Paradox is a fun three dimensional tangle pattern to do and it can be a real mind bender. The key to this one appears to be the ability to remember to turn your tile! Variants include all the options of shading and solid colors as well as filling various shapes with it.
Paradox is an original Zentangle® pattern designed by Maria Thomas, Rick writes “We named this tangle “Paradox” because it consists only of straight lines which create beautiful spirals.” The link to Maria’s illustrated instructions for this pattern is here.
Paradox examples are shown in another issue of the Zentangle® newsletter: here. Scroll down past the instructions for Opus.
And more “fun with Paradox” examples are shown in this issue.
UPDATE: 8/25/2011 – CZT® Margaret Bremner posted an excellent tutorial, “Paradox and then some”, here.
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Wow, this is so much fun on the sewing machine.
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Beautiful!
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I just saw a version of Paradox on a bottle of Pantene Color Conditioner! You can imagine how delighted I was!
This is also one of my favorites to play with!
I’m also a papercrafter, and this immediately reminded me of iris folding!