Stoic is one of the original tangles from Rick and Maria, inspired by the pattern on a rug seen in Stowe, Vermont.
It's also known by some as Twile which can be found on tanglepatterns.com. Linda Farmer introduces it as, "...instructions for drawing CZT® Lesley Scott-Gilliland’s Zentangle® pattern Twile. Lesley unknowingly deconstructed the Zentangle®-original tangle Stoic."
It has not been shared by Zentangle (to my knowledge) except with CZTs at seminars. I'm a CZT3 so it will always be Stoic to me.
The tile at the top shows Stoic in its basic form. Below are four variations on one tile.
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| Stoic with Cubine in the middle. Stoic with a variety of patterns in the 'ribbons'. Stoic with a simple line through the 'ribbons'. Stoic with a simple addition in only one direction. |
It's always interesting to try a square grid tangle curved into a circular form.
Here are two way to treat the "corners", each of which gives the impression of the tangle being curved. The square grid in A below is drawn as if the square were there; in B the square fragment is converted to a triangle.
In the tile below I had done a variation that I thought was too busy for this tile. I blacked it over entirely, then drew in white ink, and used white chalk for highlights.
Stoic (like Cubine) can take on different looks by varying the size of the "hole" in the middle. Have a look at the diagonal band in the tan tile below. (There is a gold wash in the upper right which looks a little faded here but is quite lovely in person!)
I had a tile with a blue wash and decided to try to work Stoic through the brush marks. I penciled the pattern and whited-in the central squares. The dark-filled column is one point of interest, while the orange/yellow area becomes the focal point.
What other variations can you think of for this simple square grid tangle?
Margaret, I recognize this as the bathroom tile in the house of my best friend when I was a little girl. Bonnie Ann lived across the street. Her bathroom was pink, beautiful. (Ours was blue, boring.) The tile was arranged in the same pattern: black square in the center, pink rectangles surrounding it. It all came back to me (I haven't been in that house for over sixty years) when I saw your first picture.
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