A Tangled Tuesday

I'm posting a little early this week because, well, I'm ready! I haven't written at all on Life in the Trenches this past week...my mood being all in a bunch, but I've been busy playing with challenges (a serious thank you to Laura, Erin, Patty, and Tammy for coming up with these to keep me happily occupied rather than wallowing in my misery!!) So, off we go!

 

First is the weekly Zendala Dare #20 from Erin at the Bright Owl:

 

I started with the center, feeling rather organic and let it grow from there.
Patterns: Botanica, Boxwood, Chakras, Cruffle, and Laine

Then Laura's Weekly Diva Challenge #84 was to close your eyes, put your pencil to the paper and draw a blind string to tangle. I must say, I did a pretty good string for not looking at what I was doing!

 

 And so using my blind string I jumped into Patty's Tangle Journal Prompt #31 to tangle with purple and yellow! I love purple so this was a joy to do and the yellow is a little hard to see in the pic, but it adds such a cool punch! Thanks Patty!

 

Patterns: 'Nzeppel and Coaster

One of the art journal prompts this week from Daisy Yellow was to create a map of someplace imaginary, which immediately made me think of 'Dawn's World'--where my husband says I live. Hey, it's my happy place and people like me there!

 

 

 Almost done...this is my bittersweet Back to School Idea Journal page...Bug starts fifth grade tomorrow!! Nooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where did summer go???

 

 

 Last but not least, well, quite possibly least...it's my least favorite of the week. I am trying to tackle the pattern Tripoli and I think it's still beating me...But I'll keep at it. Another huge thank you to Shelly Beauch who kindly helped me with a little Tripoli tutorial--she makes it look so easy!! I really  don't like how the graphite shading picks up a glare from the camera flash--I really prefer to shade with a black colored pencil...

 

So there's my week in review, at least artistically...Thanks for swinging on by. Hopefully I'll get to rambling once more over at the Trenches this coming week once we get back into our school time routine and the house is all empty and quiet again...Hope to see you next week!