Diva Challenge #338

This week’s Diva Challenge was to do “white on black”. It’s been some time since I have worked on black much. It took me back to my first pattern, Apcorg. I drew it on black a lot! So I decided to do Apcorg this week. I finished quickly and felt I hadn’t done much so I tried it out on a Zendala black tile. I’d never used a genuine black Zentangle ® tile before nor a zendala tile so I tried it out.

I have to say I’m not a fan of how my white pens performed. The genuine black zendala is very good paper (Fabriano) and appropriate for wet media. Unfortunately, this means it likes to soak up ink. I used both my Gelly Roll and my Uniball Signo. They rolled on okay but by the time I would finish the next stroke, the last would be soaked in and no longer looked crisp and white, making me try to redraw lines. It gave the piece a rather blurry appearance. I don’t know if they offer the apprentice black tiles in Zendalas but it’s a much better draw on those tiles with black. This is my opinion, So see for yourself. I think square is a nicer look than in the round.

And lastly, because I’m a girl and love sparkling things, I added some clear glitter pen for pizzazz to my first tile.

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