Day Six: another Mehndi design, this complex seeming pattern is ideal for a tangle centrepiece. The pattern is essentially repeated variations on a border pattern built into overlapping shapes, as are many Mehndi patterns.
Tomorrow’s final instalment for this week’s daily doses: ‘Waterlily’.
Day Five: this is another design from the Mehndi tradition, giving lots of opportunity to fill space and abandon geometry. A couple of guidelines: three branches per flower coming from the same spot – they are meant to whorl round, but not always easy to do… The leaves occur on just one side of each branch.
Tomorrow’s concentric centrepiece: ‘Walled Garden’.
Day Four: based on Mehndi designs, this tangle pattern comes in two variations. The trick to this is to have one of the chain loops drawn within the vertical bar when crossing over the top. Lots of opportunity to shade this one to help give more depth to your pattern.
Tomorrow’s loveliness: ‘Flower Whorl’.
Day Three: based on Mehndi designs, this pattern reminded me of the cowrie shells I came across when living in the Middle East as a child.
Tomorrow’s bit of tangle heaven: ‘Swizzlestik’.
Day Two: another daisy-based tangle pattern, in part inspired from Mehndi designs and in part original doodle.
Tomorrow’s dose of tangle delights: ‘Cowrie’.
Well dear reader, welcome to another week of daily tangle goodness 🙂
This first pattern is direct from a childhood memory of a small ball bearing in a capsule simulating a Mexican jumping bean. Just one rule with this – make sure the ‘ball’ is consistently placed by gravity, only horizontal capsules can have the ball placed anywhere. Fill in the gaps with movement lines.
Tomorrow’s pattern: ‘Ovate’.
Day Seven: I’ve saved my favourite until last… Rokpool developed from a sketch twice the size, but I couldn’t tell what fit into the gap between what became mussels neatly lined up. So I shrank the sketch down, and added the ripples. I love the pattern that resulted, and it reminds me of woodcut type patterns.
There you go, another week of daily patterns is over. I hope you enjoyed them!
Day Six: what happens when you mix zigzags with curvaceous lines? Fans and peacock tails! Or at least that’s what happened when I tried it late one evening… I think the shading makes this one zing.
Tomorrow’s final dose of daily tangle goodness: ‘Rokpool’.
Day Five: playing with triangles again today resulted in something akin to layered baubles. Or odd shaped onions. Or may be several cyclopses laying on their sides. Or strange flying saucers. Any how, it’s today’s offering for tangling fun 🙂
Tomorrow’s penultimate dose of tangling instruction: ‘Fantails’.
Day Four: almost as painful as treading on one of those Danish bricks that inspired this simple pattern. My wrist started aching after drawing three panels of tiny circles! The rule for this one is to stick to the traditional brick sizes when drawing in your grid in step two. Those that like to tangle in colour will like the shading opportunities presented here.
Tomorrow’s tangle loveliness: ‘Bawballs’.