Blending Tangles Class

Yesterday I had a fantastic class with the Art Clubbers - I know, I say that for every class, but this one was really incredible - on how to blend tangles together. Blending is an advanced technique where one tangle seamlessly blends into the next.

Now keep in mind that what I call a blend is not what others may think of a blend. There is a difference between a Tango (combining two tangles where all features populate the string area), a Morph (where one tangle gradually transforms in to the next and a Blend (where each tangle stays in their area, but the boundaries and soft and seamless).

Here are some examples of Blends using a single fragment of each tangle:

Of all three (Tango, Blends and Morph), I find the Blends to be the easiest one, but it's still pretty tricky. Some tangles are much harder to blend than others. Here are more examples of blends:

This is the project we worked on, a simple 9 section square grid, each one filled with a different tangle:

And here are the tangles we used, all of them selected with my Art Raffle app:

The idea was to fill up each section with a different tangle using blending. Pretty easy when there are only two tangles conversing with each other.

A lot more complicated when there are NINE tangles and you need to deal with all the different boundaries. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't!

This class did not include shading, but here's a different version already shaded.

And here's the mosaic with some of the classe's student work. Sooooo cool!

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