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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