Straight Lines and Voadora tangle
Yesterday Art Clubbers and I had a SUPER fun session tangling on Zoom with Straight line tangles. We used only tangles that have straight lines, that is, that use the I of ICSO.
The acronym ICSO represents the 5 Elemental Strokes used to create every possible tangle:
We started with Phroz (Lynn Mead) and Naaki (Nadine Roller) over a string of straight lines:
Next, we added Anthem (Jody Genovese) and also Hollibaugh filled in with Auraknot:
After that, I introduced a new tangle called “Voadora”. This is a Portuguese word that means “Flyer”, because the third step of the tangle reminded me of the wings of some kind of flying contraption. I simply love the way that the tangle forms a meta-pattern, that is a rounded curve even though it’s entirely made of straight lines. This is similar to what happens to Paradox.
So we added a bit of Voadora to the empty spots.
Here's the original picture I created for the class along with the one developed during class:
We had about 60 participants in the class! Here are some of their beautiful pictures:
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Nursing the flu with a sore throat had me drawing quietly this week, no classes. The Art Raffle gave me an orb string and Mrth (Zentangle) and some other tangles. My hand had other plans and just went Crescent Moon on me, and suddenly it just wanted to tangle Aquafleur. I like it!