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Tea Bag Envelopes - Part 52

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Some more tea bag envelopes, some more new patterns. Same as usual. Here we have a Fescu tangleation, but soon the variation will be more complicated, so... worth a pattern! Gescu, Queen's Crown, Flux, Tipple, Circus, Knase. 11 February 2026 This looks a bit like Sand Swirl Tree but not really. Keeping it as Fescu. Flux, Fescu. 11 February 2026 And here the more complex Fescu tangleation I was talking about before. Gescu. 12 February 2026 Finery, Flux, Molygon. 13 February 2026 Another new pattern here... Stalag, Pangea, Ciottoli, Fescu. 13 February 2026 And here we have Ann, a tangle from the only tangler from Berlin I know! :) Ann, Gescu, Finery, Wadical, 'Nzeppel, Marasu, Printemps. 13 February 2026 My Patterns Ciottoli Gescu Stalag Zentangle Original Patterns 'Nzeppel Fescu Finery Flux Knase Marasu Molygon Pangea Printemps Tipple Wadical Other Patterns Ann Circus Queen's Crown

Flook - the sweetest hooks

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Another flower that came out in my tea bag envelopes, if I recall correctly. A flower with fescu hooks, how to call it if not Flook? Hmmm...  I start thinking that my pages are nice but do not look so well in the blog. I should start "dividing the tiles". Flook deconstruction page. 24 January 2026 Ok, I have also made the pics lighter, but probably they are easier to see, esp if you are checking the blog from a mobile phone. But I also like to have the whole pic. Maybe I will use both. I probably will never find the time to add pictures for the old posts, but if you want to see better any past pattern just let me know in the comments and I will add the tiles one by one for that specific pattern.  Flook deconstruction Some variations Flook, Corfo, Toodles. Flook, Printemps Tangleation of Flook and Cospi, Crescent Moon, Ciottoli, Suan Flook, Manair, Meer, Printemps, Pokeroot, Pe-Tree. And as usual, some tea bag envelopes... Flook, Sampson, Flux, Tipple, 14 January 2026 Fronde, ...

Tea Bag Envelopes - Part 51

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Oh my, I so much want to get all the tea bag envelopes, with the oldest ones of course I can tell less stories about the creation process, because I cannot remember it. But I also want to tangle, so it is a race against me! :D On the other side, I am a bit more conservative with new patterns, and decide not to add all new lines to the new patterns in my brain storming pages. I am also behind thered. You cannot do everything... Sp-Eye-Ril, Keena, Tipple, Foon. 4 February 2026 IX, Static, Flux, 4 February 2026 Irradial, W2, Ciottoli, Flux, Sez, Irradial, Manair, Static, Pokeleaf. 5 February 2026 Tamisolo, Sez, Printemps, Golicus. 5 February 2026 This is the last tea bag envelope before the CZT seminar. Sez, Tipple. 5 February 2026 And this is the first after the seminar. The Ravel shock with the guided meditation was still heavy on me. Ravel, Fescu, Printemps, Tipple, Flux. 10 February 2026 Sez, Zapa, Colifescu. 11 February 2026 My Patterns Ciottoli Colifescu Foon Golicus Keena Zapa Zent...

Coloring - Part 6

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And today again some tiles to fill spaces in my album, at least at the beginning. This has actually the size of a phive tile, but without prestrings! I drew over the stains with red ink. I did the stains with the washing of some india ink and by rubbing together this tile with some that had some excess colors. That is why there are several different hues. I added some shading and highlights with graphite and white charcoal pencils. Curlyeboat, Hosopli, Ciottoli. 17 March 2026 Here a instagram contact reminded me of Chinar, and had to do a monotangle! Chinar. 17 March 2026 And now, some more small tiles. I draw Toodles pretty often on bijou size tiles. Toodles, Sez. 17 March 2026 Not so convinced about the fillings, but it's ok. :D Wink, Flux, Toodles, Static, Sampson, Sez, Printemps. 18 March 2026 Here I started with Crescent Moon and drew light paradox lines over. There could be some breaks in paradox, since the lighting was not perfect. But this is part of the magic... I don'...

Coloring - Part 5

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Another post for colored tiles. Also today I did not feel like following any tutorials, even if at the end I stumbled on some tiles in Mosaic from somebody called Arale there, looked for one of the tiles with Google Images and ended up seeing the most beautiful tiles on Pinterest, by somebody else. Yet, lot of stuff with wonderful colors and interesting gems! Who knows, they could be inspiration for the next post about colored tiles! Here I did the first layer with metallic watercolor, with were not so interesting. I drew with metallic gel pens over it, but they don't really stand out in my opinion. Trikl, Ciottoli, Hollis.  I don't remember if I added some charcoal pencils on top, but it seems so, and I remember I went with the eraser to clean a bit the borders (yes, an eraser works relatively well on charcoal pencil dust). Then I turned the tile, drew more or less the same with a black felt tip pen, and drew some almost invisible flux with the pink gel pen.  Trikl, Hollis, F...

Coloring - Part 4

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While I can keep idle for ages for other sections of this blog, the coloring one must be done straight away, since I want to keep track of different stages and have to upload the pics more or less straight away. Here I still got some inspiration from  #tinpokeleaf  tiles. Pokeleaf, Tipple. 8 March 2026 Also adding the version taken with daylight, since the coloring is quite different and more similar to the real one! I did not want to color or shade the rest of the tile. Somehow I like it like this. Pokeroot, Flux, Jolly, Corfo. 8 March 2026 I worked on it at my tangle meeting, I need to work on it further with better lighting, the orange stain is pretty subtle and the shading and highlight done so far do not help much. Paradox. 8 March 2026 I started following a tutorial by Christina Carroll, but I had to wait for the tile to dry out. I used india ink instead of watercolors. And here the background! Done with black ink. Added some shadow, with charcoal pencils. Brown and dark...