Paradox: Narrow, Narrow, Wide

When recently I missed the deadline to send my 'Narrow-Narrow-Wide' Paradox tile for Adele Bruno's 'It's a String Thing' (IAST) challenge #268 I decide the tile might be a candidate as my first contribution to the Facebook Zentangle Group 'ZIA Tips, Tricks, and Techniques'.

My Narrow, Narrow, Wide Paradox tile

Although I tried to explain in words how I drew Paradox, words are often not enough. So when people showed interest and asked questions in the technique I deconstructed and reconstructed my 'Narrow, Narrow, Wide Paradox' tile and came up with the following Step-out.

1. The base string came from Adele Bruno at Tickled to Tangle as the weekly IAST string. If you are not familiar with her and her challenge IAST, please click on the link. Every week she provides a string and one or more tangles to challenge us. Instructions for the challenge are found on all her challenge posts and the good thing...you do not have to have your own website or be on a social media site to partake in her challenges, you email an image of your tile to her.

So here Adele's original string

Original IAST #268 string by Adele Bruno

Original string on my tile.

Original String on my Paradox tile

2. Sections/Segments. Next I added sections to the string. I may have missed the one or other section or made a mistake here or there...it wasn't easy to find them all and redraw them correctly, but I think you get the general idea. My goal was to get triangles.

Adding sections to the string to get triangles

3. Now the fun part started: drawing Paradox. Into each triangle I drew the paradox lines narrow, narrow, wide, or narrow, wide, narrow, or.... It doesn't really matter as long as you mix them up. In the below section I started with the top line narrow from left into the right corner. 2. line from the lowest point up to the left corner and finally the 3rd line wide from the right down to the bottom corner.

Narrow, Narrow, Wide 1. Section

Then I added the 2nd section where I started with wide, then narrow, narrow.

2nd section added

Here the 2 finished sections.

2 sections finished

Final Narrow, Narrow, Wide Paradox tile.

Final Narrow, Narrow, Wide Paradox tile

Tip: I always liked the 'fan' you can draw with paradox when 2 sections are drawn mirror style. Of course, this is possible with NNW as well when the base line for the wide lines becomes the base line for wide in the adjoining section (blue). If the adjoining section is narrow, the fan 'shades off' (green).

The Paradox 'Fans'

Coloring: metallic color pencils by Raffine.

I hope the step-outs are of use, but if you still have questions, please contact me.

Maybe one of these days I will see a 'Narrow, Narrow, Wide Paradox' tile on FB?

Happy Tangling

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IAST 267/8, DIVA 375, Inktober18, Gratitangles18, and a Refresher

I had a rather busy days last week and could't put pen to paper for five days. The longest abstinence since I started tangling in Dec 2015. I suffered terrible withdrawal symptoms. However, now I am back with a vengeance....

I hadn't finished the last 4 days of Inktober 2018 tiles, so let's begin with them.

Inktober18 day 28 Oybay and 29 Wud.

Tangle Patterns: Oybay, Wud

♻️ Inktober18 day 30 Frunky and 31 Cruffle, here on a toilet roll tile again, which I cut open and pulled over the table edge to flatten. I like the colors of these tiles and the drawing experience on the cardboard isn't bad either.

Tangle Patterns: Frunky, Cruffle

I never ever thought that WUD wud inspire me, but it did and wud not leave my mind until I did something about it. So here my "Inspired by...Wud" tiles.

Wud abstract. I love this one, I admit. The tile is from a business card sheet that is centuries old.

Tangle Pattern: Wud abstract

Wud bookmark - and I don't even read physical books anymore. All digital. So much lighter to carry tons of books with you when going on holiday or moving house.

Tangle Pattern: Wud

♻️ I hadn't finished my Wud bookmark tile when an idea popped up in my head..a silly idea. Here my Californian SF Wud Gate bridge. Bad weather was churning up in the East and it started to rain so I hurried home, else I wud have drawn several more Wud Gate bridge tiles on toilet rolls.

Tangle Patterns: Wud Gate bridge, Pop-Cloud, Sails, Diva Dance, Ruutz

My first tile after the torturous 5-day abstinence was for Adele, IAST challenge #267. I had to hurry if I wanted to meet the deadline. Drew it Saturday evening and took the photo Sunday morning outside in daylight. To live in the East, 12 hours away from the US, has definitely its advantages. The tile is a small Post-It notepaper.

Tangle Patterns:  Crescent Moon, Pokeroot, Static

....and then the new IAST #268 was published before I could count on 3. So I made this 2-sided Paradox.

Tangle Patterns:  Paradox 2-sided

I was still working on Inktober18 when a tangler friend sent me an images of the Gratitangles 2018 challenge running in FB. It's a Thanksgiving thing from what I understand and runs the 30 days of November. Love it! So here we go for November...

♻️ Gratitangles18 day 1 Rain with Icicles on a toilet roll tile.

Tangle Pattern: Rain (with icicles)

Gratitangles18 day 2 and 4 with Pepper, as leaves, and Jetties. The blue thing on the right was supposed to be Cadent, now it is just extra stuff. Cadent got an extra tile, see below.

Tangle Patterns: Pepper, Jetties

Gratitangles18 day 5 Cadent in a day 7 Fracas string - sort of - on an old business card tile. Well, I guess the Fracas string probably doesn't count so Fracas is back to the drawing board so be drawn on another day.

Tangle Pattern:  Cadent, some Bales

DIVA challenge #375 with Burtz and Gratitangles 2018 day 3 with Opus and lots of Sez to replace some of Opus' Tipples.

Tangle Patterns: Burtz, Opus, Sez

Refresher #190 - Bales, Aprox, Ah-nyx, Tessell, Torsdag. I made 2 tiles because, yes, I know I repeat myself, because I didn't like the first one. Unfortunately, the second one didn't turn out much better, so I blame it all on the tangles - but Tessell. I had to draw Tessell again....

Tangle Patterns: Bales, Aprox, Ah-nyx, Tessell, Torsdag

Tangle Patterns: Bales, Aprox, Ah-nyx, Tessell, Torsdag

Inspired by... Tessell. So here we go, a bookmark and 2 mini tiles.

Tangle Pattern: Tessell

Tessell in a wonky grid...

Tangle Pattern: Tessell

....and here I took 2 of the suggested versions and combined them drawing one vertically and the other horizontally.

Tangle Pattern: Tessell

Other Art

Inside The Mind

When I came across this image I instantly started cleaning up MY mind...just in case.

Animal & Human Happy Day

Yes, a Human got adopted, too! Be warned though, this video is so cute you have to restrain yourself from running to the next orphanage and dog shelter to get yourself a pair.

Enjoy the weekend.

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