If you are looking for the Life Imitates Doodles Weekly Wednesday Giveaway #16 , you can find it here.
I started posting links to tangles, tutorials and giveaways back in January of 2010. I was doing it daily at that time. I’ve been down to one day a week for a while, and it’s still taking me hours every week. WordPress is flaky, making it more difficult to put the list together. Many of my reliable sources are no longer posting. Meanwhile, fewer and fewer people are stopping to look at the list.
You probably know where this is going. Although, I’ve very much enjoyed searching out all these wonderful links, there are other things I’d like to do with the time.
Today’s link list is my last.
I hope you will still come to visit and enjoy my art, reviews and tutorials. With the time I’ll be saving I plan to start up my Fun & Easy Landscape and Animal step-outs again and those will be posted on Saturday mornings. On Tuesdays, I’m posting a ‘Pencil to Paint’ mini-tutorial and Wednesdays, of course, I have the Weekly Wednesday Giveaways.
Artwork-A Study in Scarlet-Arteza Watercolor Brush Pen on Hahnemühle Cézanne cold-press.
Zentangle
Challenges
- The Daily New Tangle Challenge
- Pattern-Collections Daily Pattern Focus
- I am the Diva Weekly Challenge (not sure when hiatus ends)
- Tangle All Around-Taking it to the Next Level-Journal It
Pattern Videos & Instructions
- Opally
- Seth
- Daily Tangle – Well Well Who
- Daily Tangle – DivaDance-Rock&Roll
- Daily Tangle – Acacia
- Daily Tangle – AiSi
- Daily Tangle – AmigoOne
- Daily Tangle -A-Nott
- Daily Tangle – Apple Core
- Rasuc as a border – how to turn that corner
- Shallots
- Sienna Warp
New Patterns
- Skarab
- Pod Flower – PATTERN STEP OUT
- Lozela
- Crazy Cups
- Hex Box
- Butterfly Fluff
- Kuba
- Karammbus
- Vidalia
- Panz Flower 3
- Vertiz
- How to Draw Sampa
Strings
Other
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Tutorials
- Draw Tip Tuesday – Urban Sketching
- How I Improve Photo Reference for Watercolor Painting
- Writing Wednesday: How to Journal Your Past – Present – Future
- Translate Value to Color in Watercolor Painting
- How to paint a cat in six easy steps
- Beautiful Beginner Acrylic Painting Lesson: Coneflower Echinacea
- How to Use Multiple Reference Images for Portrait Painting
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Giveaways
- Life Imitates Doodles Weekly Wednesday giveaway #16
- nicolegracestudies- 12 piece set of brush pens
- studbly-choice of stationery items
- amerelittlelettering-pens, paper, pen pouch & more
- study.susan ˗ Stationery Giveaway
- Giveaway! New White Cover Flying Spirit Notebooks
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Doodlewash
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Reviews
- LIHIT LAB SMART FIT PUNILABO ZIPPER POUCH
- Hahnemühle Velour Paper – Antonio Valiente
- Clairefontaine Zellige notebook
- New Jacques Herbin 1798 Anniversary Ink: Kyanite du Népal
- ZEBRA ZENSATIONS FOUNTAIN PENS
- Ink Review #730: J Herbin Kyanite du Nepal
- New Sketchbooks & Pads – Strathmore, Stonehenge, Hahnemühle, Perfect Sketchbook
Always enjoyed your step outs and fun and easy landscapes. Hope you will do the things you most enjoy!!!!
Thank you, Mary! Hopefully this will result in less time online and more time doing art, without missing time with my online friends!
Thanks for all you have done with these links over the years Sandra. I learned about so many artists, supplies and techniques through you. I will miss these posts. I understand, however, WordPress has been a bit flaky as you put it. I look forward to your future tutorials. Nancy
Thank you, Nancy! I hope you enjoy what I come up with.
I only recently found your site so am sad that there will no longer be these lists but very much appreciate all the work you must have put into compiling them. I hope that all your new “spare” time will be filled with lots of enjoyment and fun.
Thank you, Wendy! I hope you enjoy what I come up with. I’m hoping dropping the lists will give me time for lots of reviews and tutorials as well as more artwork!
