Catching up: Project Pack 06 and Organic Borders

When I last posted, I shared some tiles I had done as part of my study of Margaret Bremner. Here are a couple more.

My Zendala Moments 07 post used a technique that was featured in the Project Pack 06, where white pages or tiles are stained with black ink. I altered that idea slightly by taking black and white squares, cutting them into irregular shapes and then putting them back together. This tile followed Maria's lesson, using ING and Printemps. Somehow, my tiles didn't quite fit together, so I placed a yellow paper behind them to highlight the "mistake", and remind me of Kintsugi, a tradition where Japanese artists mended broken pots with gold.

As I followed along with the Project Pack videos, I worked on an ensemble of 4 "spliced" black and white tiles. This was lots of fun!

Eni Oken's Organic Borders ebook gave me my next inspiration. This technique of creating borders much as you would create a floral bouquet is a little more challenging than the Zentangle cartouche technique, but still relaxing. 

I like this technique so much that I decided to create a sampler of my favorite elements on a Zentangle spinner template that I had.

Now, I'm gearing up for InkTober2019 and tangling on some lovely autumn leaves. (After a wet spring and summer, we've hit a dry spell. I wonder if there will be supple leaves to tangle?) I hope you'll check back to see what we come up with!