Happy Star Wars day! I didn’t even know there was such a thing, and yet I guess I celebrated this weekend when I spent Saturday afternoon with The Wayward Saints (Alexa’s improv troupe) at Starbase Columbus. It was nice to be out in the sunshine, but I’m trying to get over a bad sore throat, so yesterday, I spent the day resting and making art.
The lovely and talented LeeAnn Denzler posted a tutorial on her coloring pencil technique, so I gave it a go. 
This is based on a template that the talented and generous Ben Kwok provides every week in his facebook group Ornation Creation. It took me the better part of the day (about 12 hours), but I really love my fishy. It was so fun that I decided to try the same techinque for this week’s Diva Challenge, which was to use the tangle Brella. I’m not as fond of this one. I think it is because I had no clear idea of what colors I wanted when I started. 
Oh, and if you couldn’t tell, my string is a rather lopsided Death Star. May the force be with you!
Tangled Up In Art 
Absolutely LOVE your fish. It’s great that you were able to finish it all in one shot; I’m still working on my first Ornation Creation, and still not done after at least a month or more.
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Thanks. They do take a lot longer than a tile, but they are so worth it. Ben does a great job.
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Lovely fish and death star. I like the colors in the first one, but I am fond of a yellow/orange color scheme.
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I think your colors for Brella are just great. Love the fish!!!
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The fish is magnificent! I really like the colors in your brella as well as the design. Thanks for sharing the info about the tutorial and the Ornation Creation group. I learn so many new things here from such talented people!
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You’re welcome. Hope you try some colored pencil/Zentangle combos. I’m loving it.
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Very colorful DIVA tile! I like your fish too.
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Your fish is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing it with us.
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Both are amazing and beautiful. I must go take a look at LeeAnn’s tutorial.
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I was thrilled to see your fish because I just today completed Ben Kwok’s beetle car using LeeAnn’s technique. Ben is awesome, LeeAnn is awesome and you are awesome! The wonderful thing is that even using the same template and techinique, we can all achieve very different looks. I love that about zentangle!
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Your fish is gorgeous, wow!
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Both are beautiful but your fish is breathtaking 🙂
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The colors are beautiful! I’m so interested in upping my shading game, so I’m off to check out the tutorial (thank you for sharing). And for the record, your Death Star was totally obvious 🙂
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Gorgeous work on the shading of the fish! And your death star is so clever…it’s been fun seeing all the different interpretations of Brella this week!
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Love both designs this week. Your use of the colored pencil is beautiful in both pictures. Thank you for pointing us in the right direction to take a look at the colored pencil tutorial. I have a couple of good sets of colored pencils, both watercolor and non watercolor pencils. I really like the way that you have finished them both. Wonderful work!
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Thanks. Watercolor pencils are my favorite. You get control like a pencil, but the speed of watercolor.
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LeAnn’s color is always stunning. You did a great job with it. Was not feeling all that creative so did not try any thing related to Star Wars. Like hour Death Star.
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I had the same problem with ‘brella.’ It does not inspire creativity to me. But, I guess that is why it is a challenge. Thanks for your comments. They are always appreciated.
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Your fish is gorgeous!
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