We each had hand-lettered place cards, and got to take home a coaster. The cats on the coaster are smitten kittens, which is what Cheyenne’s daughter called Cheyenne and Renee.
As we went to our table Matt said, “Look, it’s that drawing thing you do!”
And it turns out that Cheyenne also Zentangles!
That tangle in the lower right-hand corner is called ‘Nzpple, and when learning it, I was told it would really pop when done. I very much doubted that would be the case as I worked through it, but when I was finished, pop it did!
More Rixty practice with some stripes. I try to repeat the new tangles that I learn several times until they are solid in my head.
Here I am practicing Rixty, that triangle branch shape tangle.
More meetings…
More meetings. This was the last week of the main meetings.
I like the river of spheres in this one.
In this one, I went and picked a bunch of tangles that I don’t do as often.
I enjoy the vertical nature of this one.
This may have been the point when I learned Bronx Cheer. It’s that berry-looking one in the middle, and it’s the tangle that lets you color over things you don’t like.
More meetings! I like how I carried the curved lines through different sections.
In this one, I was shading the same tangle in different ways.
I can also tell that the above is a homemade tile. Bit of a cutting error at the top.
Here’s another one with same tangle, different shading. More successful, I think.
This is much larger than real life, it’s the artist trading card size. I did it during a long meeting at work. Also, I have glasses now, and still this is out of focus! Grrr.
I asked Matt if he wanted to do a fun advent project, the Advent of Tess, where we fold Origami Tessellations every day. Matt said yes, I’ve been going through the Foundations course. It’s kind of a lot, complicated by the fact that I’ve been using brown kraft paper, which I first must cut to size.
But here I have completed one of the first foundations projects, an example of pleat reordering. I had to have Matt help me, but I got it done. This is a 32×32 grid, which is a lot to fold before you even get to the pleat reordering.
I messed up in the middle; the horizontal middle band is supposed to be 2 grids, not three, but other than that, I did it. Onto the next thing.
This one looks a little like a map in the back of a fantasy novel.
