Monday greetings my tangling friends!
Health update: both eyes are done and I’m healing nicely, many thanks for your wishes. What an amazing difference!! I still have a bit of swelling but that should clear up in a few days and I’ll be better than new and ready to tangle (and read my email!) …
Today’s Turkital tangle is from North Carolina novelist and tangler Jenna Black who now has over ten tangles on the site, be sure to check them out.
Jenna writes,
This tangle is inspired by the turkey tail mushroom, which I’ve been trying to capture in a pattern for a long time because they’re just so pretty. I’m rather obsessed with it right now, and have drawn many versions.
Turkey tail mushrooms, we learn from Wikipedia, are known as Trametes versicolor:
Trametes versicolor – also known as Coriolus versicolor and Polyporus versicolor – is a common polypore mushroom found throughout the world.
Meaning ‘of several colors’, versicolor reliably describes this fungus that displays different colors. For example, because its shape and multiple colors are similar to those of a wild turkey, T. versicolor is commonly called turkey tail.
Jenna shares her gorgeous bookmark featuring a colorful family of Turkital.
I think it’s equally fun in color and black and white, and I particularly love how it came out using the mix of brown and black Microns (see below).
You can add as many auras as you like, the more uneven the better.
The optional step 5 is a little hard to illustrate at the tiny scale, but adds some dimension and shading opportunities when drawn on a larger tile at a larger scale.
Hope you have fun with it!
Turkital makes for very absorbing tangling as your intuition guides you as to what to add next and how to arrange them, it’s a fun one all right.
Jenna illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Turkital below where she includes the tile she mentioned above created with the Brown and Black Microns.
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This is a great tangle…can’t wait to try it out!!!
Thanks! Enjoy it!
Jenna, I have always been a fan of your unique and very fun to draw patterns. This looks great! Can’t wait to give it a try. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much! Can’t wait to see what you do with it!
Looks like fun! It reminds me a bit of the series of agates I did with a LOT of auras.
Glad to hear you’re healing well Linda!
I remember that series! It inspired me to do some fabric designs using that technique. Loved it!
Jenna, This is a beautiful, fun and unique tangle, thank you for sharing, I hope to try to do it soon!
Thank you! Enjoy it!
Wow, I love this so much! I’m indisposed at the moment (in bed!) but tomorrow morning, I’m on that bad boy! It really is gorgeous, Jenna. I live in the Appalachian Mountains of SW Virginia and we,too, see lots of these. I’m so glad you deconstructed it!
Thanks so much. Hope you feel better soon, and that you have fun playing with Turkital!
Thanks, Jenna. I’m sure I’ll feel better soon…but WHEN will I feel better!?
Thanks for your kind words.
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Thanks for sharing, It makes me think of all the wild turkeys we see here too. Be a fun one to play with.
Have fun with it!
Thank you Jenna! I absolutely loved working with this pattern. Shaky lines are perfect for my shaky hands so this is an instant favorite! Love the colored bookmarks too! Thank you Linda for all your hard work!
Yay! Glad you like it!
Thank you, Jenna. This is a fun one!
You’re welcome! Enjoy it!
This is beautiful. At first I thought it was a sliced agate. But, a mushroom. Thank you
Such a great tangle! Gorgeous!!
I am a new tangler and really love what you have shared. This mushroom is beautiful and I am enjoying learning how to tangle it. I have too much perfectionism inside my head and this is a gentle tangle that I can practice letting some of that go. I appreciate your photo, information, art and step out. Thank you.