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.
Inktober Tangles - Day 26 - Owlpeek by Susan Yeo CZT Owlpeek is an interesting tangle that, depending on how you look at it, looks a bit like a stylized owl. Susan has a couple of examples on her Instagram account of using this tangle as a string! So, I chose to do that here. So although the tangle itself is not use as a design element… it is the entire string. One iteration is drawn to fill the tile, and then the spaces are filled in with other tangles. Keep in mind that this tangle can be flipped upside down, and it will still look the same.
PP08 - Day 6 - Doo Dah, Knightsbridge, MI2, Shattuck The video for this tile is located here . To begin this project, I had to recreate this particular string on a white Zendala tile. I didn’t have one in my stash that I could use. Fortunately, it turned out to be fairly easy to do. I found it interesting to divide the tile with the MI2 tangle. In the end result, I’m not sure I like it. I was certainly uncomfortable to work this way.
Several “ribbon” type tangles appeared in the random selection today. I used them to create the “string” and filled in the spaces between with more randomly selected tangles. I think it worked out well! Zentangle drawn on Strathmore Vellum Bristol using a black, Micron pen. Shading done with graphite pencil. Tangles: Doo Dah Ixorus Olb Pais Pokeleaf Snail Twing
Finally, a gold and maroon tile from Eni Oken's Crazy Gold Auraknot lesson. While I liked the idea of this, it turned out harder to do than it looked. I found that the widest marking gold pen that I had was kind of sketchy when used to fill in the solid ribbons. On the other hand, I found one with a very fine line that I liked along for creating the patterned details.