I sometimes do the little "shortcuts" that I think make things better. Either in appearance or ease of producing. In doing Zentangle (R) tiles, I sometimes use a dot grid from a printout of dots I made (along with squares also). It all depends on waht I am doing and how uniform I want it to look. I do most of my work freehand, however there are times when I want my dots or squares to line up. I mostly do this when I am learning to do a pattern. After I have "learned" how to do it, then I play. Then I do the what if. What if I curve the lines, what if the lines are wavy, what if the dots are farther apart or closer together? Sometimes I cheat on Sudoku puzzles also. If the answer is in the back of the book and I am seriously stuck, I cheat. I don't, however, cheat on reading. I will not flip to the back of a book to see the ending, I like being in suspense as to the outcome. I don't cheat at cards. Years ago my husband and I were playing poker for Pokeno chips. He ended up taking all my chips and I realized he was dealing from the bottom of the deck, so to speak. I have not played poker since ( that was over 30 years ago). When I said something to him about it he chuckled. When I put puzzles together I break apart all the pieces first, mix them up and don't use already attached pieces.
Do you cheat?
Enough on that subject. I was playing around with Fracas an official Zentangle(R) tangle earlier and came up with a pattern I really like. It reminds me of so many other patterns, with little twists. I woke up this morning and played with it some more. I originally started with what I think of as the cross pattern (i.e. the beginnings of Fracas, Ixorus, Drupe, etc.). I guess it's more like a star shape.
After I played with that I went on to a square gird,
a triangle, and a circle.
More triangles.
My practice page.
Some Inchies.
Finally I had to come up with a name. This was not an easy task. After much deliberation, I came up with Decollation. Why? It reminds me of Art Deco and also tangellations on numerous other tangles.
The step outs for Decollation are below.
Decollation Monotangle.
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| Almost pretangle |
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| Before shading |
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| Shaded |
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