PRACTICING IN THE DARK

Oh, how I love black.  I have a black couch.  I wear a lot of black.  And in my art projects, I am always drawn to things with very dark backgrounds.  The darker, the better. 

But give me a black tile to tangle on...suddenly it's not so easy!  It's very strange that I hardly ever tangle on black.  The paper on these tiles feels very different to me, much softer than that of the white tiles, almost "tender."  I find it more challenging to work with then the white.  Today I did a quick tangle-on-black in order to "warm-up" to working on the black Zendala® tile that I'll be doing next.

I'm so glad I decided to begin by just practicing, rather than starting right into the Zendala tile.  It's been quite a while since I have worked on a black tile and I had forgotten just about everything I ever knew.  (It may be time to focus on black and Renaissance tiles for a bit.)  Here is the result of my practice session today.  Many mistakes, and many lessons learned! 

The tangles are:  (top to bottom)
Meer
Flukes
Crescent Moon
Cooties
Flyte (adaptation)
Kringel

I pulled all of them off my iPhone's Tangle Library App, created by Sandy Steen Bartholemew.

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I was also trying out my new Uniball Signo Angelic pens, which have a thinner line than the Uniball Signo Broad I have found in many stores.  I'm liking them a lot.  Also in the picture are Prismacolor pencils for some shading.

More practice definitely needed.  I'm glad I chose the word "Practice" as my theme for 2015.  It's working for me on every level:  art, meditation, and life.