
Next I added the sh’rock but wasn’t pleased with that either. :\ I seemed to put the x’s in a repetitive way rather than random. Then it seemed more like flowers than shamrocks, so I auraed the ones in the upper left corner.
Then I used a green watercolor pencil, which I have only used once before when playing around with my nieces, around the border. I had hoped that It would end up being darker on the outside and go lighter toward the middle where I had lucky and shaded around it. I had hoped that the two shadings would come together lightly but alas, it didn’t happen. I must have colored the green on too darkly and thus had too much “paint”.
Then all the sh’rock was too dim, so I went over it to darken it and re-did the shading around the middle lucky.
Well, without further ado, here it is.
When I drew the main lucky the sides of my stem were too far apart so I made it a four leaf clover but the fourth leaf wasn’t wide enough, so I tried to make it look like it was a curled leaf. I’m not sure if I was successful or not.
The String Thing Challenge looks interesting this week and the focus tangle for the Square One facebook group is one I have not yet attempted, so maybe I’ll get more added to this post later in the week.
Until next time, God bless,
Michele ºÜº
Like the depth that you got in the center.
This is so very pretty, lovely green!