Square One; Hump Day 11, 12, 13; Inspired by...

Square One week September 13-19 featuring Sikito which I overlaid over the tangle Aloha.

Tangle Patterns: Sikito, Aloha

Square One, with the week of August 30 to September 5, had the tangle Molygon featured. The sample tile was a simple Molygon cloud on a black square. I loved the concept and implemented it on my one-sided Molygon butterfly with an Indy-Rella body.

Tangle Patterns: Molygon, Indy-Rella

I tried to manipulate the butterfly a bit. What if I make a cracked oil painting out of it? OK Photoshop, hpo into action! Hmm.. it looks better, or maybe it is the frame I add?

It's raining here and the air feels clammy. Just the kind of weather I do not cope well with while others enjoy the time off the hot sun. Banned to my desk I looked through my unfinished tiles, of which I have a few, and there was a Square One tile from August 15th with All Boxed Up. I made a bunch of Monsterra and Snailway snailing its way through the tile.

Tangle Patterns: All Boxed Up, Monsterra, Snailway

Square One week September 6-12 with 3Pair. All in all I made 3 tiles, trying to "make something" with it, but it didn't work out well. So I will bore you only with 2. 3Pair with 3-corner cadent and 3Pair and a more liberal version as flowers with Stickers and some Toodles to fill the background.

Tangle Pattern: 3Pair

Tangle Patterns: 3Pair,, Stickers, Toodles

Update 15 September (I wrote the above about 10 days earlier) All that you just read above has become false a few days later. I just couldn't get my hands to stop draw-trying more 3Pair. So here is the 4th and really the last tile - with a lace edge.

Tangle Pattern: 3Pair

Inspired by...Geerandola, an organic tangle. Or a cephalopods if slightly altered? Certainly reminds me a bit of a nautilus. I added Zigmat, Zinger, Coffeebean Flower, and Crescent Moon, all hydrophytes, or aquatic plants as well.

Tangle Patterns: Geerandola,  Zigmat, Zinger, Coffeebean Flower, and Crescent Moon

A Pattern under Inspection

In one of the last emails from Pattern Collection about 'deconstructing patterns' they talked about how seemingly tricky patterns can reveal simplifying 'clues' if looked at from different perspectives. I looked at the pattern they showed as an example and thought that - since it is Sunday and I have nothing better to do - I give it a try.

My first attempt, starting with the small circles, was a flop. So I tried the squares. That seemed the way to go, however, since I drew the squares too far apart the crosses didn't work out. So I took out my grid paper and sure enuff, I got my step-out to this 'tricky' pattern in 5 simple steps: penciled grid, squares, circles, loops, and crosses.

There is already a step-out called Curly Squares. It shows that you control the pattern by where you place the squares.

So here we go, Curly Square tangle step-out variation a la sng.

Tangle Pattern: Curly Square a la sng

Inspired by...Curly Square. Now that we have a step-out what about a variation? In this tile I exchanged the 'curly' part with Mooka-loops and put the whole thing into an ogee grid.

Tangle Patterns: Curly Square with Mooka-loops, Snailway

Another Inspired by...tangle: Flostar by Hennie Brouwer. When I saw the stepout I didn't think I would be drawing the tangle, unless of course, it would be featured in a challenge. But then I saw another Flostar tile by Hennie, filled with Paradox, and I became inspired (sorry, I don't have a link for those 2 tiles she drew). So I looked at the stepout again, but noticed that there was a bit of a difference in the steps to the Flostar I saw on the tile. In the stepout we draw the curves in step 2 like a question mark, in step 3 and 4 like an S, while on her later tiles all curves are drawn in the same direction. I had to do both - of course.

So this is done according to stepout - 2 different directions...

Tangle Patterns: Flostar with tipple

...and in these two tiles I only drew the curves in one direction. One with beads and the other with big and small Flostars.

Tangle Patterns: Flostar, big and small

Hump Day #12; first Wednesday of the month with an S-String and S-Tangle(s) for the month S-eptember (so next month it is all about 'O'). I have 2 s-curves and applied the tangle Steps. However, I admit Steps turned out a bit different - Starfishy of sorts maybe? - but what counts is that I had Steps planned and on my mind when drawing this blue tile.

Tangle Patterns: Steps or Starfish something

I did another Hump Day S-eptember tile. This time with real Steps.

Tangle Pattern: Steps

Labor Day! You can say that again. "Labor Day!" It should say "Labor DayS". I indeed labored for this tile and I had headaches on how to draw this challenge. The weekly tangle challenge by Boomeresque, with Hump Day challenge #11, week of August 28-September 3, had the motto "Steampunk" as focus. Although I thought this was quite appropriate considering the Labor day weekend, I am absolutely no Steampunk tangler. Full stop. Still, I accepted the challenge and "labored" over several days adding here a screw and there a nut until finally I had a tile. I have no idea what the 'tangles' are called, but there is a recognizable Strutz and 2 strength adjustable magnifying glasses in it. Well, one is adjustable the other is not.

Tangle Patterns: Strutz and several unnamed

Hump Day #13. It is time I upload this post, but there is always "yet another tile" in the making and thus I keep populating it. Anyway, Hump Day #13, a Boomeresque.com challenge series, has the theme Tree Nymphs for this week. I used my very ONE go-to tangle Narwal for the tree's top, Diva Dance for its trunk, added some Ruutz and Coffeebean Flower/Damsel Leaf (same tangle; different artists) for 'grass'. The little hanging stars represent the tree nymphs.

Tangle Patterns: Narwal, Diva Dance, Ruutz, Coffeebean Flower/Damsel Leaf

Goodbye to IAST

You noticed, there is no IAST in my post title. It was sad to learn that Adele Bruno has retired her weekly challenge series after her 302nd 'tickle', IAST's 6th Birthday. 6 years of hard work, 302 strings, nearly 1,000 tangles, over 9000 tiles sent in from 100's of tanglers from 36 different countries, and tons of the tiles she commented with her little tangle bits, all just to keep us tanglers busy and entertained is remarkable to say the least. I for one miss her, but I also understand Adele's decision and I thank her for her dedication from the bottom of my heart. IAST may you R.I.P.

My personal stats with IAST? First tile which I didn't send in due to lack of reading about deadline was for challenge #181; total tiles I drew for IAST: 117 (for a few challenges I drew 2 tiles); and my last was for #302, published in my previous post.

My first IAST tile

Animal Happy Day

We all know former President Bush, 41. We also know that he had a service dog later in his life called Sully. What you may not know is what happened to Sully after his duty at the Bush residence got terminated. Well, click below and see for yourself...




C.O. has finally 'moved in' - all by himself, didn't give a hand, just to be clear. Yeah, we get along - sort of - his sleeping hours differ to mine. He still has to learn that when I am still sleeping I am still sleeping (at 4 am). So presently he goes through the lessons that it is me who is in control of the exit door and I am quick even that early in the morning.

The rainy season has started here, causing the air to be rather uncomfy humid and clammy. Still, I wish you a great few weeks until my next post makes the net.

Thanks for visiting!

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