The inspiration for this tile came from Pere Cobo CZT . He is an amazing tangler and human being. He uses Zentangle to help homeless children at the Dar Chabab day center in Catalunya, Spain.
He has a very special style, part outer space, part interdimensional universes and part video game graphics. He has created many tangles that he uses when tangling and many interesting tangelations of common tangles.
He recently posted a tile he created that was really interesting and encouraged others on the Mosaic app to give it a try.
The basic premis was to use Quib and Pyramids to create a tile in his style. The requirements were to make the tangles large at the upper part of the tile and smaller at the lower part.
I found the idea simple, yet intriguing. The tile above are my results! Pere said that we were not to use fragments or other tangles, but, I got a bit carried away.
I filled the arms of the Quib with other tangles. I chose to place porthole-like orbs in one arm, as if this was how you could travel from one portal to another. Doo Dah looks a bit like a maze, and I was thinking that perhaps a being’s travel had to have many turns in different directions. Shattuck was inspired by space folding over itself again and again and Tipple is for beings traveling through water.
Instead of just floating my pyramids, I treated the bases like Tripoli joined them into blossoms. Selective shading turned them into Star Ships. The largest are near the top and right of the tile, with the smallest being near the bottom and left.
I filled in the background with black and then used white and a bit of gold ink to create an astral pattern. The larger suns were create with white ink and white chalk pencil.
A bit of color was added with chalk pastels. Shading and highlights completed the composition.
I have really been wanting to try my hand at this style of tangling. It appeals to me. Some years ago, I did a brief series about an Astral Trader, and created a few tiles with her ships (created from blossom tangles) and stories about her travels. Pere’s style would fit in nicely with this theme!
Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen. Coloring done with chalk pastel. Shading done with graphite pencil. highlights created with white chalk pencil.
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