Tangles on Black

I Am the Diva Challenge #379 The Challenge: Create a holiday tile. Happy holidays everyone. I hope you are enjoying the season. In the holiday spirit, I have created a blinking image. I usually use software, Inkscape and Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, to create my tiles. One reason I create them this way is because Inkscape

Joey’s Weekly Challenge #197 The Challenge: Start by dividing the tile or page in half either vertically or horizontally. Then draw the string on both sides of the line. Tangle inside the string on one side and outside of the string on the other. The tangles are up to you. .

There are so many things to experiment with. So, for this tile, I thought, why not color? And, I allowed myself to go over the top. The tile uses a simple design, accentuated by the use of bright neon colors.

As a beginner artist, I am still learning and experimenting with different ideas. There are several tiles presented in this post and each of them represents the accomplishment of a different milestone in my development. I love drawings with a somewhat realistic bent, so the keys are my favorite, but giving the phicops the ability to spin was, also, a major accomplishment.

This is for the I am the Diva weekly challenge #344: use the tangle Afterglo, by Carole Ohl.  I created the image using a software package called Inkscape, placed it on a black background, and applied the filter Combined Lighting to each of the objects in the image to create a metallic effect.

This is for Joey’s Weekly Challenge #194: “use the word Joy on your tile and tangle around it using tangles that begin with the letter J.” I used  Japan Diamond, Jax, and Jujubeedze. I created the tile using Inkscape, placed the image on a black background, and used the filter Combined Lighting to create a

This is in response to the I am the Diva challenge #338. I was really happy about this challenge because I could do anything I wanted as long as I did it on a black background. I had doodled what you see below on a piece of scrap paper while watching an extremely boring television