Hi and welcome back to the Chrissie Murphy Designs Blog where I’m always exploring. As we make our way through the Magnified Fragments Project Part 1, I have been trying to share about each fragment in a blog post. Today we are looking back at Magnified Fragment B3 using Botanicals as an enhancer. Let’s get into it and I’ll fill you in on all you need to know.
What is the Magnified Fragments Project and where can I find out more about it?
Well in short, it’s the biggest zentangle project I have ever undertaken! There is greater detail about the project and what’s involved in the very first blog post for the project – Magnified Fragment A1 using Echo Lines as an Enhancer
If you’d still like to learn more, check out our Magnified Fragments Gallery! It’s full of all the fragments that other tanglers have created in the project so far. It’s absolutely amazing!!
What is Fragment B3 using Botanicals as an Enhancer?
Here is a close up of Fragment B3 that is featured in the Zentangle Collection of Reticula and Fragments book by Zentangle founders, Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas.
I have created a tile using this fragment as my string. In doing so, I effectively magnified it.
We used botanical elements and tangles to enhance this fragment.
What does it mean in terms of my artistic work as a whole?
This fragment tied in really well with an exploration I’d done on Betweed previously. I loved the bulking of Betweed and I wanted to play again with it so badly. So when this fragment came along, it fitted perfectly!
I love botanical elements, and I felt like this fragment was aligning with everything I liked. I could bulk up Betweed and use Botanicals. Bonus!
The end result really expresses the joy I felt at working in two areas I love. It’s cohesive, layered well and coloured reminiscently.
How can you try this idea?
When was the last time you really took notice of a tile you’d completed after working with elements you love?
Is there a more cohesive look to it? Does it look like it’s layered and built well? Are the colours or shading seemingly perfect for the tile at hand?
I think it’s amazing that when we love what we do, it’s expressed IN what we do. Have you ever noticed that?
Over this next month or so, I’d encourage you to have a look at your tiles. Pay attention to the ones you really love. Can you see cohesiveness and structure? What about it’s shading and colour? What do you see when you really look at it.
These elements will testify to how you felt about what you were creating. I would love for you to leave me a comment telling me about the tile you created that you loved. What did you see when you really looked at it? Fill me in below.
The materials used for Magnified Fragment B3 using Botanicals as an Enhancer
- Traditional Zentangle Tile
- Uniball Signo Gel pens in Black, White and Sepia
- Grey Copic Markers in W5 and W7
- Derwent Inktense pencils
- Prismacolor Premier Coloured Pencils
- Distress Ink
How big is the tile?
It is 3.5 inches x 3.5 inches square.
Before you go….
Thank you for spending a little time with me today.
If you’d like to keep exploring together, I’d love to welcome you to Always Exploring.
It’s my occasional letter from the studio, where I share new artwork, creative adventures, behind-the-scenes moments, and the little discoveries that make me smile. Every now and then, you’ll even get a peek at what I’m working on before it’s shared anywhere else.
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The Milo certainly is.
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Until my next blog post, “I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received” Ephesians 4:1.
In peace always
