Persian Carpet any one? Oh, spoiler alert, that’s tomorrow’s tangle pattern! Today’s is from a Turkoman carpet. I don’t know where that is either… Somewhere near to the ottoman may be? Quick ‘n’ simple, excellent for running in rows as a border.
Tomorrow, 5 of 14: well, you already know 🙂
This little beauty is based on ceramic tiles from Susa. I don’t know where that is either… Looks great across large areas, and repeats well.
Tomorrow’s tangle pattern, 4 of 14: ‘Turkoman’.
Well here’s a fabulous pattern! It’s all about the negative space as well as the drawn areas, and if you get it right, it looks like a 3D shaded lattice. It’s based on a Persian stucco design from 13th or 14th century. A different take on ‘Cubine’.
And tomorrow, 3 of 14: ‘Susa’.
This is the first of a series of patterns based on Persian designs that I have found in a fabulous book by Ali Dowlatshahi ‘Persian Designs and Motifs for artists and craftsmen’, a Dover Publications sourcebook from 1979. Thank goodness for the college library 🙂
This one is similar to several other ‘eye’ type patterns out there, but I think the steps are unique. I’m sure someone will let me know if they are not!
Tomorrow, 2 of 14: ‘Persian Lattice’.
To make up for the fact I didn’t manage to create any patterns during September, I have fourteen new patterns for release through October. Starting tomorrow, there’s a fortnight of tangle goodness coming your way! Find your Arab coffee cups and sheesha pipes – we’re going Persian 🙂
Dear readers –
I have been spectacularly unsuccessful in trying to give away this fabulous handmade book of my tangle patterns in honour of my 10,000th blog view! The idea was that a subscriber would win it, but I have now emailed three of them using the addresses submitted during subscription, and none have replied. Not sure if that’s their spam software playing up or what.
So, just a reminder of what’s available:
The cover is hand-tangled with my own designs [it’s taken ages!] and will be personalised with the initial letter of the winner’s choosing before being sealed with a gloss varnish finish. It’s a hand-crafted book [which took ages too!], with hard cover and sewn and glued spine.
Inside are colour copies of all my tangle patterns from January to June 2011, and the eight tags contain hand-drawn tangles, with tips on shading, creating patterns and a unique and unpublished, exclusive tangle pattern.
This time, please reply to this post, stating why you would like to win this fabulous prize. I’ll pick the most ‘deserving’ and post the winner on 31st August, so you have plenty of time. Hopefully this way I can actually give it away!
Bank Holiday Special Part Two: a great border pattern, but also will fill in gaps nicely. Several ways of drawing this (as normal) but this is the way it happened when I was experimenting. I think the shading helps develop depth and form.
A Bank Holiday Weekend Special – two new tangle patterns, one today and one tomorrow. Today’s is prone to mistakes, as it’s easy to lose track of which kite is up/down and left/right. If the vertical arrows meet, then the horizontal ones don’t and vice versa. I did come up with several variations when drawing out the steps by filling in the gaps with concave diamonds and ovals using the crosses as guidelines.
Tomorrow’s tangle goodness: ‘Zippa’.
Ok, so I’m guessing it will be at some point while I’m asleep tonight, but I couldn’t wait a moment longer before sharing my celebratory prize with you! In recognition of a fantastic 25,000 views in less than six months, I have created my largest zentangle-inspired artwork (ZIA) to date. And it’s a giveaway!
Entitled ’71’, this A3-sized pen and pencil ZIA contains all seventy one tangle patterns I’ve published on this blog. This unique prize can be yours!
To have a chance of winning this one-of-a-kind prize, all you need to do is to create your own ZIA incorporating only patterns from my blog and share it with me by posting a link to your blog entry (preferred) or emailing a scan/photo of your creation via the link at the top of the sidebar (if you don’t have a blog). I don’t mind how many of my patterns you use, nor what size of ZIA you create. I hope to be able to create a gallery on my blog of all the entries to this challenge, celebrating your artistic exuberance. And to be fair to all-comers, I’ll select the winner by random draw of all entries. Entries close at 23:59 GMT on Saturday 10th September.
And thank you all for your interest, encouragement and for following my blog for the last five months 🙂
Day Seven: another Mehndi inspired pattern, this flower shape reminded me of the best waterlilies. Remind me to show you how to make 3D versions out of punched paper… Couple of guidelines for this: it doesn’t matter how many scollops you have in the outer border and the lines in step 5 curve to meet the base of the line starting two scollops before to make the coloured in segment.
That wraps up this week’s daily tangles, hope you’ve enjoyed them.