Groovy – Square One Focus

This week’s Square One: Purely Zentangle focus tangle is Groovy by Eden Hunt. Step Outs for this tangle can be found here.

I have a very busy summer ahead so I don’t know if I’ll be able to keep up with the weekly posts for the Square One focus. I’m already behind and I decided I wouldn’t try and catch up. But first off here are the two tiles I did for last week’s focus: Rundl by Ela Rieger.

In the first tile I added Diva Dance to Rundle and did the background using pencil.

Rundl-01

In the second tile I used rounding on the Rundl.

Rundl-02

Now to this weeks focus tangle. Groovy, uses a wavy grid, also known as an Ogee grid. It looks like this. (Note: I mentioned this grid in my last post too.)

ogee

To warm up for this week’s tile I decided to do a “sampler” tile with several tangles that use this grid. It turned into a kind of Family Portrait. Tangles used are top & bottom – Bask-it by Anna Houston, left to right – African Artist by Tina Hunziker, Scrumble by Jane Monk, and Groovy by Eden Hunt.

Groovy Family Portrait

After this fun warm up exercise I moved on to a mono tangle of Groovy. I started with the wavy grid but as you can see it did not want to stay together and instead pulled apart a bit at the edges.

Groovy-01-150ppi

Next came the diagonal lines that alternate back and forth. They didn’t want to cooperate either and one space got left blank.

Groovy-02-150ppi

Then anarchy ruled and some of the ribbons got loose and some of the shapes turned see through.

Groovy-03-150ppi

In the end I let Groovy have it’s way and I like what it did. What do you think?

Groovy-04-150ppi

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