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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Biggify

This week the challenge from The Diva was to make our tangle patterns larger than we usually do.  I had been thinking of this very thing for a little while.  I really love the tangle Tripoli yet when I go back to add embellishments to my triangles, I think that sometimes they become muddled.  I seem to be afraid to made a bigger design though.  Why?  Who knows.  It was nice to get "permission" this week to stretch out the patterns and to give them the room to grow.

Funnily enough, I didn't use Tripoli in my tile. I started with Rain.  I like the graphic quality of it and as I have just started to use it, I wanted to explore it more.  I chose Fife because I need more practice with it.  Making it large makes it easier for me to create it.  Bigger gives a lot of negative space behind the pattern which almost begs for more pattern there but I stopped and just shaded.  I thought about blacking the background but I was afraid that I would lose Rain.  I next tried SOCC.  This is a new pattern and is quite striking I think.  I am really looking forward to using it more in the future.  Lastly, I added Umble.  I love it's curves.

I will try to work a little bigger in the future.  I confess I get stuck with the same size patterns and to break that pattern will be a challenge but a fun one.  Bigger will be fun when it comes to adding layers of tangles to a tile or ZIA, and I look forward to the challenge.

11 comments:

  1. Hiya you have done wonderful shading with your work. I haven't got around to use shading yet. Interesting to see what others say about this challenge, lots of different perceptives. Well done for completed your challenge.

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  2. Love your tile! I had many of the same observations about trying to work bigger, but this was one of my favorite challenges so far.

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  3. Very interesting tile. One's eye darts around the black triangles!

    K.N.Malathi

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  4. I like your tile! It gives a layered appearance. Nice work.

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  5. Your tangle shows big can be beautiful.

    Dilip

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  6. Well done, all these tangles look beautiful together!

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  7. Beautiful tile! I love your combination of tangles, especially Socc, but I'm probably a little biased. lol

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  8. Fabulous mix of light and dark!!

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