My husband noticed my new obsession last night…”you’re really excited about that drawing program.” I had tried drawing on my ipad before, but found the experience mostly buggy, and the results were unimpressive. I’m so comfortable with my desktop tools – Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop mostly – that I put down the ipad and forgot about it. Until now. A …
I picked up some drafting stencils at a thrift store for a quarter. This journal page kicked off by moving and filling an ellipse stencil around the page. Clearly not the neatest pen work, but who cares when it will be used very small! I open my picture of the page in Adobe Capture and experiment with options for patterns. …
I like stripe-y textures mixed with the bubble-like forms. It wants to be a Vegas carpet!
Okay, so it’s no secret that I don’t set land/speed records with my quilting projects. Blame it on January, but I’m motivated to finish some of the UFOs haunting my quilting space. This quilt top has been languishing since 2011…I had a plan for it, but something about my proposed design didn’t feel right. Tonight, it’s on my quilt wall …
I started this quilt last year, based on a Zentangle drawing I made, and blogged about it then. I am just now coming back to it and was happy to complete the top piecing yesterday. According to the drawing I had made for it, I now had 5 orange pieces to applique and it would be ready to quilt. My …
Zentangles always get their own way. I start with an idea, then before I know it, the drawing has raced off in a different direction. This one was going to be a square within a square, but it just didn’t cooperate. Not sure if I wanted to add more, I scanned the image so I could have it to play …
So now I’m on a roll of making self-similar images. Not true fractals, where you can zoom in indefinitely, but fractal-like. Pseudo fractals. As before, I started with a custom shape in Photoshop. The starting image was a 5 x 5 grid of circle-ish shapes. I inset it into itself twice, then used that as a quarter of a symmetrical …
This frame started as a Zentangle on a week when it seems like Spring has finally arrived. Working with it in Photoshop, I stumbled upon this configuration that makes a neat frame. Now I’d like to work in a rectangular format with an open corner to create a frame with a bigger opening in the middle. It’s so nice to …
I got a mehndi design today at the Plymouth Green Street Fair. The process was fascinating. The artist worked with a pen that looked more like a cake-decorating device. As the henna is applied, it looks like chocolate and is in a paste form that puffs up on your skin. It dries in about 15 minutes, and the paste flakes …
I started this Zentangle® drawing on a plane on the way to Phoenix in November. When I finished a few weeks later at home, I was ambivalent. There were elements I really liked, even whole sections I really liked, but I wasn’t sure I liked it as a whole composition. Pretty darn busy. So, I scanned it and cropped some …