Thursday, May 23, 2013

Ebony and Ivory



The latest challenge from 'the Diva' asks us to use black and white in equal measure. At first I wasn't too excited about this challenge and thought I might skip it. But wow, I'm glad I pressed on. The two tiles above show my second attempt first with my first attempt below. I thought I was way too busy in the bottom one. So while there is still a lot going on in the upper tile, I tried to stay with tangles that "played nice" with each other.


I meant to take a picture before I had any line work in at all, but at least you can see an early stage. Those of you that are quilters may recognize that I used a common quilting stencil to get my shapes in. I then used a black Sakura Identipen to color in the solid black sections. The Identipen is great for this because it has two nibs. The thin one helped me get the outlines in while the fat one filled in the sections quickly. I then went back to my regular micron for the black linework. The white line work was done with a white Sakura Gelly Roll pen. In the top tile you will also see a little shading. The regular pencil did the black while a white chalk pencil added highlights.


15 comments:

  1. WOW Sue!!! These are AWESOME! Each are equally wonderful ~ glad you decided to do the challenge and to share!

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  2. I particularly like the first one. But both are better than my efforts!

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  3. I love the shine on the first on but they are all great

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  4. Sue, these are fabulous! I love seeing your process.

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  5. Beautiful, especially the first one!

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  6. Wow, they are great. The first one is my favorite. It has a great balance between black and white.

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  7. I agree with every one else. The first one is my favorite, but they are all amazing. Thanks for explaining your process.

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  8. I have to throw my vote to the first one also as my favorite. The shine on the first one is great and I like all the line work and fill.

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  9. Oooh, I love the highlights and shadows of the top piece. This is a stunning interpretation of this challenge.

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  10. Thanks for sharing your process, and the photo and information about the identi-pen. I keep hearing about this pen but haven't seen it in my local stores. I'll search further for it. As with the others, I prefer the first because the main pattern is more determined (and it does sort of look like a quilted piece), but your second is more subtle and delicate....

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  11. The first one is stunning, although the other ones are beautiful too.

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  12. Wonderful idea to use zendalas for this challenge! They're all beautifully done. but I have to say the first is my favorite.

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  13. Your white pen work is just as gorgeous as your black! I love the way that you interwove all the gorgeous work using amazing skill and beauty!

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  14. The movement is awesome, My favorite is the first one.

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  15. Great fun. I like your top one the best. Very nice.

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