Rainbow Shading Sampler

Rainbow Shading, Rainbow Shading, that's all we have here! As what is (tentatively) the last class of this series, member of my Art Club asked for more practice with different tangles. So I came up with this sampler of various tangles and that's what we're going to do next Friday.

Here's a mini-step out of what we'll do, slowly testing the Rainbow Shading technique with different tangles, forming a sampler of sorts.

I'm extraordinarily happy with the results of this new multi-part series format. This allows Clubbers time to learn each technique and concept.

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