This week’s challenge from the Diva was a monotangle of Dex, a lovely pattern developed by Maria Thomas, co-founder of Zentangle®. I found this week’s challenge quite daunting. It wasn’t because the pattern is hard to draw. It’s actually fairly simple; especially if you start with a grid as the first step. My problem was in making an interesting tile using ONLY this tangle. My muse totally left me when I was trying to come up with tangleations. Plus, I cheated and looked at many of the entries and was totally blown away by the beauty and ingenuity displayed in some of the tiles. My favorites are the ones that are three-dimensional. If you go take a look, you’ll recognize them right away. However, I persevered to come up with something, and here it is:
You did a great job! I love the wide “V” at the top. It adds a lot of interest. I, too, had a hard time coming up with ideas and, like you, peeked at the other entries for inspiration. As you stated, not hard to draw but difficult to use as a monotangle. Thanks for all you do to keep tangling interesting and every changing.
You did a good job with this. The first thing that comes to mind is a gentlemans suite. The v being part of the neck line.
I like your Dex! It reminds me of a building with a zoom on a window 🙂
Like the folded effect that you achieved. Using different sizes also added to the piece.
I could have written exactly the same as Ronnie, so her comment is mine too.
I think you did a great job with this monotangle. I agree that it was difficult to come up with something to make it more interesting. I think you did just that! Nice!