Challenge #104 - UMT with tangle WHYZ

Version 1 - Hi-C, Dansk, Inapod, Printemps,
Rain, WHYZ, and Zedbra

Version 2 - WHYZ, Quabog, Voga, Buttons and thread
with some Mooka curves
The Diva's challenge this week is a UMT challenge and features Janee MacKugler, CZT's tangle WHYZ.  Check out her blog instructions. I was so excited to see her featured on this week's Diva challenge. She was one of my fellow classmates at the CZT #6 training in May of 2010. I had corresponded with and "met" her online via the Diva's challenge before I went to the training in Whitinsville, it was so great to meet her in person. We all bonded and had such a wonderful time with Rick and Maria at the last training held in Oakhurst in Whitinsville. We laughed and shared such wonderful creative energy at that training. It was a once in a lifetime experience!

I found WHYZ a little challenging. I'm not very good with structured tangles but this one lends itself beautifully to tangelations. I just let it flow and kept reminding myself that there are no mistakes in the Zentangle process, and let the process guide me. 


My first version of WHYZ I kept all my "twists" going in the same direction and tried to "pop" the triangles with black and highlights. A little dark but I like the overall effect. I used Hi-C, Rainz, Inapod, Printemps, Tipple, WHYZ, and Zedbra. I enjoy the openess and the ruffle edging created by Inapod.


On my second version I concentrated on Janee's triangles and using the "Y's" to create diamond patterns. I love this concept and it was fun to see what happened. WHYZ is such a structured elegant pattern so I tried to offset it with the more organic tangles and make it all flow together. Not totally successful, but it was a fun exercise. I used buttons, thread, Voga, some Mookaisms, Quabog, and some Zingers. I hope Janee doesn't mind my divergences on her pattern. It was so much fun to play with!

19 comments:

  1. Dani, they are so beautiful in flowing amazing tangle!

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  2. I have really been fascinated by how differently we can interpret "whyz". I think that makes this a pretty unique tangle. Your tiles show this off beautifully.

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  3. I agree with the two comments above! Great job on this tile.

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  4. I totally agree with Susan at how differently we interpret the pattern Whyz!! These examples are so different again. Very nice.

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  5. Yay, Danni! These are wonderful! How fun to see what you have created. Thanks for doing such a fine job with my complicated tangle. It always makes me think, which I like.

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  6. I agree it was a tough one to crack. You have done such interesting variations, so beautiful.

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  7. Love the touch with the threaded buttons!

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  8. These are so interesting! The first more solid and masculine in feel and the second softer and feminine. Really beautifully done. I love your inapod in the first one, and your squares with the y's making diamond shapes are so cool.

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  9. Fantastic. Love the arrangement too.

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  10. Both are very, very beautiful and different.

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  11. Wow they both are very beautiful and creative!

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  12. Wow Daniele, Your tiles look beautiful. Your drawing or shading technique is so great, your tile have a very delicate touch. Love them.

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  13. Both of your tiles are super. I love the boldness of the first and the flow of the second.

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  14. I was thinking of WHYZ as strictly flat and background-y...but wow you have made it wonderfully 3D in that first tangle.

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  15. Both are very nice, but the second one is my fav!!

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  16. Lovely tiles showing various possibilities of Whyz :)

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  17. Fantastic way of interpreting Whyz. Love both.

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  18. Ok wow! I love your designs! Very nice linework and compositions. Great, love, awesome.

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