Daily Zen: 2018041801

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Amanda asked me, the other day about Indy-Rella. I told her I hadn’t used it very much because I always end up drawing it so tiny. She did it on a white tile, using black ink, making the elements rather large, which inspired me to try this. I started with the white pen. But I still didn’t get mine as larger as hers. So I thought it might be fun to add different color inks that would make it look like they were fading out on the tile.

I used the silver Slicci pen next, and then a few were done with what (I thought) was going to be a darker silver ink, from a Kaiser silver metallic pen. I stopped using that one because it took an hour to dry. That makes it not a good choice for tangling! Finally, I used the Kaiser black glitter.

Highlighting and shading were a bit tricky, because I couldn’t “rub” over the silver inks because I didn’t want them to smear. So I ended up using color pencil and kind of working between the lines for the most part.

I did get my tangle elements a bit larger, and I like the final results!

Zentangle drawn on Fabriano Black Black using white Sakura Gelly Roll, silver Pentel Slicci and black Kaiser Glitter pens. Shading and highlighting done with colored pencils.

Tangles: Indy-Rella