In my Umble Opinion

For some reason the formatting tool on this blog is being stubborn today, and I finally gave up trying to get the text and pictures to coordinate. Even the captions aren't working...So I have for you here a length of text, with pictures following, and at the bottom, the end result of my Diva Challenge Tangling for this week. Long caption on that last pic.

This week The Diva aka Laura Harms, Runner Extraordinaire, challenges us to use the newly published (though long extant) pattern Umble, which was introduced officially at zentangle.com this past week.

Fun pattern! It has lots of scope for play, with depth and interest as the eye is drawn in.

So I started by playing with it, and made a lot of bijou monotangles.

In the first one, the shiny black ribbon in the corner dominated too much. The eye couldn't wander away from it. 

I enjoy how pliable this pattern is. It can be like a pile of ribbons, or it can be tubular. You can fill each one with a pattern itself (I enjoyed going all ononmato on it)...and my favorite is the white one with the stippling for shading. LOVE that effect!

But then I decided to make a piece using umble as PART of it, and made a sketchbook page full.

And when I saw all the white space on the right, I thought of putting some of my umble bijous there, but they were not in proportion so....I sketched some smaller-than-bijou tiles along that right margin, and filled with my favorites.

The first one.

similar to the first, but less shiny black satin

  

I started with Hybrid along the top, and a border of prestwood on the edges. Added some facets and made them drip down in JeJewbees (?) Leaflet and Euca fluttering down in the center, and umble with hollibaugh in a couple of places. Then I put my littler-than-bijous in and umble in those.