I seem to get surges of creativity and then other times I’m not creative at all… yesterday, luckily, was one of those creative surge days.  I started out working on this challenge, the main idea is to just add more black to your tangle, or put black where you wouldn’t normally.

I started out with string 209, and I had a few tangles in mind that I wanted to learn (NoNo, Skye, and Ginili) but somewhere along the way the tile got away from me… I wanted my ends to merge into something else and suddenly I had Rixty and Hollibaugh going… then I wanted the N’s in NoNo to become something and Fescu happened… then I wanted to fill in Skye and Hollibaugh with something and Tipple happened.  Somewhere in there I wanted the ends to be like ribbons, but I didn’t like how it looked, so instead I had the ends going into the wall (Holey, pg.32 Totally Tangled).  Um… there’s a lot going on here…

Diva Challenge – Bit ‘O Black

Feeling like I didn’t really do what the challenge had in mind… I started a new tile.. this time I created the outer box with shading, then I started filling it in with Holligbaugh… then I connected the ends so that it looked like ribbon wrapping around the imaginary shaded area… I quite like it! 😀

I was still feeling creative and wanted to try Fractal Trees (pg. 38, Time to Tangle with Colors)… I wasn’t really sure where this one was going but in the end I really like it.  Tangles used: Fractal Trees, Fractal Fern, Knight’s Branch, Celluline, and Stishes (all from Time to Tangle with Colors).  My favorite part is the bubbles… I don’t know what the pattern is called, it was in one of the examples… perhaps it’s a variation on Tipple…

All of these were drawn in my Art Journal… I took a 3.5 inch square and marked out some guidelines then drew with pencil and pen…

Until next time…
~nic