Zendala Dare #88
This is my first completed Zendala Dare; template is available through The Bright Owl. The templates are outline zendalas ready to download, print and tangle. I think the most amazing thing about this process is the zendala you start with sometimes ends barely resembling the original. And the tangles create the magic with color placement.
If you compare the original template #88 from The Bright Owl, you can see the dramatic difference just in the addition of three tangle patterns with the picture below.
There are only three tangle patterns used here; Paradox, Girders (used in the center) and a fan type fill I used at the top of each segment. Paradox is available here on YouTube. Paradox provides many varied and interesting results based on the shape you start with. If this statement sounds confusing, watch the video and it will become more clear. I started thinking I was going to apply color in a certain way and when I set the piece down and then walked by it later, the sections popped out at me in a completely different way. So that's what I went with.
After printing the zendala outline on an ink jet printer, I used Canson semi-transparent marker paper as an overlay and traced the zendala in non-photo blue pencil. After all of the tangle patterns were added I photo copied the piece onto Xpress It Cardstock (specifically made for Copics) and added my color. I also applied the same color technique to the Canson which works very nicely and saves a photocopy step. Both papers are great with inks.
Color was applied with Copic markers: R22, R24, R29, BG10, BG13, BG25, V12, V15, V17, YR21, YR23, YR24 with warm grays in W1, W3, W5 and W7.
Tangles patterns drawn with a Micron .01 pen.
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