Welcome to another week in the Adventures of Monotangles.
Tonight was a great night, as it was my wife’s monthly shamanic journey circle,
so I was able to sit on the couch and tangle and listen to the drumming coming from
the living room. If you have never done Zentangle® to rhythmic drumming I
cannot recommend it enough. As both practices lower your mind into a meditative
state, it is a double dose of relaxation. The fact that tonight was the circle
also reminded me that I really want to start tangling the drum I bought. I
think I will start taking it to work with me and work on it on my lunch hours.
This week’s adventure is another set tangle. As last week
was a curvy organic tangle that was an official tangle without a published step
out, this week’s will be the opposite. The tangle for this week it very
straight, (curved lines make it a different tangle) and there is a step out, it
is even on Tanglepatterns.com. The pattern
for this week is W2, the Tanglepatterens page for it is here.
I did two different tiles for this challenge, the 1st
I used W2 as a string, then used W2 inside it is different sizes.
The second one I used both a ripped open paper effect, and
romancy effect under that.
Ongoing Monotangle challenge. As a bonus challenge starting
this week and going for the next 20 weeks, I am proposing a 20 sided challenge.
Below is a link to a template for creating a 20-sided 3D object. I print the pattern out on card stock and
trace a triangle on the back side each week. When finished you will be able to fold it up,
and roll it to decide on a pattern if you are drawing a blank. When I did this
before I taped a penny on the inside of each side to give it weight.
Here is the site for the pattern.
Here is this week’s entry in the ongoing challenge. (Before shading)
hihi making our own dice GREAT.
ReplyDeleteVery cool concept of the dice thing. I am a bit slow with all things math, however. Could you possibly explain the process a little better? I see two templates, do I need a top and bottom and if so how do you join them together. Also, what do you mean by tracing triangles on the back? I am sorry to ask so many questions, but as I said, I can be a bit confused! :-)
ReplyDeleteSure thing, I'll do another post with step by step instructions. Will go up tonight or tomorrow. Thanks for asking for this, I am sure it will help others also.
DeleteThanks very much!
DeleteYes, we all need more help with this.
ReplyDeleteI found a 10 sided triangle on your pattern site.
How does that translate into a 20 sided?
I am working on better instructions, I will add a page to the blog with step by step instructions. I should have it up tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI also want to point out that the adventure this week is not the 20-sided object. That is a bonus challenge that will continue each ween until it is finished.
ReplyDeleteI have never done any Zentangle challenges, but I feel obligated to do this one after all those questions!
DeleteOk I added a page with detailed instruction... here: http://mindful-creations.blogspot.com/p/ongoing.html
ReplyDeleteThanks for the W2 challenge. What I wanted to do immediately popped into my head. What came out doesn't exactly match, but that is part of the process, too.
ReplyDeleteOkay. I get the 20 sides thing-majiggy...how to print it and how to make it and how to fold it.
ReplyDeleteBut 20 weeks? I did 10 of them in two days. These are quite small. Surely we can do this is about two weeks at the most. I don't think you should drag it out over 20 weeks! I am posting my first 10 on my blog today (April 7). Take a look. Why should this take so long? http://ginnystiles.blogspot.com
Ginny, I understand what you are talking about and I highly recommend making more than the one for the ongoing Adventure. A big part of the ongoing adventure, is to see if you can slow down, and add the tangle from each weeks adventure to the 20-sided dice. I love the work you have already posted to your blog!
ReplyDeleteI liked this tangle the more I practiced. I still need to check out the 20 Week challenge, don't know if that will fit into my general living right now.
ReplyDeleteI discovered your challenge through "Tanglebucket" and this is my 1st participation. I hope I'll be able to join regularly as I'm becoming more and more fan of tangle.
ReplyDeleteGreat to do your challenge again. Although I kept it simple I enjoyed making this tile. Up to the next :)
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