Challenge #21 Rixty

If you have not researched zentangles you probably don't know who Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas are.  They are the creators of the zentangle method.  Rick just turned sixty and the RIXTY is a tangle design in celebration of his 60th birthday.  Our first official challenge for 2014 is to include the pattern Rixty in our zentangle.  To find out more about Rick and Maria, google zentangle.com. 

Welcome Kate, to the Twin Tangle (+one) blog.

Rixty by me:

Rixty by Jay:

Rixty by Kate:

Easter is here and the next challenge has an egg component!  

Challenge #20 Living Things

Finally I am back.  My twin and I have had a busy winter since the holidays and we didn't find the time to tangle.  We never stopped thinking about ideas and Jay even bought a new book for her zentangles but we just couldn't get ourselves organized.  I was busy sewing fur mitts for family members and Jay had taked on two new jobs but now we are back in business.  We even have a new challenge member, Kate, my daugher.  She bought herself some new markers and a nice notebook and she wants to tangle.  Welcome to the obsession, Kate.

I have one challenge to catch up on and that was the challenge of using the outline of a shape.  I used a dragonfly and Jay used a rabbit.  Here they are:

Challenge #19 Repeating Pattern

This Christmas week the challenge is to pick one pattern and repeat that pattern throughout the Zentangle.  

Mine:

Jay's:

The Winter Solstice

"Here Comes the Sun"

The days are getting longer.  We are getting 5 hours of sunlight in the NWT.  Jay is getting 6 hours in Edmonton.

Here are our zentangles to celebrate the sun:

Mine

Jay's

Challenge #18 The Winter Solstice

Both my sister and I have moved farther north then we have ever lived.  Jay is in northern Alberta and I am in the Northwest Territories.  Our days have gotten shorter and shorter and next Saturday is the shortest day of the year.  Here is a picture from our house at 12 noon, last week.

That is as high as the sun got on that day.  This week it will be even lower!

So our challenge this week is to celebrate the sun and all its beauty.  And next week the days will start getting longer.  Yeahhhhhh...

Border Zentangle

Here are our border zentangles.  Borders are fun to do because the space is small and easy to fill.

This is mine:

Here is Jay's:

Challenge #17 Borders

The challenge this week is to create borders within borders. There are lots of patterns for tangled borders on line.  We don't want to hem you in, we just want you to play with some borders.