Adele's String Thing Challenge this week was to use string #102 and our choice of three tangles: Frost Flower, Sez, and Graancirkel. This time around, I played and played, with the tangles and the string and all kinds of combinations.
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This was the first tile, the only piece with all three patterns in it. It reminds me of the beginnings of ice on the edges of a pond. Graancirkel made it into this tile, but none of the others. It needs to be bigger and I want to play with it more.
Here is a tile with just Frost Flower and sez.
There is just the faintest hint of powder blue in a few places here. I like how shading makes Sez look layered. I tried to make the frost flowers more edgy around the fringes, but for some reason, I stopped at the string and then "added" the more fringey ends, but that made it look so choppy.
And the third piece was a tile, traced into my sketchbook. It is a monotangle of Frost Flower and I really like how it turned out, though it reminds me of some other tangle that I can't put my finger on for some reason.
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| what other tangle does this remind me of? |
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Shading wherever the string is adds a lot to this piece. You see the couple of places where I put fanned lines instead of Frost Flowers? And this is the one I like the best, mostly because you can really see the string...and what else is it about? It IS "A String Thing", after all.
I like the first one the best I think, but then I am a sucker for likeing the coloured tiles. I found it hard to fit Grasncirkle in too, it does need space. I think it may be the Swarm tangle pattern you are thinking of with frost flower. I found them to be very similar, of course I may not be drawing them correctly. Sometimes I think new tangle patterns are more like variations of an existing pattern and wonder if there should be more of distinction.
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