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Friday, September 19, 2014

Diva Duo

Every week I check in to Laura Harm's site for her weekly Challenge.  I don't always make it to the end of the week with a challenge completed. Often, if I manage to do the challenge, I don't always get it posted here.  Why? Laziness. But this week! This week I got it finished, scanned and am now going to post.  I'm on a roll baby!

So the challenge is to create a duotangle using only the tangles Diva Dance and Phicops.  I was happy to see these two tangles being used as I used the two together this summer and wanted to explore them further.  The idea was added to my idea list, but stayed there until this week.

As you may know, I created the artwork for a coloring app this summer.  You can read more about it here.  After finishing, I wanted to keep going with the coloring idea and made a book, which you can also read about  in the link.  Anyway, one page was a nod to zendalas with half zendalas covering the page. See the bottom of the image on the right.  While I like all the designs here, I really love the bottom one.  So, this was my inspiration for the challenge this week.

Wanting to separate the challenge from the coloring book, I chose to use tan drawing paper as a beginning.  I then used black, brown and a burgundy micron pen for the drawing.  Exploring colored paper is a lot of fun and I really experiment with the idea of white as a highlight.  I have a white chalk pencil that I use and it is really nice.

I redrew the phicops and diva's dance from the coloring book but then I was a little stuck.  I was really happy with what I had so far but the drawing didn't feel finished yet.  And as the challenge only allows for the two tangles, I wasn't sure what to use next or how I wanted to use it.  I opted for diva's dance and making it look different than I had used it before.

Drift
 The new burgundy pen is the outer layer and I like it.  On the brown paper it doesn't look as red as I would think, more of a darker brown.  I opted not to fill in the spaces in there and to me it feels like drift wood.  I used the chalk pencil to add a little highlight there.

I hope that you like this as much as I do.  I am really proud of the shading and highlights on the phicops.  I was thinking of it as a sea creature but then a friend said it looked like a meringue so now I'm conflicted.  :)

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great weekend!

10 comments:

  1. I'm not surprised you're proud, it's fabulous, colour, patterns, design, everything. This is beautiful.

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  2. nice work. I love phicops in its round form. Love the symmetry of your tile and the colour.

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  3. I like the way you did Diva Dance. It is not one of my best tangles to work with, but you made it look very dimensional.

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  4. Wow! Looks great. I like the white highlights but really like the weighed lines in the radiating Diva Dance. With the shading, makes it look like they are holes.

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  5. Love the piece! The weighted lines are great and the burgundy pen looks great on the tan paper!

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  6. Nice! I think your Phicops looks like one of those twisty Chinese dumplings, but maybe I'm just hungry...��

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  7. Beautiful mandala. I like how your diva dance is so clean and flowing

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  8. Thanks everyone! Your wonderful comments mean so much!

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