"Flowers from Jupiter" Red Circle Tangle

"Flowers from Jupiter" (Red Circle Tangle) by Megan O'Madadhain

My Red Circle Tangle (nicknamed "Flowers from Jupiter") is part of my "Rainbow Circle Tangle" series. For this series I started by tracing a circle and then used circles to define the regions.

The good:

I like the type of flowers at the top and how they look surrounded by a pink outline.

I like the floral pattern on the left.

I had fun doing Jupiter-like patterns on the right.

The large flower in the middle is similar to ones I have been drawing on white boards all across the country for decades, so it has nostalgic value.

The bad:

Really poor planning on this one. Obviously, if I'd known I was going to do flowers at the top I would have left more room. I don't like the center of the drawing -- I kept changing my mind about what to do, and then filling in with black to cover changes. Also, I should have decided how the center pieces were going to fit together earlier. Color-wise, I needed colors that were further apart. I was trying to make the tangle mostly red rather than pink, but I picked 2 reds that were too close together.

Art in context:

The "Rainbow Circle Tangle" series is one of my earliest attempts to do colored tangles.

The nitty gritty:

The floral pattern on the left is inspired by shapes used in a background pattern used extensively in the Creative Coloring: Patterns of Nature coloring book I have. The large flower in the middle is similar to flowers I have been drawing on white boards for decades. The Jupiter-like pattern looks like the "Cellu" zentangle pattern, but is pretty basic. The flowers at the top is my variant of the "Dandelion Seeds" tangle pattern.
I used Tombow Dual Brush Markers and a Micron black pen, typically size "05" (0.5mm). Original is 4" x 4" ink on paper.