Thursday, December 15, 2011

Snowflakes, or not

The Zentangle Inspired Art group on Yahoo occasionally issues challenges. A recent one to do snowflakes struck my fancy. The idea is to "draw a circle with arms/spokes coming out. Sort of an asterik with a circle in the center. Use the spokes as your string. Draw your tangles coming off of the string." My first two efforts were very disappointing. In fact, I tore one in half and didn't finish the other! Here are the three that I actually completed.

It has six points, but... umm... not a snowflake.

Tangles: Beadlines, Finery, Krli-qs, Meer

Six points again, but this one was more star-like right from the beginning. I decided it could be a Star of David and I'll wish all my Jewish friends a very happy Chanukah (December 20-28) next week. I like it. But... not a snowflake.

Tangles: Beadlines, Caviar, Hibred, Ixorus, Knase,
Knightsbridge aura, Perds, Seljuk, Tripoli

Third try (if I don't count the first two) lucky! Although the snowflake doesn't show up very well. Apparently this concept needs more tangling effort. Yay!

Tangle: Sampson

5 comments:

  1. All tiles are lovely, personal favorite the 6 point one.Where can I find instructions for Sampson tangle?

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  2. These are beautiful, I never even considered how many points the snowflake has. Back to the drawing board for me.

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  3. I've done some digging and can't find drawing instructions for Sampson anywhere on the internet. I had thought it might be in a Zentangle newsletter. It was presented at the third CZT training in May 2010.

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