Keeping It Simple

This weeks Diva Challenge was supposed to take tanglers back to the basics. However, since I have no basics to reference or go back to, it was quite a challenge for me! The goal was to take a simple 3.5-inch “tile” of paper and to tangle a simple design with 4-5 patterns using only a single back pen and a pencil for shading. Well I have no tiles, so I went back to my 3.5×5.5 journal and marked off what I thought was a square (well, it didn’t look quite like a square when I finished–it was more of a wonky square). Then I went to looking through my periodical resources to find 4-5 tangle patterns that I thought I might be able to recreate with out too much trouble but that I liked and that seemed to fit the string, or area divisions I had created in my square. This is what I finally ended up with:

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I don’t know. I’m proud to have been brave enough to try and I did enjoy the process of creating the finished tile. It is obvious that I still need a LOT of practice! 🙂

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Have a happy, arty day!

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corrinegilman on January 13, 2016 at 1:08 pm

Looks amazingly complicated to me!!! xox

zksmith on January 13, 2016 at 3:32 pm

Great tangles! I like the boxes that look 3-dimensional!

Jill Holmes on January 13, 2016 at 10:44 pm

Thanks, Zsuzsa! I am slowly learning some techniques. I’m kind of partial to the 3-D boxes, too. Maybe next time I’ll make them more square like they should be! LOL
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magratscraft on January 13, 2016 at 3:59 pm

We ALL need lots of practice and I think this tile is great. you chose your patterns well and the idea of letting half the Purk slide off the edge of the tile is inspired. Love it.