Challenge #19-More Morris 2nd tile

I had so much fun playing with this new process the 1st time, that I just had to try again.  This time I took a piece of black paper and tangled on it with a white gelly roll pen.  Then in the background I tangled all one pattern with a silver pen to give it a little more contrast.  After looking at a lot of images by William Morris, it was hard to not tangle something organic, since most of his work is floral and leafy, not to mention gorgeous.  Having fun, enjoying the process!  Thanks again, Laura & Maria! 

Challenge #19-More Morris

Awhile back, Rick and Maria did a wonderful post on their blog about William Morris  who was a wonderful textile designer, artist, and writer.  Maria showed us her technique of using a white gelly roll pen on black.  When you scan the Internet on all of the wonderful work William Morris did, it becomes a little overwhelming.  This weeks Diva challenge was to use the William Morris technique of light over dark.  I need to work with this technique a little (ha-a lot) more.  It's hard to get the gelly roll pens to be as precise as the Microns.  I'm not sure now that I look at this tile again, if I filled in enough light on dark.  It's was hard to decide how much to do without totally loosing the verdigogh tangle.  Anyway, it was fun to try something new and I will definitely be trying more!  For someone without an art background, I love that Rick and Maria are always taking it up a notch and introducing us to artists and how we can apply their work to Zentangle.  I also love these challenges from Laura Harms, the diva.  Thank you all!