Saturday, July 5, 2014

The cover of my mini-book for Zentangle® tiles

If you saw my post yesterday, you know I'm working on mini-books to hold either ATC cards, or Zentangle tiles. I incorporated this week's Diva Challenge #174, superimposing strings, to adorn the cover of my newest Zentangle tile mini-book. The finished book is 4" x 4" and is made from Strathmore Art Paper. Mine came in a pad of 12" x 18" assorted colors. I cut a sheet of blue down to 11" x 16". It was a little difficult to fold, and the paper is heavy enough that it doesn't want to stay closed, but I'm working on a closure for it. The blue looks awesome, doesn't it? I think storing completed tiles with blue accents including the renaissance tiles, will be an ideal choice. For more on how to make these mini-books, check out this post.
My superimposed string resembles a framed basketball with the mark of Zorro!
In addition to the string in pencil, I used Sakura Microns in both blue and black. Shading and highlighting was done with Faber-Castell Polychromos Prussian Blue and General's Charcoal White.

11 comments:

  1. Beautiful front cover! Can't wait to try one of these myself!

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  2. This is wonderful Cover art. Love the Jetties. Terrific shading, and color.

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  3. wow, the highlights are amazing.it looks like a fantastic place to go and play,

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  4. wow, great highlights.it looks like a fantastic place to me.

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  5. Wonderful cover for this lovely mini-book! I like the blue colour! Nicely done!

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  6. I love blue! I think you did a great job with your shading and highlights! What a fun little book to hold your tiles... Everything is just gorgeous! Nice!

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  7. The Mooka and the Jetties work very well together. Lovely work and I really like the blue.

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  8. The blue looks really great. Your Jetties look almost like marbles rolling along.

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