May Zentangles and Lunch Outdoors
/Continuing the blog post series prompted by COVID-19….
May 2020 Zentangle Tiles
I often do more than one tile a day, but I pick just one for each day to feature in the monthly post. Some of the tiles below were a response to a prompt…others were those extras that I did…or before the prompts started. Enjoy the 31 tiles of May!
All the rectangle tiles are made from pieces of light weight cardboard from between cans of cat food. I cut 3.5-inch strips with the paper cutter…and it makes a rectangle rather than a square. It’s not an intimidating size and results in 0 waste of the piece of cardboard. I like the color and texture of the cardboard. My favorite of this collection (shown at the left) is a simple pattern…FESCU and auras in two colors.
The brownish tiles are made from various recycled light weight cardboard (canned drink boxes, backs of tablets, etc). The yellow ones are recycled pocket folders. The blue tiles are purchased cardstock. The black tiles are made on the iPad with an Apple Pencil and the Procreate App.
The last two were ones that were unusual forms for me….making a Zentangle pattern around a watercolor book picture and
Using a calendar as a practice tile.
Both were memorable….making them part of the tiles selected for May.
Unique activities for yesterday:
Lunch outdoors. We are having our large meal of the day about noon these days. The day had warmed up to near perfect temperature by that time, so we took our plates outside to eat. The little breeze…bird song…absence of lawn mowers --- very pleasant. And it counted toward my goal of being outdoors for at least an hour every day!
Links to my previous “filling a day of social distance” posts here.
A Zentangle Prompt
Make a tile using these patterns: HEXONU, HURRY and MSST. Experiment with strings that divide the tile into 3 or 4 parts (4 if you want to make one of the patterns twice)!
Here are the tiles I made yesterday in response to the prompt: Try the SeZ pattern. I discovered that I tended to make too many seed dots….it’s better to have fewer….and maybe stop making circles sooner.
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