Maria, Mucha, and a New Tangle

Much has happened this week, so please forgive the long post. First, I want to thank you for the support last week. I have another MRI tomorrow, but so far, so good. Thank heavens.

On Saturday I was privileged to get together with about 20 CZTs and Maria Thomas at Carole Ohl’s shop in Dayton. The Dayton Art Institute is having a special exhibit on Alphonse Mucha, the inspiration behind the tangle Mooka, and one of Maria’s favorite artists. Maria demonstrated her “kissing mookas,” and we all enjoyed the camaraderie and exhibit, but the most inspiration for me was seeing Maria’s completed Zendalas.

Maria demonstrating “kissing mookas.”

Some of Maria’s gorgeous and inspiring art:

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Someday, if I live long enough, I may be in that league. But, I did have fun. Here are the tiles I did there.

My interpretation of kissing mookas.

This started as a spirograph failure upon which I layered white gellyroll, white glaze, and graphite. I then surrounded it with more mooka/opus/fescue with black glaze pen and Zenstone dust.

Maria also demoed noom repus which inspired this tile.

Before I get to the new tangle, here is this week’s Diva challenge.

Starting with a pre-strung tile. If you look really carefully, you can find the challenge tangle hiding among the verdigogh. Once again, I failed to achieve the full potential of this tangle.

Here is the same after shading.

Finally, here is the new tangle. I call it “oofs-a-daisy” since it was supposed to be OOF, but I made and OOPs. I demoed it in Dayton, and it was well-received, so I hope you like it. If you prefer a video, you can check on my Facebook page.

Here is a monotangle using it.