Celtic Challenge 28

Celtic Challenge 28

Hi All, I hope you had a great fortnight. Faith commented on my last challenge and gave us a very interesting idea to create a circular design using Cut Paper. I have used her idea to create this fortnights design. Thank you Faith.

My Challenge to you this fortnight is to decorate this design using only two colours. I used Red and Black in the design below.

A little bit of colour and design theory to help you create interest.

I used a contrast of solid colour and delicate patterns.

I used three sizes in pens to create different thicknesses of line.

I used shading to create depth.

I used lines going in different directions to create movement.

Because of the above some features in the design stand out more than others.

 All these things combined create a lot of interesting things to look at in a very small pattern. 

My Pattern I used is:
Rolling In - a variation

The other pattern I used:
A spiral repeated in various sizes. I have seen this often and am not sure if someone has claimed it as their design. If so let me know and I am happy to give them credit.

HAPPY DOODLING

MORE TRADING CARDS

Thank You Ladies

As I stated in an earlier post I have been involved in a trading card swap. It is a doodling/zentangles swap and in black and white.

Here are some more of the cards I received from around the world.

  

Some of the ladies decorated their envelopes as well, and some sent extra little treats inside like lovely cards to protect the trading cards.

It has been a fun swap and I can't wait to get the rest of them to show you.

HAPPY DOODLING

Celtic Challenge 27

Celtic Challenge 27

Hi all, hope you had a great fortnight. There were some interesting entries in the last challenge. 

Cora Lee commented on the last post that she did not have a printer and how could she draw it. At present I do not have time to issue drawing instructions with each challenge. 

My suggestion to Cora Lee and others in the same position is to copy my outline and email it to a friend who has a printer, so they can print it for you. In Australia some copy business will print items you email to them for you also. If anyone else has any ideas, could they please put it in the comments for others to see.

Below is your challenge for this week. I am asking those who have never done it before to come up with one of their own patterns to decorate part of the design. If you could name your pattern and draw up the steps that would be great also. Good luck.

Below is my finished version.

My patterns I used to decorate this design are:

Coral

Flaming Zig Zag

Half Flower - Variation

Wavy Lines - Variation

Full Flower - Variation

Hope you enjoy this pattern.

HAPPY DOODLING

Celtic Challenge 26

CELTIC CHALLENGE 26

Hi all, due to the increasing demands on my time to care for my sick husband, I am finding it a challenge to post on time. If I do not get it done on Friday it may be Saturday or Sunday before it is posted. I hope you don't mind but I do not have any other options here.

I am changing the challenges also. I will be doing a series of Celtic Mandalas for a while. I love the round shapes and I think from what I see on other sites and facebook and a lot of your do.

When time permits I will post on how to convert an ordinary Mandala outline to a Celtic one.

This challenge is to decorate the outline below with doodles and colour. 

The picture below is of the way I decorated this design.

My patterns I used are:

                        Little Heart - variation

                        Flames - variation

                        Hilly

                        Undergrowth - a variation

Please use Mr Linky below to show me samples of your work. I love to see what you come up with.

Your comments and samples of your work let me know that I should continue to do this. If it is something people are not interested in them I will stop. Your responses will give me an indication of whether I should continue with these challenges or not. Hope to here from you soon.

HAPPY DOODLING

Late Challenge

LATE CHALLENGE

Sorry I have not posted my challenge yet. I had a unexpectedly long day yesterday and did not walk in the door until 7.30 pm. I hope to get it up for you today.

HAPPY DOODLING

Celtic Challenge 25

Celtic Challenge 25

The challenge I have for you this fortnight is to create an authentic Celtic design. It is called a Celtic Triskele and one of the earliest examples of this is in the late 6th century on the Meigle Stone from Scotland.

It is a very simple shape but very beautiful and appears in many variations in celtic work.  

Celtic Challenge 25 A

Copy the outline below and decorate it.

Celtic Challenge 25 B

Follow my distructions below to draw your own Triskele and then decorate it.

Draw the whole diagram in pencil first.

Draw three dots that represent the 3 points of the Triskele. They need to be equal distance apart as in the points of an equaliteral triangle.

Draw a curved line from one point to the next arching the curve at least half the distance from the bottom to the top dot.

Repeat this step twice more.

Draw a continuous parallel line on the outside of the line already drawn.

Mark out where you want the over and unders to be on the cross over sections.

Now that you have finished the drawing. Redraw over the pencil lines in pen and rub out any pencil left showing.

You are now ready to decorate your Celtic Triskele.

This is how I decorated mine.

My patterns I used are:

Sizemick

Spiral Bumps - a new pattern

Spiral Bumps Distructions

HAPPY DOODLING

Airbrushed Backgrounds

Airbrushed Backgrounds

I have been taking airbrushing classes as you may have seen in a previous post. I have been itching to do some backgrounds. 

I sat down with my new airbrush I got for my Birthday this week and started playing with an assortment of stencils.

My idea is to approach the airbrushing the same way I approach doodling. No set plan. Let us see what happens as I go. 

I have not got what I would say is a good assortment of colors for my brush as yet, but I played with what I had.

After completing the backgrounds I started doodling over the top and had a great time. Because the paint is water based and goes on in very thin layers, the micron pens work easily over the top.

Here are the results.

I would be interested in what you think of the idea of random coloring first and them doodling over the top. 

Please give me some feedback.

HAPPY DOODLING