Zentangle's Project Pack 10

Another project pack! Zentangle's Project Pack #10 takes us through some of the history of Zentangle, exploring various of the developments over the years. 

It comes with a lovely little, tan, fabric-covered booklet to work in. The booklet is a series of two-page spreads with ten sections to fill on each page. This gives 20 possible tangles to choose from when you roll your icosahedron die (provided in the pack).

Two things you should know:

• I haven't finished the booklet yet.
• I didn't always do what I was told. 😉

We began with the tangles featured in the original tangle legend, called L5, that comes in the Zentangle kit.

One of the two-page spreads features fragments: square, triangular, and round. Here's my booklet.

 

Another of the spreads is border tangles. My first page is linear tangles; the second is based on fragments.

Crazy tangles! Wild variations on classic tangles.

Tangles, beginning at #1: Crescent Moon, Cadent, Cadent again, Printemps, 
twisted Striping, "Nzeppel, Hollibaugh using Rain/Auras/Caviar-style Tipple,
Florz, Huggins, and Knightsbridge 

One page is what the video called 'texture' tangles, tangles that create an all-over textural look rather than something eye-catching. I left mine without shading as they seem less attention-grabbing that way.

Tangles, beginning at #11: Munchin, Scena, Sand Swirl, Amaze, Afterglo,
Scoodle, Warped Eggs, Tortuca, Ravel, Tidings.
The other five are: Irradial, Keeko, Cheesecloth, Meer, and an Archimedian spiral.  

There are enough Celtic-looking tangles to fill one page. This is opposite my page of crazy tangles, so that shake of the die should be interesting!

I wanted to do a spread of some of my own tangles, too. Sometimes I forget about them. 😬

Tangles, beginning at #1: Boss, Beadlines, Cadox, Dutch Hourglass, Morse, Magma, Moving Day,
Pixioze, Windfarm, Cadent squared, Purdy (with Bijou), Shing, Trifle, St. John's Cross,
Ninja Stars, Künstler, Lotus Pods, Gingham, Pamela, Croon, and Diamond Panes.

I'm looking forward to finishing the remaining pages.

In my Book: a Celtic page and W2

I have a lot of Scots heritage and have always loved Celtic interlacing, so there's now a Celtic page in my Book. I also love my tangle Skye which I did around the edge. :)

Tangles: Crossview, Cruze, Elven, Emingle, Skye, Tipple, Tortuca

I enjoyed teaching a class based on W2 at OgunquiTangle a couple of years ago. You can read about it in my earlier post W2 and then some. I did a page based on W2 but less intricate than the class's Opus tile.

When I don't know when to quit

I had drawn a lovely Celtic-style interlaced tree on a white Zendala tile. At the very center I put a decorative metal brad on a circle of holographic paper.

My intention was to mount it on canvas and paint the surround, as I often do with zentangle-inspired art tiles. Then I remembered that I had some round canvases and that seemed like a good idea.

Zendala tile mounted on round canvas, then painted and drawn on.
There are red, green, and blue 'gem' brads placed in the series of upper loops.

Somehow it seemed as if there could be more. What about mounting this round canvas on a larger square? I decided to use board rather than canvas as it would be firmer and more stable. I bought a 12" square 'cradled panel' (it's deep like a stretched canvas but all wood.)

I needed to paint the board Celtic-style, too. I placed the round canvas in the center and traced around it. No need to paint what wasn't going to show, right?

Tangles in the 'ribbons' - Finery and Paisley Boa
These four large 'gems' are painted.

The round canvas is about 1/2" deep, so it's raised off the square panel. I added a thin strip of holographic ribbon around the bottom of the round canvas. This visually lifts it off the square board and adds some colored sparkle.

You can see the thin holographic strip
at the left edge of the black band in the middle.

Now I'm done. I think.

SKYE - a new tangle!

Wow. I am really thrilled with this one! Yes, there are step-outs!

(Oh, alright! Skip to the step-outs! But come back up to see/read all the rest, okay?)

I noticed this interlacing on the box of the game Isle of Skye. It's a classic Celtic interlacing pattern, which, if you follow a strand, you'll notice is composed of two strands, not one. (I enjoyed the game, by the way.)

This is the pattern stripe from the game's box.

Deconstructing this pattern encountered a lot of false starts.

