Arukas and friends

Today I fancied drawing Arukas. Around it, you see Crescent Moon and Ixorus and some other fancy patterns ;-)

Inktober #14: Ando

Ando is a pattern I would not quickly choose to draw, but it was a nice experience. On top of it I drew ‘Dillo and below it you see Fassett, Arukas and Tipple.

Zenuari day 9: Stained Glass

Today’s prompt is from Susan Reading. She likes us to create stained glass pieces and add a little zentangle to the mix.

For the ‘leading’ I got inspired by a window of the Notre Dame in Paris. Inside, you’ll see a lot of tangles (for their names see the tags of this post). The colors are added with colorpencils. 

Arukas Monotangle

This tile was purely meant to relax - I needed it and it worked :-)

Arukas zentangle heart

Arukas is always a nice tangle to draw, so this time I started it with a heart :-)

Golden oldies

It's always nice to draw some 'good old' tangles, like Purk, Arukas, Pixioze and PomX2.

Crea-cross #9: The road

The road is long and winding ;-)

Different creative ideas of other participants of this challenge can be found at the CreaCross blog of my namesake Ilse ;-)

Still tangling strong

Today, I chose the following patterns: Arukas, Ennies, C-Wing and something (bottom left) that didn't really work out ;-)

Alphabet challenge: A-R-H

It's nice to do my first (after our holiday :-) ) challenge of Diane and Carolien: create a tile with patterns starting with the letters A, R and H.

I chose the tangles Arukas, Rain, Hibred and Huggins and drew them in string #220:

Twinchie: Arukas

Because of the warm Summer weather, I'm doing a couple of Twinchies: tiles of 2 x 2 inches. A bit smaller than normal ;-)

Lazy Sunday morning tile

We have a busy afternoon, so I decided to have a relaxed Sunday morning. What better way is there than to zentangle away? :-)

My choice of patterns (going clockwise, starting top left): Chloë, Starburst, Ixorus, Allium, 8C, Arukas. 

Diva challenge #253

Laura asks us to use the new tangle 'Molygon'. Great, I already wanted to try this pattern!

When tangling, you make all kinds of decisions: how to use a tangle, in what string, with what other patterns etc. Quite often these decisions just happen, you let the tile fill itself with your ink. 

Then sometimes the result turns out rather different from what you originally had in mind. That's not a problem at all, this is ZENtangle :-)

So, it's different - but I like it! :-)

Zenuari day 8: Roll the dice

We're to roll the dice six times and each number is linked to the name of a tangle in a special list Anoeska made. This means I want to use a string pattern that consists of at least six parts - and then I start to puzzle with the 'chosen' patterns.

I chose string #110 and had to fill it with Wud, Arukas, Quib, Jetties, Jalousie and Hurry. Patterns I would not have chosen myself to use together in 1 tile. Especially Quib doesn't really fit in, but hey: that's life :-)

Diva challenge #242

Laura challenges us to use the new official tangle Gourdgeous. When I saw this pattern in the Zentangle HQ newsletter, I wasn't sure what to do with it. So: it was a good thing Laura made me think about it and just try and let it enter in a tile.

I ended up combining it with Diva Dance, Bales and Arukas. Not sure if I will use Gourdgeous very often, but it was nice to give it a try. 

Thanks for visiting my blog :-)

Square One: Hollibaugh

Facebook's group Square One asked us to focus on Hollibaugh. Somehow, I got inspired to create a Space Station with a little bit of help from Arukas ;-)

Joey's Challenge #64

Joey is starting something new: Alphabet monotangles. I'm a big fan of monotangles, I always find it challenging to create a composition with just one pattern.

This week we start with Arukas. I can only hope that my little twinkling stars don't make this a Duotangle. They're just little white gaps in the drawing ;-)

It's a String Thing #71

Adele Bruno chose the new tangle Arukas for this week's challenge, because it reminds her of the Star of the East - and we're close to Christmas!

We were to use string 069 and I decided to use all of the lines the string offers. I like monotangling! Once finished, I realised I should have left some white space in the top right as well to get a tile that is better balanced, but I'm still happy with the result. 

Diva's Challenge #197: Arukas

Arukas: a new official tangle. It's very nice to play with, I discovered :-) To put some variation into the tile, I added some Btl Joos.

Take a look at the other Arukas entries at the Diva's blog. It's very nice to see all the Arukas-creations of other people. 

Thank you for taking a look at my blog - your comments are allways welcome :-)