September 2016 – A Tangler's Mind

This weeks Square One focus tangle is CreZendo, by Pam Hartz Miller CZT. Step-outs can be found in the comments of this weeks Square One FaceBook post (found here).

CreZendo is one of those long and thin tangles that pose an interesting problem, one immediately thinks of using them as a border and it can be hard to think about them in other ways. I like to look for a less obvious solution and in the case of CreZendo it’s S-shape lines and Crescent Moon-ish shapes suggest to me several tangles that would complement it.

For my tile I decided to forgo the obvious Crescent Moon and instead do a little rounding which allowed me to flow right into Diva Dance and build on the auras of the tangle. On the opposite side I mirrored another line of CreZendo but only added the Crescent Moon-ish shapes to one side. This allowed me to flow right into Cadent.

Diva Dance turned into Hollibaugh and I added some black highlights and background. Cadent sprouted some Fescu which again uses the s-shape line.

Here’s how the final shaded tile came out. I think it flows together pretty well.

As always, if you see anything in this post you’d like to try in your own work, please feel free to do so.

Blessings,

Lynn

The Square One focus tangle for the week of September 2-8 is Beeline, a tangle introduced by Zentangle HQ. Here are the step-outs for this tangle as illustrated on the card from Tangle Deck 1.

I knew as soon as I saw that the focus tangle was Beeline that I wanted to do a softer version replacing the black with gray. I have been playing around with Margaret Bremner’s Rope String recently and the thought occurred to me, what if I used it as the basic framework for Beeline? (I seem to ask myself a lot of What If? questions ; ). I remembered to take lots of work in progress pictures as I was drawing this week and I’m glad I did because the finished shaded tile looks so different from the beginnings that it really helps to see the tile develop. To get the softer feel I was going for, I used parallel lines to create the shades of gray. One advantage of this method was that the lines bisecting the diamonds just blended in with the rest of the lines and disappeared. Anyway here are the work in progress photos, they are self-explanatory.

This is the finished tile BEFORE SHADING…

…and this is the finished tile AFTER SHADING.

As usual if you see anything in this post that you would like to try in your own work, please feel free to do so.

Blessings,

Lynn

Month: September 2016

CreZendo – Square One Focus

Beeline – Square One Focus