Once I had figured out how to draw it, I drew it a few times on a tile. I wanted to be sure I knew what I was doing before I pretended to explain it to others.

Tangles: Black Pearlz, Pearlz, Skye, Tipple

Blue Skye! Honestly, I wasn't thinking that when I did this. I just had a tile with a blue wash sitting waiting.

Tangles: Bunzo, Crescent Moon, Pearlz, Phuds, Skye

The step-outs!

(Updated step-outs posted 2016 September 2)
Don't forget to shade it, although it looks quite alright without. Have fun!

Tangles: Cruze, Elven, single Pearlz, Skye, Zonked

Tangles: Skye, Tipple, and wavy lines

UPDATE: 2016 May 19

Well, my goodness! People are having lots of fun with this tangle, to the extent that some are posting alternate step-outs and video demos. Here are three videos offering basics and further explorations such as ending a row of Skye, and doing Skye in a circle.

The first is from Bunte Gallerie on YouTube:


The next is one is from Kathrin Bendel, also on YouTube. Kathrin is a CZT in Germany and made this (her first!) video as an additional instruction to some who were having challenges drawing Skye.


And one from Ellen Wolters, who has done video demos of a great many tangle patterns.

Montreal vacation

I've been enjoying Montreal for the past two weeks. We're here with a couple of friends who did a house exchange so we have wonderful company and wonderful accommodations. The weather has been beautiful! I'm eating my fill of Montreal bagels (the best), visiting lots of interesting places, and and doing a lot of walking - 9 kms one day! My husband and I lived here for five years B.C. (before children) and our youngest daughter is currently studying here.

I'd prepared a few posts before we left home - most of those have been posted - but today I'm on a computer where I can upload photos and I want to share some pictures from Montreal.

We took a walk through part of the huge cemetery on Mount Royal, looking for two particular grave sites (which we found!), and in our wanderings I saw this wonderful Celtic cross gravestone. I love Celtic interlacing and patterns.

We went to see an exhibition of work by Dale Chihuly at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Eye-poppingly gorgeous!!! He works in blown and molded glass and the works are huge (although composed of small parts). We were enchanted.

Not sure if the title is Sun or The Sun, but it's spectacular!

 Here is my husband in front of it, to give an idea of the scale:

This is but a small portion of a piece that filled an entire room at the gallery
and looks like an underwater landscape. I loved these green and black tendrils.

Part of a large ceiling!
There were pads so you could lie on the floor and look up at it.
I thought it would make a marvelous floor too, to walk over.

One of a series of what he calls 'chandeliers'.
There are also 'towers' that sit on the floor.

I went to a children's class that our daughter facilitates and taught the kids how to draw looped string lotus flowers, which they then colored and put a jewel in the centre. Some of them looked more like stars, which is fine. Mine do that too sometimes!

Tomorrow we're off to Toronto for two days, and will visit the ROM's special exhibit on Mesopotamia.

Celtic knot tangle sampler

Judy West posts a Celtic challenge every two weeks. I usually don't manage to participate, but #31 appealed because I'd have a sampler showing a good selection of tangles that are linear, for thin places and border ideas. FORTY tangles in fact! It will be a handy reference.

I copied the knot in pencil onto a 9" square of paper. I wanted it to have an even more Celtic look when I was finished so I chose some "Celtic" colors: red, blue, green, and brown and added a few small circles for 'jewels'. I caught myself in time and was able to organize the tangles:

'Official' Zentangle tangles are GREEN.
Tangles that I designed myself are RED.
Tangles that other people have designed are BLUE.

Tangles used:

'Official' Zentangle tangles : Avreal, Betweed, Chainging, Finery, Knase, Meer, Quib, Rain, Snail, Vega, Xyp, Zander (and Hibred, which is in blue).

Tangles that I designed : Chebucto, Copada, Ionic, Lamar, Many Moons, Prestwood, Seljuk, Zedbra as well as Ninja Stars and Screen, both of which are not linear tangles, but most square grid tangles can be used as a single row to make a linear pattern. Plus, of course, Black Pearlz; I can hardly do a piece without those!

Tangles that other people designed : Adente, Blake, Coaster, C-scape, Diamond Drops, Elven, Firecracker, Flez, Fohbraid, Japonica, Kandysnake, Paisley Boa, Puffle, Ragz, Snugz, Unyun, Wud, and Zewm and Hibred together in one section.