Morphing Tangles Lesson now back again

Slowly but surely I'm passing all the older lessons to the new lessons website on teachable. The latest one is the super, duper, ultra advanced lesson on MORPHING TANGLES, a fun and surprising skill for advanced tanglers who are looking for a challenge

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What is Morphing?

Although there are other names (some call this “blending”), in my book MORPHING is a transformation, when one tangle pattern becomes a different one. In a Morph, you can CLEARLY see the intermediate steps where one tangle acquires the characteristics of another.

For example, in the image below you can clearly see how Crescent Moon (at the top) slowly and gradually becomes more oval and starts to incorporate some of the characteristics of Printemps. At the very bottom, you see the Printemps fully developed.

In between the TOP AND BOTTOM, you see the steps of the transformation, or the MORPH.

This is simple to do when both tangles have similar characteristics such as Printemps and Crescent Moon (both rounder tangles by Zentangle), but what can you do when the tangles are different, each one with their unique traits?

It's all about “tangle envy”, that is, one tangle acquiring the traits of the other. You can see this in a much more complex Morph where Sandswirl (Karry Heun) slowly transforms into Emingle (Zentangle), by becoming more and more squarish:

This is what this lesson on Morphing covers, giving you a SOLID methodology on how to approach complex transformations. Here you can see one between JaySix (Eni Oken) and Caviar (Lori Howe). Notice how Jaysix slowly acquires the drama and inking of Caviar.

Here you can see a completed tile with the two Morphs described above, in a very dramatic picture. The composition of the picture is not that complex, but the Morphs are so rich and complex they take over the piece.

The Morphing lesson doesn't stop at Organic fillers only. Originally, I had divided this lesson into two hour-long videos, sold separately. The first lesson covered grids and organic fillers, while the second one covered edge/weed and ribbon tangles.

Here you can see a few examples of how a Morph can be applied to ribbon style tangles, that is, tangles that follow a linear path.

Now that I have a new lesson platform, it is much easier to combine multiple videos, so both Morphing parts are offered as one super, duper, ultra advanced lesson on how to Morph tangles:

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