Alice Hendon, Artangleology

Let's see if I remember how to do this. I am told that chemo brain is a real thing. What I know about chemo brain is I find it hard to get motivated and accomplish anything. Specifically art. Back a little over a month ago I was able to put these journal pages together in a day with some new product. Let me show you how I built these pages.  I began with a few simple supplies. Joggles is carrying a new line of products called 49 and Market . I bought a few things hoping they would get me in the mood to make art. I got a nice cover and some signatures to go inside. The beauty of signatures is you can remove the whole piece from the journal so you can work without all the bulk. When you are finished you just pop it back in. For my background I went with these colors of Amsterdam acrylic paints .  Beginning with the azo yellow lemon, I squeezed just a bit onto my page.  With no real plan I used the brayer to roll color onto my two page spread. Azo orange was the second co...

  Should I shade? Should I not shade? Shading your tangle art is something many tanglers would rather not do. They don't know what to shade or how to do it and it is just easier to skip that step.  Since being so sick earlier this year I have really had a hard time getting interested in doing any kind of art. I used to make art all day long - now I rarely feel like it. But one day earlier this week I felt like tangling. For awhile. To draw this piece I traced two 3.5" square tiles onto my paper in pencil. Overlapping at those top middle corners. And I just used tangles I like. From left to right: SOCC, Beauchamp, Z'ghetti, Caracole and Printemps with a bit of Tipple thrown in. When it came time to shade I just wasn't feeling it and pushed the whole piece to one side, feeling a bit defeated. The next day came after some much needed rest and I suddenly felt like shading!  Much better and I added a few highlights here and there. Shading is easy if you think about 'ove...