Bay Pines Visit

Mom had an appointment up at Bay Pines today.  So while I was waiting I did a little sketching.

Horse Hair Pottery

I purchased this pot in September from a local pottery cooperative in Homosassa, Florida.  I've painted it before but I don't know if I posted it.

I haven't been completely idle

I have finally finished that painting of the orchids that I began some weeks ago.  The pot that the plant is in did not come out exactly as I envisioned, but that's ok.  I'm pleased with the result in general.

Merry Christmas!!

Happy Holidays

It's just me and the Akita crew for Christmas this year.  Mom will come over for dinner tomorrow, but G has gone to visit his mom and his sister's family for the holiday.  Hope to use the time to play, draw, paint, read, nap - whatever!!

My first original(?) Tangle Pattern

When I first began learning to do Zentangle® I would explore the web, Flickr especially, looking at other peoples designs and trying to find the tangle patterns that I really liked. I also looked for images that contained patterns that I thought might be good tangle and saved them to my hard-drive. Later, I printed many of them, two to an 8-1/2" x 11" page and created two Circa notebooks.  One filled with named patterns and the other filled with images.

Above is one of the images that I found, which really has a ton of designs incorporated into it that would be lovely tangle patterns. (Unfortunately, I did not make a note of the source of this image, so if anyone recognizes it, please tell me so that I may credit it.)

One piece that I began playing with is the "leaf" design around the outer edge.

 
But I really just never did anything "official" with it in the tangle world.  Then last week I was playing with my new Sakura Gel pens and posted this.

I received a number of comments on this and was asked if I had introduced this "tangle". Well, let's see if I can.

Lastly, let me give credit where credit is due - although I came up with the name Leavz - the name Flamez was suggested by LaceFairy1, so I take no credit.  I also hope that neither of these names has been previously used - I did not find either on Tanglepatterns.com.  If either design is too similar to something already done, please let me know.