Saturday, August 3, 2013

Tangle Card Challenge #4 - Kaleido

Sandra Steen Bartholomew has a new tangle this week for her Tangle Card Contest and I think she might have had me in mind when she decided to give us a simpler tangle to work with this week.

This is the Tangle Card with Kaleido stepped out.

  

She suggests that the pattern made after drawing the "grid" can be used as a string and the spaces can be filled with tangles.  Well that intrigued me and off I went.  

I started with a circle to pay homage to a kaleidoscope, although I am not really sure what Sandra named it after but, it reminded me of one. My straight lines I used vertically (just because I could) and my curvy any-which-way lines kind of crossed the straight ones.  I should have taken a before picture, sorry. I filled in the Printemps with sepia .005 Micron and was going to leave the alternate spaces white but, then looking at it, a black pattern was asking to be drawn. The end result reminds me of fine Japanese paper.




I could not find the black pattern named anywhere but I have the same pattern on my soy sauce dishes used for sushi:


If anyone out there has a name for it please let me know!




3 comments:

  1. Nice work (though I think there should be horizontal straight lines in the kaleido pattern). The pattern you are asking about looks a bit like one called 'feathers', or one called 'fscales'. 'scallops' is on the same principle. I think it's a fish scale pattern but I could not find a zen deconstruction.

    And the pattern you've used as kaleido might be one called 'cracked'.

    But what does it matter? Your drawing is beautiful!

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  2. Agree with Faith very similar to the ones she mentioned. The pattern on the plate looks like Sandy Bartholow's Zazzle in Totally Tangled. There's also a pattern from Zentangle - Tagh - similar concept. Don't think it has been published yet.

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  3. . . . and yes it's a beautiful piece very calming and reflective.

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