Shattuck has thin lines between bands of the tangle and for some reason I decided that two-pencil strings would be ideal for this challenge. I haven't used a two-pencil string in quite some time, so this was interesting.
I prefer Shattuck with rounded shapes and with the two sides matched to create a fan shape, so all my tiles are like that. This first tile is fairly basic Shattuck.
I like doing a series of tiles with the same tangle. It makes me think about the tangle, get a little bored, and come up with variations. This tile includes some very large Shattuck elements in two corners, as well as a variation that just happened: I quite like it, with two sides of the fan shape filled in and the adjacent fan shapes left empty.
I signed the next tile in one direction, then decided I prefered it otherwise. Shattuck is also very interesting 'sideways'.
All beautiful and the last one is STUNNING!
ReplyDeleteI love them all!
ReplyDeleteAll so very creative, I love it when there are spaces left open.
ReplyDeleteThe last one is my favorite.
Your work is always very inspiring!
I love the second and third ones Margaret. And I'm afraid I'm not smoking cant see the Shattuck in the 4th quite pretty though 😊
ReplyDeleteJoanne, to me it's the repetition of the stripes interspersed (more or less!) with the fan shapes, even though the stripes wave all over the place and the fan shapes are irregular.
DeleteFantastic! Take it to the limit, and then keep going!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful tiles, but I love the last, What were you smoking one!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful tiles! You work is always so inspiring to me.
ReplyDeleteoh my! I love them all, but the way you do Renaissance tiles is truly stunning. I love how you manage to get so much variation of color in one small section of a string. Your work is inspiring. Thank you for sharing it:-)
ReplyDeleteThank you Michele! I'm almost always so pleased with my Renaissance tiles because brown is absolutely NOT my favorite color!
DeleteGorgeous! I love that last tile. It reminds of the some of the Art Deco lobby murals I've seen in NYC.
ReplyDeletethese are glorious! I especially love the rosey beige golden colors, and the way the Shattuck weaves over and under in that first colored one. Wow!
ReplyDeleteThanks HeidiSue! It's all in the choice of colored pencils for shading/highlighting.
DeleteThe patterning is great and the beautifully graded colour is out of this world.
ReplyDeleteI prefer to do the opposite with Shattuck and will mostly have adjoining sections going in different directions. For variation in this challenge I did do one section where I was very conscious continuing the lines in the next section. Really like all the different tiles, but the last one is WOW!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Donald. It's interesting how different the effect is whether the 'fans' meet up or not. And I know some prefer to do Shattuck with straight lines - another different effect.
DeleteDonald is right. The last one is WOW.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny I've always liked this tangle but I never make it the same way twice.
I love them all! Your work is always so inspiring and you have inspired me to do more with the Renaissance tiles. I agree with everyone else that the "What were you smoking" tile is amazing.
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