Sad to see it come to an end but am glad you are going to do what you enjoy. I can only imagine the time it has taken. Best of luck and I will continue watching your blog postings.
Thank you, Pat! I’ll miss the excuse to surf so much, but I’ll be glad for the time to art!
Thanks for doing this for a while. To be honest I’ve only looked at your tutorials for the past months, since I do get messages from other sources regarding new patterns. Love your art work.
Thank you, Susan! It does seem that the age of link lists has come and gone. People have changed the way they use the internet, so it seemed time that I did the same!
Thanks for doing this and to be honest I will miss the posting of the tutorials because that is what I was looking at the past months since I do get messages from other sources regarding new pattern. Enjoy your more free time.
I appreciate the time and effort you have put in to providing us with these lists, allowing us an easy path to experience new artists and new techniques. I have learned much from the resources you have shared, as well as from you (!) and look forward to seeing what the future will bring. Enjoy your new found freedom!
Thank you, Mariam! I know I will miss learning about new products and techniques because I’m not on the prowl for them. But this will give me more time to focus on what I’ve already learned, lol!
Thank you sandra for the many hours spent over the years sharing the links.
I’ll be looking forward to your stepouts.
I really enjoyed doing them.
Thanks again!
Thank you, Lynne! I’m looking forward to doing more of them. It’s been a while!
I shall miss your lists and links, but there are new things to which I’ll look forward. Thanks so much!
Thank you, Susan! I know I’ll miss looking at all the new posts, but it’s a relief knowing I won’t have to.
I do enjoy all your posts and look at each piece of art you’ve drawn. I’ve been getting links from you for so long now that I shall miss it, but maybe this means I’ll do more with the 100s of patterns I’ve printed out over the years!! Thank you for each and every one!!
Thank you, Laura! I hate quitting because I know it helped people find posts they wouldn’t otherwise, but I hope they’ll enjoy the step-outs I’ll be creating!
Thanks, Sandra, for all your time and efforts in doing this. Yours is one of the few blogs I seem to (almost always) read! I’m grateful and look forward to the next chapter in your blogging life!
Thank you so much, Roseanne! I hope you’ll still find much to enjoy on my blog!
So sad , but i can partially understand your point of view. Thank you for all your efforts . I think I will have to depend on pintrest and some pattern lists to find new patterns now. But i am looking forward to what you are up to. Good luck on your new path of creativity.
Thank you so much! I know I’m going to have a great time! Be sure to check out Tanglepatterns.com and Pattern-Collections.com if you don’t already. That’s were I got most of my new patterns from.
Wow, Sandra! You’re the most prolific artist and blogger I know. I look forward to seeing how you re-focus to fulfill your expanding artistic needs. I absolutely understand, as I know, you’re absolutely aware. 😉 Miss you lots, my friend.
I miss you too, Kathy! I’ve felt like I always have to rush all my art for quite a while now. It will be nice to feel as though I can take my time.
It was always very generous of you to take the time to do this. And now that is time you get to have to explore new creative adventures. I hope you have tons of fun with whatever comes next. 🙂
Thank you, Sandra! I know I will have tons of fun!
I’m sorry that this is coming to an end, but I can understand how much time you put in on this. I found a lot sites and artists that I will continue to follow. Many thanks for your hard work over these last nine years.
Thank you, Susie! I will miss discovering so many new artists and information and sharing them with my friends.
Sandra, I would like to thank you for the years of giving links that I have found instructive and enlightening. I most certainly understand and applaud your decision to move on. I know that I myself have reached a saturation point in reading/watching new techniques and need to spend more time actually doing these things. But, please know that your efforts have been so appreciated over the years and I am most grateful for all that you did to further my own journey. Now, enjoy spending that time folowing your own joyful exploration and development. Hugs, Jean
Thank you so much, Jean! It was a hard decision and I know I’ll miss discovering new artists and techniques but I also know I’ll have fun doing more artwork.
Best wishes to you as you move forward and engage in newer endeavors, Sandra. Can’t wait to see your resulting creations.
Thank you, Sharon!
It takes so much time to maintain a list like this. Not sure how you kept up with this for such a long time. Thank you for all the hard work you put into this. Hugs!
Thank you, Ina! I don’t know how you manage to keep the Pattern-collections website and Facebook group going. Such a massive commitment!