"No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys."
Douglas Horton
The Diva's challenge this week is to use the pattern Crazy 'Nzeppel. It's a variation of plain old 'Nzeppel which is a grid based tangle. The crazy variety is based on random lines rather than a grid. I've always called it Random 'Nzeppel and am not really sure when it got the crazy label.
Anyway, I used one of my colored tiles as shown here.
I started by tangling 'Nzeppel, then added Clob and a few bits of Tipple.
At this point I wasn't too sure that I liked it, but ah! The magic of shading!
Now I like it much better. I could have done the shading in color to go with the colored tile. And I probably would have, except for the fact that I don't have my preferred supplies for color shading (pastel pencils) with me right now. So I went with plain old graphite, which worked out pretty well.
"Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous." Bill Moyers
Way back in May I realized it had been a really long time since I had worked on a Ben Kwok template. So I decided to do one of his mandalas. But then began my crazy summer, and it wasn't until last week that I got back to this zendala that was started so long ago.
Here is a picture of Ben's template that I began with.
A few lines were left out so that I wouldn't have spaces that were too tiny to tangle. Here's what it looked like after I finished tangling.
I began shading but paused after the center area was done so I could share the half shaded zendala with you. It's always so interesting to see the difference a bit of graphite can make.
Then I completed the shading, which took quite some time, and here's the final zendala.
Not bad, but I have to admit that after having this one laying around for so long I'm looking forward to moving on to something else!
