I've been away and working in my small watercolour book, so decided to work in that for the challenge. I did the zentangle in the traditional manner first, then used watercolour pencils for the colour.
Our next swap on Facebook is to represent "Winter". At first I found this difficult, then started to look at images of bare trees, which became my inspiration. I created some watercolour backgrounds, some with luminous effect and went from there. Below is a selection of some of them.
Wondering what to do with old ZIAs, decided to use them for Christmas cards!
In Australia Spring continues to bless us with colour and more colour! I am continually amazed at the beauty of flowers. Here I have one of my rose bushes and some ground cover which, when the sun is directly on it, seems to glow with quite a brilliance.
I hope I have brought you some colour and inspiration today!
Wow! All your tiles are so great! I really LOVE those vibrant colors you use! Well done.
ReplyDeleteWow! Love the color version and great cards! Someone is going to be very pleased to get them in the mail. I sighed at the roses... My poor bushes have been tipped into the ground for the winter. I can almost smell them.
ReplyDeleteLovely tiles, especially the ones with the trees!
ReplyDeleteThese tiles are great. Very clean lines and elegant.
ReplyDeleteI love the way colour transformed the challenge tile, but I do love the trees. Bit tough to be thinking of Winter in all our lovely spring sunshine :)
ReplyDeletenice tile - I really like the coloured one - it is so vibrant - those trees are fabulous - so stark and yet so pretty
ReplyDeleteYour coloured work is so pretty!
ReplyDeleteWonderful challenge Tile. So much motion and movement. Love all of your patterns, colors, and shading. Terrific post. Wonderful Winter Tiles. Love those trees. Great Idea using tiles on greeting cards. Love the flowers, I feel refreshed.
ReplyDeleteBoth tiles look great. The US is currently in the throws of its first cold snap. Our colors are the reds and golds. Like the way that you used these tangles in your tile.
ReplyDeleteWow. Color really makes a difference. In a day that feels a lot like winter here in Philadelphia in the northeastern US, the color actually lifted my spirits---along with those beautiful flowers. Thanks for sharing them.
ReplyDeleteLove your ZIA trees! And the colors of the challenge are a plus!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely post. Like your idea to use old tangles as card embellishments. I like your response to the DIva's challenge and the colored one is really pretty.
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