Black on Black

Over the last few days I have been playing around with a new idea for a black tile class. I wanted to see what a tile would look like if I used a black SakuraⓇ Glaze pen for drawing tangles on a black tile.

Following the ZentangleⓇ method I began with my four dots and string. Then I switched to using the black glaze pen to draw the tangles.  Using the glaze pen gives a shiny light to the tangles, which you can't really see in the photos. Also being black on black, the tiles still needed some more contrast to make the tangles stand out on the tile and look even more interesting. The Zenstone was my choice for contrast, but instead of using it to shade the tangles I decided to use it to fill sections of each tangle.

Here is the first tile I produced using the glaze pen & Zenstone. It certainly has a different look to using the white gel pen on the black tiles.

And here is my second tile.

For my next tile I decided to combine my explorations of black on black with the Diva challenge. This weeks challenge is to use Noom, a new tangle introduced at the ZenAgain seminar in 2016.

 With this tile you can really see the black string lines through the white Zenstone. I think next time I will not use the lead pencil and just begin tangling. Other than the lead string lines showing I really like how this tile looks.

I would love to see what you can do if you try black on black.

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Enjoy your tangling journey.