Here’s a very cool grid-based tangle pattern from Karry Heun who recently shared Sand Swirl with us.
Can you figure out how Palrevo came by its name? It wasn’t until I sat down to draw it that the penny dropped for me.
If you’ve been here with me for a while you’ll remember that grid-based tangles are my favorites and Palrevo is so interesting to do. I found balancing light and dark while filling in the random L-shapes quite an intriguing process. When you come to that step where you fill in those L-shapes or thicken some of your earlier strokes, you can also straighten up any wobbly strokes (who, me??) so it’s a pretty forgiving tangle. Shading adds great dimension.
Bonus: if you draw Palrevo on a very small scale it makes an interesting minimalist tangle when you stop after adding the alternating small squares in the corners. Although you don’t have much Palrevo. (Clue!)
Here are Karry’s step-by-step instructions for drawing Palrevo. Steps 2 and 3 are combined into one in the illustration but I think you get the idea.
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And here is Karry’s whimsical Zentangle®-inspired piece adding color and featuring Palrevo and the official tangles BB and Mooka.
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January 4, 2013 | 
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Wow!! Its such a beauty! very interesting.
Love this! My new favourite tangle, and yes so effective and forgiving of those wonky lines. 🙂
Thank you for sharing
I love how dimensional this is. Thanks!
This is really cool! Thanks for sharing the idea.
I love the layered look it has, which makes it kind of different from most grid patterns. Think I’ll try it right now!
Oh i love the way this one looks!! I must try it tonight! 🙂
Am I the only one who doesn’t “get” where the name comes from?
So as not to to spoil the fun, I’ve sent you a separate email.
no, i don’t get it either. But I sure want to. Is it in the pronunciation? Earlier
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Pen on paper as soon as I tell you Thank You for sharing this great tangle…. love the illusion of depth…
This is a great tangle! I love the dimensional look and the pink and black finished design. But I don’t get the name Palrevo or the clue. Maybe if I knew the pronunciation. Anyway, it really looks like fun!
Okay, another clue: not pronounciation, but spelling. (you’re gonna groan)
Wonderful tangle! I’ll be trying it out soon. (Great name too, by the way. I often don’t like the results when people try to do that, but it works here!)
I love this tangle. I teach Art (and Zentangle) to troubled youth as a self-calming tool. My students love the more complicated ones, but they seem to frustrate my students. This is a very complicated looking tangle that is very easy to make. They will love it! Thanks.
P.S. Linda – I’m with Jo and Kahna, you’ll have to email me, too, PLEASE!!
I LOVE this!! And the name clue…so easy =0)
Nice pattern….and instructions. I like the overlap in this Palrevo tangle….;)
Thanks Karry & Linda.
Umm… even though I’m a huge word person, I’m just not coming up with an explanation for the name. Can I get one of those private emails too?
I don’t get the name. When are you going to tell us???
TriciaLee already did 🙂
Oky Doky. Seems like my crumpled sketch isn’t flumoxing too many of you, but just incase, I posted another on my page. Thanks for all the nice compliments!
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OHHHHHHHHHH. whew. thank you.
This is very interesting pattern. I love the effects of shading as well.
Wow. This tangle rocks!!! I love the name, too. Thank you Karry, for my new favorite tangle, and Linda, for bringing it to our attention!
My pleasure! Glad everyone liked it so much.
Love this tangle…. and it took me forever to figure out the reason for the name (thanks to TriciaLee for giving her hint).
This looks so cool! Will have to try it out this new pattern. Seems like it could be used in filling, as well as in other areas of the Zentantangle drawing.
Oh, I am not sure on the pronouncing of the name, that’s ok too.
Love it! Thanks for sharing. I can’t wait to use it on my current project.
Ok, am I the only one who is clueless, even with the clues, about the name? I digress, love the tangle! Santa brought me the 2014 calendar, so I’ve been putting new tangles in it. Thanks for sharing!
*smacks forhead* OH! Just figured out the name while tangling this pattern today! Brilliant:)
The name of it is a semordnilap (google it) for all you who couldn’t figure it out like myself.
To tell you the truth, it never occurred to me to palindromize (?) PALREVO, though I do love word play like that. I “got” ARUKAS right away though!
I just fell in love with this tangle when I saw it on a Pinterest post and was sooo excited when I saw it here!!! The explanation is so simple. Thank you for sharing. And about the name… sooo easy to guess where it comes from but I won’t spoil the fun either!!
I’ve just discovered this tangle and it’s awesome. At first I thought the name stood for “P and L reversed” with a “o” meaning repeat…i needed to see it spelled out to get the real meaning . My version does help me with where to place the little squares!