My Pattern Mixer Merging Mixer Luv-a Ish Challenge Entry

Pattern Mixer Merging Luv-a Ish Challenge Entry, Pen © Diane Clancy

Incredibly Exciting New Challenge!!

Anya has created the fifth Zentangle challenge in German (don’t worry – she gives an English translation too 🙂 ) Anya has now translated her title into English and has a quick link right under the title to the English. That link goes to last month’s post but English is on the bottom half of the post so just scroll down. 🙂

I hope Anya doesn’t mind that I have quoted her extensively!!! I think this is a fabulous challenge and I want to share enough so you can see this is very doable and will be great fun to join in. To make it VERY clear – below is a very long quote from Anya – these are not my own words at all.

Pattern Mixer Merging Luv-a Ish Challenge

Each month the Anya puts out a challenge for folks to make their representation of her idea. April 2015 is the fifth challenge from Anya and Pattern Mixer!! This month is Pattern Mixer Challenge #5. So here is what Anya says this month “welcome to Pattern Mixer number 5! I don’t know about you people, but I could sure use some spring right about now. That’s why I’ve decided to pick something flowery this month. Remember my new pattern Ish that I introduced last week? Yup, perfect! And to go with it, something hearty and also flowery. Now go tangle us some spring!!

ATTENTION, please! While all tiles submitted in the last months were stunningly beautiful, there seems to have been some confusion about pattern mixing. Just drawing two patterns next to each other on a tile is called a Duo Tangle (and it can definitely be worth your while), but when we mix patterns, we go one step further. Pattern mixing means to merge two tangles, to intertwine them or even create a new tangle from the combination. I’ve drawn up a few examples for you here. Mixing patterns is not easy and you might even want to collect a few ideas or do a few sketches first. But it’s a real booster to yor creativity and it’s – well, a challenge!”

From Anna’s blog:

How do I mix the patterns?

Generally speaking, there are three basic ways of combining patterns and you should choose at least one of them for your tile.

1. Tangle in a tangle: You draw your first pattern a bit larger than you normally would and fill the empty spaces in your pattern with another tangle. Example

2. Combining elements: You take elements from one pattern and integrate them into the other tangle, thus creating a new pattern. Example

3. Merging: You make smooth transitions from one tangle pattern to the next, sort of letting one pattern melt into the next one. Like this.

Today’s patterns are:

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Luv-A

Ish

First time for the challenge? You can find the rules here.

So this is a little ZIA (Zentangle Inspired Art) merging and tangling within a tangle using Luv-a and Ish done by me.

Merging and Tangling in a Tangle Challenge

This one was a big challenge for me … but I think I did it :)  :)  I ended up doing Option #2 – creating a new pattern I believe.  It was fun once I got my head wrapped around what I needed to do 🙂 I hope you like it!!  Well, as I look more, maybe it is sort of Option #3 – merging Luv-a Ish … I am just not sure 🙂

Entries to Pattern Mixer

Anna has created a Pinterest board with all the Pattern Mixer entries included. Here is the Muster Mixer board. Some of the entries blow me away and inspire me so much!!

Zentangle Enticed Me

Zentangle has become popular the last couple of years and I have been intrigued and just starting put my attention to it. Spring may come some time – just starting to emerge from a very tough winter – in so many ways. Fingers crossed! I love this challenge – Anya is so very creative!!! So above is my Pattern Mixer Combining Luv-a Ish Tangle ZIA. This – of course – went in a very different direction than expected! Thank you to everyone who made comments on my posts these last weeks. That means a lot to me!!

Which Tangle is Which?

Ish is the wide bar from the bottom left corner to the top right corner.  The single flowers in the bar and the little arches next to them are also Ish.  But this is where the pattern changes as Luv-a Ish.  Instead of the rest of Ish, Luv-s emerges from those arches and spills down (or up) from them if that makes sense 🙂 🙂 There you have it!! 🙂

Diane & Carolien’s Weekly Zentangle Challenge

My friend Carolien and myself felt the need for having an extra Zentangle Challenge each week. Come join us in the fun!! Details at Diane & Carolien’s Weekly Zentangle Challenge.

My Studio and Thank You!

I am organizing my studio again to be able to work and now only a table has tons of stuff dumped on it – but the rest is organized!! (My studio always gets filled up when there are projects in the house that need a place to dump a bunch of stuff for awhile!! LOL!!) Thank you for stopping by!! I LOVE comments!! Thank you!!! ~ Diane Clancy

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