Saturday, October 8, 2016

Zengems on Opus


Does this Opus tile look joyful?
 
Hope so, I'm loving the Renaissance Opus tiles with plenty of room to play with colourful zengems. When I first started drawing gems I wasn't quite sure what to do next.....like, how do I fill in the spaces in between? I decided to make this one a sampler with round gems and a selection of colour. Fun, fun, fun!!
 
I used Prismacolor pencils for the zengems.
 
 


16 comments:

  1. Excellent work, as usual, Michele. Prismacolor is my go-to brand for colored pencils as well.

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  2. Gorgeous! It is amazing how you can make these look dimensional and so translucent.

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  3. Absolutely fabulous, Shelly! I can almost reach out and touch these gorgeous shiny gems. I simply MUST learn how to do this!

    Shoshi

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  4. You do such fine work, Shelly! Love your creative spirit's output. Many thanks for sharing with the tangling world.

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  5. Yes, This mind blowing beautiful !!!

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  6. A wonderful composition and such beautiful gems, I adore this tile!!!

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  7. SO beautiful! Is there any chance you did a stepout?

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    1. Hi Susan, sorry I don't have step outs but I started by drawing random circles, coloured them in, tangled around the middle one and it grew from there. Hope that helps.

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  8. I love your tiles and I love your gems!!!It seems ,I could touched them with my fingers. I swear,my fingertips feel the cool and smooth surface😉😉😉

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  9. If you do not do tutorials on your fantastic gems, where do you suggest we go to try to learn to draw them? Thanks. Nancy

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  11. I suggest you Google 'How to draw gems or zengems' there are many tutorials online. Have fun!

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  12. Love it...The gems look so shiny and raised with dimension, hard to believe its just colored pencils?

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