Diva challenge no. 142: fengle & quandary duotangle

I can't believe it... two Diva challenges in two days! All is right with the world. 

This week's challenge- and it really was a challenge- is to draw a tangle using only fengle and (variations of) quandary. It's not exactly my favorite tile ever, but since Zentangle is about the process and not the product, I'm gonna go ahead and put it out into the tangleverse. This is a truly agonizing process for a perfectionist, because I can't stop thinking about how much better this would be if I'd just drawn ONE fengle with the other stuff radiating out from one central point. It's not that I hate this drawing... I'm just sayin'. 

. o O (Let it go, Sandy... just let it be what it is!)

I tinkered with this tile in photoshop and got a rather cool effect. Thanks to Laura for the challenge (and to Adobe for their 'glowing edges' filter. hee hee).

Well, I couldn't leave it alone after all... much happier with this one-- 

done with a micron, watercolor and a waterbrush, and one verrrry sparkly Swarovski crystal. 

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Weekly challenge #107: "New official tangle: Quandary"

Look, ma... no string.

A truly successful stringless tangle is pretty rare for me. That strong, silent little pencil line is as necessary to me as the tangle patterns themselves in keeping the zen/building a decent tangle. I have found that I really need that structure to work within. You know how wild those tangles can get if allowed to run unleashed... they need to be wrangled into some semblance of order, or they'll be chasing squirrels and stealin' ice cream cones in the park. :oD