“One Zentangle A Day” by Beckah Krahula - Day 15 - Organic Linear Patterns
This is the first exercise in Chapter 3. This chapter is devoted to Geometric and Organic Patterns. Although the term isn’t used in the book, if you are familiar with the concept of “Zentomology”, which is the classification of tangles, the ideas in this chapter will be familiar to you.
In this lesson, the tangles Yincut, Locar and Verdigogh are introduced.
The reader is also introduced to Tangled Journaling. In this process, you can use a book with blank pages, or tangle on individual tiles. Sometimes, particular patterns are chosen to express current emotions or random tangles are chosen. This is often a daily practice.
For the tile above, I used the three tangles introduced and I added Pokeroot as a rounded contrast. While I did shade these tangles with pencil, I also chose to color the botanical tangles so they would stand out against the Yincut background.
I have mixed feelings about the outcome here. Doing Yincut behind the other tangles turned out to be more of a challenge than I had planned on. I also realized part way through that it was probably too busy a choice. Next time I will keep the background simple!
Zentangle drawn on a standard, white Zentangle tile using a black, Micron pen. Coloring done with Cretacolor pastel pencils. Shading done with graphite pencil.
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