Pokeleaf – Square One focus

This week’s Square one focus is Pokeleaf. I haven’t used this tangle much recently, so I enjoyed playing with it a little in my sketchbook.

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First I played around with different ways to embellish the leaves.

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Then I thought “What if I drew Pokeleaf in a Mooka way?”. I liked the idea but the leaf shapes kind of got lost. I decided to add an inner aura to the leaves and make them “see-through” so I could see the leaf shape behind. I really liked this look and decided to use this on my Square One tile.

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I started with the Mooka’d Pokeleaf with the inner aura on each leaf so the leaves behind could be seen.

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I then added a little shading to the “stems” and where the leaves overlap.

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It seemed like the leaves needed some definition so I added shading that was darker at the tips and gradually gets lighter toward the stems. This is a bit of play with Positive and Negative shapes as I often like to do.

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Finally I added a little shading around the outside of the leaves just because it seemed like it needed it to pull it all together.

I like that it turned out simple yet complex looking at the same time.

UPDATE: Mooka’d see-through Pokeleaf #2

I did another tile using the Mooka’d see-through Pokeleaf as a string. Following are the work-in-progress photos.

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Without shading the filled in string looks kind of flat and busy to me.

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Adding shading creates emphasis and dimension. The shading is simply added around the edges and where forms overlap.

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As with all the work I post, if you see something you like please feel free to experiment with it in your own work.

Blessings,

Lynn

8 thoughts on “Pokeleaf – Square One focus

  1. I love seeing your explorations for the various tangles. Thank you for sharing.

  2. LOVE this, Lynn! As always, when I see people create outside the box, I think, “Why didn’t I think of that?!” But, alas, I never do, so I’m always grateful for those of you who do it for me!

  3. I love how you embellished the inside of the Poke Leaf! Something I never thought about doing. Your final tile is really cool!

  4. Love the way you played with pokeleaf. The mooka pokeleaf fascinates me (of course, because I like mooka!). I am almost playing with it in my mind turning it into a celtic knot poke leaf mooka! So in other words, you made my mind play and I like that.

  5. Love the poke(bet)weed. Thanks, Lynn.

    1. Ha, ha Pokeweed, Love that

  6. Simple and complex…something I appreciate, so I was delighted to follow your path.

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