Thursday, April 4, 2013

Adventures in Monotangles #5


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.

I have a page with more detailed instructions here.

Here is this week’s entry in the ongoing challenge. (Before shading)


15 comments:

  1. Very 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! :-)

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    1. Sure 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.

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  2. Yes, we all need more help with this.
    I found a 10 sided triangle on your pattern site.
    How does that translate into a 20 sided?

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  3. 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.

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  4. I 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.

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    1. I have never done any Zentangle challenges, but I feel obligated to do this one after all those questions!

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  5. Ok I added a page with detailed instruction... here: http://mindful-creations.blogspot.com/p/ongoing.html

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  6. Thanks 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.

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  7. Okay. I get the 20 sides thing-majiggy...how to print it and how to make it and how to fold it.
    But 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

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  8. 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!

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  9. I 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.

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  10. I 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.

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  11. Great to do your challenge again. Although I kept it simple I enjoyed making this tile. Up to the next :)

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