Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Beads of Courage

If you are new to Zentangle pop over to The Diva's blog and read Laura's story. I am always inspired by her enthusiasm and spirit. This week her challenge #91 is named for Beads of Courage which is a charity that helps a child with a chronic illness or condition like Laura's youngest son.



 
Today I received  issue #2 of  Featuring magazine from The Netherlands.  Linda Farmer from tanglepatterns.com has written a superb article on Zentangle. It was lovely to see one of my tiles published also!!!
 
 

23 comments:

  1. Lovely! The top one looks like a quipu....an ancient calculator used by Indians to tally up goods when bartering.

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  2. I love your dancing beads - so much life in this tile. The 2nd tile is just wonderful too!! They look like jelly fish hehe - I love them both :)

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  3. Michelle these tiles are lovely. Your interpretation of the Diva's challenge is really great. I love both of these very much.

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  4. Both are really great. Like the shading in the top one.

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  5. Oh, how fun!!! I can hear the beads in tile #1 laughing and giggling! They're alive with..... courage!

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  6. You have so much imagination and these tiles are just perfect!

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  7. And ... you did it again. I LOVE these tiles.

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  8. Beautiful both your tiles. The second one is my favorite. It reminds me of beads for jewelry called Pandora. Great. scene how you presented them.

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  9. Both your tiles are just wonderful. So creative!

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  10. Love how the beads seem to be marching across the page in the first one and the second one has an underwater feel - exquisite work as always.

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  11. So glad Didisch mentioned Pandora, because I knew it reminded me of something expensive and beautiful. Pandora is it! And so is your tile... Like the bouncyness of that first one, too.

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  12. Congratulations on the publication. Your work is so wonderful and flowing everyone should see it at some point in their life so that they may experience the JOY of your art.

    Your tiles are wonderful - love the curtain of beads really well thought out.

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  13. Love them ! And congrats for the feature!!

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  14. I am trying to figure out how you did the top one! Globes first? then add strings and open centers? Wow! The second is wonderful, too. very 'beadish" colors. Love the knots.

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    1. Gloria, first tangle was quabog, (the fringe) then down to the beads.

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  15. Absolutely LOVE these interpretations! They're so organic and otherworldly.

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  16. Both are really, really beautiful! Your first one is so stunningly, deceptively simple and your second one makes me almost feel the beads moving. I love the beads and strings in the second, but also admire the background.

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  17. Both tiles have such movement, and I love the touches of color in the second one, and the soft background. So well done!

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  18. Both fabulous! Love the shape of the beads you have used on the second one!

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  19. I love your second tile!

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  20. Both tiles are beautiful, if I had to pick one as a favourite it would be the second one.

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