Griddy or flowy?

(Griddy or flowy? Spell check doesn't like either!)

I'm back to doing a challenge again, finally! And we have an interesting one this week, from Sandy Hunter, CZT. As you know, some tangle patterns are based in a square grid while others are more organic and can grow in any direction. Sandy's challenge is to take one type of tangle and and do it the other way.


I've been playing with Cubine for another blog post so I thought I'd try that grid tangle in a random way.

Perhaps due to the string I used, it still was quite grid-y. I thought I'd better try again. I had a tile with a lot of pencil lines and a lot of tiny spaces. I thought, "If I can't get something random out of that, it's a lost cause." I think it's better this time.

I've been having a lot of fun with Aquafleur recently so that seemed a good organic tangle to try putting into a square grid. I used pencil shading only in the background.

Flux is a tangle that can grow to fit any space - another good candidate for a grid. The larger fluxes seemed too white so I alternated filling them with either a spiral or a droplet.

I found it easier to put a flowy tangle into a square grid rather than the other way. This is a terrific way to come up with some quite different looking patterns without busting your brain. Thanks Sandy!