Pair-a-ducks or Paradox? Week 38

Well, I got just a little behind on the Diva challenges, so I'm just now getting last week's posted. It took me longer than I thought it would, thanks to my 'brilliant' idea of using multiple colors. I'm happy with the result, but I do admit that alternating between the blue and black microns got a bit tedious and I'm glad to be done with it. I still love doing paradox, but it'll be a while before I do multi-color again in this manner. :D

Drawn on bristol smooth, circle is about 5 inches diameter.

Color it in

The folks over at Letraset are running a coloring challenge, and I'm finally getting a chance to post my entry.



I printed their template out at about 4x6, and colored it using my Tombow markers with some Sakura glaze pens as a resist for some of the highlights.

Kiss my (belated) Grids -- challenge 37

Thanks to my internet going down this last week, I wasn't able to get my grids entry posted in time for last week's challenge.  But, I see mine aren't the only late entries trickling in.  I guess someone made a labyrinth for their grid string and our entries are still trying to  figure out their way through it.

Okay, so it worked better in my head :p

I went with a more relaxed pace and feel to this one after having just finished the more mentally-intensive ZIA for Neil Burley's giveaway. (See my previous post).

It was drawn on the Rhodia dot-pad, using a random swirly strings to define the sections to fill in.  My attempts at randomizing which pieces would go where just didn't stick.  So this ended up being a semi-random draw of patterns that were placed where the results would at least not clash too horribly.

Perfectly Formed entry

Neil Burley over at Perfectly4med is running a contest for a ZIA he drew using all of his published patterns to date.

I finally have finished my entry. :)

Here's the completed piece:



And just for fun, two pictures of the piece as I was working on it.



This is where I laid out every single one of Neil's patterns so I could decided which ones worked best for the project I had in mind.

And here's the fully drawn piece without shading.