New tangler Karl Stewart was looking at a photo of the girders and beams on the roof of a sports complex and recognized a cool repetitive pattern he has deconstructed and named Girdy. This is Karl’s first tangle pattern on the site.
Girdy “is unique, consists of three different lines repeated, it can be drawn in any orientation, and is abstract.” The very essence of real tangle patterns. Invited to introduce himself, Karl writes:
“I have been a dabbling artist my whole life. Starting with wood carving then water colors. I dropped out of college in 1973 to open an art gallery, and represented over 30 artists at one point. But the first fuel crisis and subsequent economic crunch put a quick end to that.
I was recently sharing some of my digital art with a friend when she sent me a link to a Zentangle® article. I tried it and have been hooked ever since. I find the entire process very relaxing and the fear of the blank paper that used to hit me when painting simply isn’t there with tangles.
Now I am experimenting with Zentangle Inspired Art and don’t see any end to the fun.”
Girdy is simple and fun to draw and can be adapted to just about any shape section you want to fit it into. As usual I can’t resist adding some shading but even without it Girdy has an interesting 3D look to it.
Karl illustrates the steps for drawing his tangle Girdy, here.
Update: Karl’s server is having issues (and I can relate to that) – he very kindly sent along the images he used so you can get the instructions here.
And here is the finished tangle …
Check out the tag karls for more of Karl’s patterns on TanglePatterns.com.
Wow. Of course, being also of the male persuasion, I really like the strong structure in this pattern. I will be trying this when I get off work. Thanks!
y love it very nice thanks
Wonderful, I thought when I first saw it that it was going to be hard, but it wasn’t. Glad to see there are men who like tangling also.
Can’t get the instructions to work…
I really like this pattern, but the link to how to draw isn’t working.
Linda, for some reason when I click on this link, it is sending me to some web hosting site. So I can’t get the instructions to this pattern.
The link took me to a spam site.
I am unable to get a successful link to the Girdy directions. I keep getting sent to a web hosting site. Wahhh! I would love to try this tangle.
Oops – seems Karl’s site has crashed so the instructions aren’t available at the moment. Apologies while we get this sorted out … will let you know when it’s available again.
This does look cool! I’m checking “notify me of follow-up comments” so I don’t forget to come back and get this one!
Hi all, I look forward to the emails and as the others were saying the link seems to be down
. However I just wanted to bid all a hello, and although it’s quite new to me, say thank you for all the great tangles I’ve come across. Wow what a bunch of talent and fun. Have good one all, ttyl.
Doris
Karl’s server is/was having issues and he sends his apologies along with the instructions which I’ve posted here on TanglePatterns.
Thanks for your patience everyone! Now you can enjoy Girdy.
wonderfull tangle!!! i love it