The Pink Orb

I finished my tile for Tackle It Tuesday. This was more a matter of deciding what I was going to use, We needed to use tangles that started with S, E, and P. After much playing and deliberating, I had the duh moment. For P I could use my pattern, Planturn, you can find the step outs on my blog. I then used Sp-Eye-Ryl, Eez and Euca.


My Tackled, Tackle It Tuesday tile:

Tackled

 

I will be including a pink orb in all my future work. The reason I use this orb is two-fold:
1) In Zentangle(R) there is no top or bottom and I think if someone is holding the work they should be able to rotate it and decide which way they want to display it. For this reason I don't sign the front of my tiles or ATC's. So to indicate it is something created by me I include a pink orb with the design. Some of my earlier works included an orb that was colored (or not). On my scratchboard work I also try to include an orb with special scratchmarks coming off of it; almost like a comet.
2) I eventually settled on using a pink orb as my "signature" to recognize those afflicted with breast cancer. I am a breast cancer survivor (knock on wood) of 5 years. Since the pink ribbon was taken, and highly recognized, not to mention it would look awkward on my artwork, I opted for a pink orb.
I still include my signature and year created on the back of the work. When I do my hands and larger works that have a definite direction, I sign the lower right on the front and sometimes include the pink orb.