Monday 16 July 2012

Rock Pool Twinchie

When I first saw the subject of Summer for the second Twinchie challenge I didn't think I'd be entering anything. I'm not quite sure how it came about but I found myself thinking about looking into a rock pool to find shells - a typical summer pastime when holidaying by the sea &, since I had a vague recollection of seeing some kind of shell tangle somewhere, that's where I began.

tangles: Sanibelle, Squid
I recently ordered the Official Zentangle® Kit from TanglePatterns.com run by Linda Farmer as I was particularly attracted by the idea of the 20-sided die & Zentangle Legend™ that it contains. At the moment Linda includes an interactive e-book (emailed as a pdf file) of official tangles with purchases from her site. As I've already received the pdf file I printed it out & had a look through. It's a lovely comprehensive graphic guide - as is Linda's web site which I find myself turning to as well as the Suzanne McNeill books. Imagine my delight when I saw several shell patterns & then stumbled upon this rather magnificent squid. So here I am entering a tangled Summer Twinchie after all - I do hope it is acceptable to enter tangled Twinchies as I can see me doing this upon a regular basis now that I think there might be a way of interpreting the challenge themes.

Challenge Entered

16 comments:

Zoe said...

This is very clever Paula, I can see the summer! Thank you for entering our second challenge, good luck. Zoe xxx

andrea said...

Stunning,what a gorgeous Twinchie thankyou for joining us in our challenge
Andrea

Barbara said...

Very clever, and so dramatic in black and white xx Barbara xx

Aquarius said...

Well done for that bit of lateral thinking on the summertime challenge. This is another great tangle.

Sally H said...

Stunning, Paula! What a clever design. I love it

Kathryn said...

Wow Paula this is fabby xxxx I'm having a go at a twinchie too lol x

Donalda said...

Girl this is just awesome. I love it. Hugs

Suze Bain said...

This is such a clever idea. your zentangling is great. I love it. x

GinaA said...

Hi Paula, tried to post a comment yesterday via iPhone - failed miserably. I think this is a lovely tile and I just love the Sanibelle tangle, squid is so appropriate as well. Nice one.

Lorraine said...

oh hun this is fab your really getting good at pep tangles i love it and i really hope you have heaps of fun when your new kit arrives xx

Eileen said...

Very clever work here Paula.. so attractive and right on the button for our theme! Eileen x

Sarn said...

WOW - this is a brilliant Tangle Twinchie and I think it's perfect for the theme.

I drew my first Mooka Tangle today . . . quite pleased with it.

Hugs
Sarn xxx

Linda said...

Wow! This is fabulous, and all on 2" square - very clever. xx

craftimamma said...

This is a fabulous entry for the challenge Paula. I can see you are really getting to grips with this particular style of art.

Hugs
Lesley Xx

xxxtglxxx said...

This looks brilliant, and definately my fave so far! :) Love the fluidity of it and those deco shells on the border, its awesome! :)

hugs

xxalisonxx

Alice said...

i've been interested in twinchies - glad to see one here! i'll have to check out this challenge site. what do you work on? do you use regular sized paper? or do you just block a 2" square on your paper?