A tribute to Maria's tangles

For those who know me... I am this fabulous thing called Dial UP???  Not so great.. as it is very limiting to me... but I am dealing with it the best I can... I love where we live...so that really does compensate for the mess of dial up...  

Anyway... you also know I use a lot of words ... but I will try to keep this as few as possible...  

This week on I am the Diva, Laura has given us the Challenge to go out of the BOX....  I try all the time to stay as much out of the box as possible.. but have been really thinking about this... and came up with this...  

One thing that I really have trouble with is going to blogs... and I really want to see things... so where do you start...  at the beginning...  so I went to Maria and Ricks site... ZENTANGLE.blogspot.com  (all small letters... )  anyway... it took over 7 hours for me to download the site... but I got a lot of things done while it was downloading...  wash, cooked, cleaned a little bit.. not too much... and folded laundry... etc etc...  also played in the studio a little bit...  

After it was all down loaded.. .I had a feast and a half... eye candy plus... yikes... I love the way Maria TANGLES...  so very fluid and free...  your spirit must be the same Maria...  love it...  

So I tried to absorb some of it... but I printed it out and studied it all and finally realized that there was another area that I needed to try...  one was on black... and the other was to use purk like Maria did and create some things that moved with this tangle..  I love purk... I have never seen the video... (duh... dial up???  and videos are a no no issue plus!!!!)   but I have seen the ones on the tanglepatterns.com... and so I have become familiar with this tangle... and have to say that I do love it... you can see it on the other entry for this weeks challenge...  

I told you I used a lot of words... stop complaining... this is very special...  as I have finally downloaded a blog and have been able to see a whole new area of growth in myself...  LOL..  

So here... finally are a few of the things that came from that...  

I also drew the circles in the opposite direction...  usually I draw them as you would in writing... which is counter clock wise... I drew them clockwise... so I had to think about that...  

 So I started to play with Purk...  as I go along hopefully you will see what I learned from Maria's GREAT Tangles... I love the freedom and wanted to find that in my purks too...  

I think I did...  

 Maria has some that have all these great ones... turning and posing in all kinds of ways...  

I also had to experiment with the shading too... 

 The Daisy in all its glory... with a nice purk frame too...  a little bit different but... sort of a purky little thing... 

 And then I got into the Black paper with the white pen...  

My pen is sort of old.. .and the ink didn't flow as nicely as I would really have liked it... but hey...  I worked around that ...  and love these...a little different than I normally do... but that is what going out of the BOX is all about... right??? 

  Maria, has a gray pen... and I will have to look for one... but I used an Inktense gray pencil... and then used a little water to activate the color deeper...  and then accented with the white...  

I really had fun with this.. So thank you Maria for the eye candy and all the wonderful examples you have displayed on your blog...  I love the STEP signage too... really wonderful..  love it all... you really give from the heart.. thanks!!!  

I will try and down load a few more blogs when time allows... but when I do this, I have to go to that blog all the time... or else I loose the info that was downloaded and have to start all over...  at least I now have three that I can go to regularly...   The Divas, The Bright Owl... and Now ZENTANGLE.... yeah...  what fun this is..  

Well today is a very busy day for me... and I hope to get it all done.. I just wanted to say thanks for all the wonderful comments that have been made on the entries this week for the other challenges... Thanks a million... I love you all... and really wish I could see all the wonderful things that you are creating too..  someday maybe I will be able too..  

Have a wonderful full day of creating and enjoying life... 
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie