25,000 blog views – and unique giveaway #2

Posted on 20th August 2011 by perfectly4med

Ok, so I’m guessing it will be at some point while I’m asleep tonight, but I couldn’t wait a moment longer before sharing my celebratory prize with you! In recognition of a fantastic 25,000 views in less than six months, I have created my largest zentangle-inspired artwork (ZIA) to date. And it’s a giveaway!

Entitled ’71’, this A3-sized pen and pencil ZIA contains all seventy one tangle patterns I’ve published on this blog. This unique prize can be yours!

To have a chance of winning this one-of-a-kind prize, all you need to do is to create your own ZIA incorporating only patterns from my blog and share it with me by posting a link to your blog entry (preferred) or emailing a scan/photo of your creation via the link at the top of the sidebar (if you don’t have a blog). I don’t mind how many of my patterns you use, nor what size of ZIA you create. I hope to be able to create a gallery on my blog of all the entries to this challenge, celebrating your artistic exuberance. And to be fair to all-comers, I’ll select the winner by random draw of all entries. Entries close at 23:59 GMT on Saturday 10th September.

And thank you all for your interest, encouragement and for following my blog for the last five months 🙂

Unique Giveaway #2 – spoiler alert ;)

Posted on 15th August 2011 by perfectly4med

Dear readers,

I’m about to reach 25,000 views of my blog

In honour of the phenomenal hit rate to my blog, I’m creating another unique zentangle-inspired artwork to give away. In less than six months since I started, I’m about to reach 25,000 views of my blog, with a current record of 624 views in a single day! Now in the grand scheme of things that’s not a lot of hits compared to say, Google, but it’s exciting to me!

So… the spoiler alert? I’m going to create my biggest tangle to date, incorporating all of my tangle patterns – and then I’m going to give it away. Watch out for the pictures, and I’ll launch the give away proper when the blog counter reaches 25,000 🙂

And hopefully by then I’ll have got the hang of actually handing on the give away!

Waterlily – tangle pattern

Posted on 7th August 2011 by perfectly4med

Day Seven: another Mehndi inspired pattern, this flower shape reminded me of the best waterlilies. Remind me to show you how to make 3D versions out of punched paper… Couple of guidelines for this: it doesn’t matter how many scollops you have in the outer border and the lines in step 5 curve to meet the base of the line starting two scollops before to make the coloured in segment.

That wraps up this week’s daily tangles, hope you’ve enjoyed them.

Walled Garden – tangle pattern

Posted on 6th August 2011 by perfectly4med

Day Six: another Mehndi design, this complex seeming pattern is ideal for a tangle centrepiece. The pattern is essentially repeated variations on a border pattern built into overlapping shapes, as are many Mehndi patterns.

Tomorrow’s final instalment for this week’s daily doses: ‘Waterlily’.

Flower Whorl – tangle pattern

Posted on 5th August 2011 by perfectly4med

Day Five: this is another design from the Mehndi tradition, giving lots of opportunity to fill space and abandon geometry. A couple of guidelines: three branches per flower coming from the same spot – they are meant to whorl round, but not always easy to do… The leaves occur on just one side of each branch.

Tomorrow’s concentric centrepiece: ‘Walled Garden’.

Swizzlestik – tangle pattern

Posted on 4th August 2011 by perfectly4med

Day Four: based on Mehndi designs, this tangle pattern comes in two variations. The trick to this is to have one of the chain loops drawn within the vertical bar when crossing over the top. Lots of opportunity to shade this one to help give more depth to your pattern.

Tomorrow’s loveliness: ‘Flower Whorl’.

Cowrie – tangle pattern

Posted on 3rd August 2011 by perfectly4med

Day Three: based on Mehndi designs, this pattern reminded me of the cowrie shells I came across when living in the Middle East as a child.

Tomorrow’s bit of tangle heaven: ‘Swizzlestik’.

Ovate – tangle pattern

Posted on 2nd August 2011 by perfectly4med

Day Two: another daisy-based tangle pattern, in part inspired from Mehndi designs and in part original doodle.

Tomorrow’s dose of tangle delights: ‘Cowrie’.

Jumping Beans – tangle pattern

Posted on 1st August 2011 by perfectly4med

Well dear reader, welcome to another week of daily tangle goodness 🙂

This first pattern is direct from a childhood memory of a small ball bearing in a capsule simulating a Mexican jumping bean. Just one rule with this – make sure the ‘ball’ is consistently placed by gravity, only horizontal capsules can have the ball placed anywhere. Fill in the gaps with movement lines.

Tomorrow’s pattern: ‘Ovate’.

Rokpool – tangle pattern

Posted on 10th July 2011 by perfectly4med

Day Seven: I’ve saved my favourite until last… Rokpool developed from a sketch twice the size, but I couldn’t tell what fit into the gap between what became mussels neatly lined up. So I shrank the sketch down, and added the ripples. I love the pattern that resulted, and it reminds me of woodcut type patterns.

There you go, another week of daily patterns is over. I hope you enjoyed them!