LATEST ZENTANGLES IN ACRYLIC INKS

Sorry not been adding to my blog much of late, seems life has taken over since our return from Luxembourg with Clive's birthday celebrations both lunching with friends and having family over for the weekend, visit to hospital for my knee problem and a wonderful evening at a Norwich Theatre for the excellent play Pitmen Painters, about a real group of miners from the North East of England (with amazing strong accents!!) in the thirties who took on art appreciation classes and ended up becoming famous painters.

I had not lifted a brush in ages and then one evening felt 'deprived' so while Clive watched a movie on the TV, I brought down my zentangle sketchbook and doodled. Here are the results. Each one was coloured in later in my little upstairs study with smooth, vibrant Acrylic inks. All had been drawn with a size 0.5 Hi TecPoint black pen that was not waterproof, so had to be careful when adding the coloured inks.


Number One did not look much until I added the colour and being transluscent allowed the pen shading and designs to show through.

Number two looks a bit mad!!! Started with the two groups of circles in the middle and worked out. Where the houses came from I've no idea, nor the strange floating canoe shape. Bit if fun though.
Finally, number three was more controlled starting with the basic leaf pattern and worked with the pen into it including lots of areas of cross hatching. Then restricted the number of colours over the top.

I am now working on a new piece for the Elements Exhibition inspired by the irrigation systems in the fields around this area of Norfolk.