That tangle in the lower right-hand corner is called ‘Nzpple, and when learning it, I was told it would really pop when done. I very much doubted that would be the case as I worked through it, but when I was finished, pop it did!
More Rixty practice with some stripes. I try to repeat the new tangles that I learn several times until they are solid in my head.
Here I am practicing Rixty, that triangle branch shape tangle.
More meetings…
More meetings. This was the last week of the main meetings.
I like the river of spheres in this one.
In this one, I went and picked a bunch of tangles that I don’t do as often.
I enjoy the vertical nature of this one.
This may have been the point when I learned Bronx Cheer. It’s that berry-looking one in the middle, and it’s the tangle that lets you color over things you don’t like.
More meetings! I like how I carried the curved lines through different sections.
In this one, I was shading the same tangle in different ways.
I can also tell that the above is a homemade tile. Bit of a cutting error at the top.
Here’s another one with same tangle, different shading. More successful, I think.
This is much larger than real life, it’s the artist trading card size. I did it during a long meeting at work. Also, I have glasses now, and still this is out of focus! Grrr.
I asked Matt if he wanted to do a fun advent project, the Advent of Tess, where we fold Origami Tessellations every day. Matt said yes, I’ve been going through the Foundations course. It’s kind of a lot, complicated by the fact that I’ve been using brown kraft paper, which I first must cut to size.
But here I have completed one of the first foundations projects, an example of pleat reordering. I had to have Matt help me, but I got it done. This is a 32×32 grid, which is a lot to fold before you even get to the pleat reordering.
I messed up in the middle; the horizontal middle band is supposed to be 2 grids, not three, but other than that, I did it. Onto the next thing.
This one looks a little like a map in the back of a fantasy novel.
Here are two more Zentangles. Because May is mental health month, they are having a tangle along. They are using their triangular tiles. I don’t have those, so I’m using triangular-type shapes on the artist cards.
I’m also experimenting with a new way to add my initials to my tiles.
