How to draw KYTA

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Before we get to our tangle I want to send our well wishes to everyone in western Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands affected by the terrible, destructive flooding and praying that lives will get back to normal as soon as possible. The photos we’ve seen of this catastrophe are heart wrenching. Lots of prayers …

Today’s Kyta tangle is from UK CZT Lucy Farran who recently shared her Xoxo tangle with us.

BTW, don’t let my simple example fool ya, keep reading to see how Lucy adds pretty embellishments to enhance Kyta. I just felt like a dramatic tangle for today (but now my Sakura Metallic Gelly Roll pens are calling out to me) 🙂

Lucy writes,

I had been playing around with a tangle made of tessellating kite shapes for a while, but it wasn’t until I was recently drawing the tangle ‘Dreamcatcher’ for a class, that I understood how to draw the steps for the new tangle.

Kyta is like a straight line version of Dreamcatcher. In the tangle Dreamcatcher, the kite shapes occur naturally from the tangle being constructed in the round, in Kyta, the ‘V’ shapes need to be drawn at two different angles to create the kite shapes rather than diamonds. It is made entirely of one elemental stroke: straight lines.

The finished tangle offers many fill options. A basic fill is alternating black and white, however, I think it works best as a reticulum for square or triangle fragments, my favourite way of drawing it is as a ribbon filled with a fragment of choice.

When researching the word kite, I found that kite quadrilaterals are named for the wind-blown, flying kites, which often have this shape and which are in turn named for the Kite bird. The name ‘Kyta’ comes from the original Anglo-Saxon word for the Kite bird ‘Cyta’.

Lucy illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Kyta below where she demonstrates different ways of varying and embellishing her tangle and features it in three cool tiles. “The other tangles and fragment fills included on the examples are: on the black tile, Xircus, Flux and Crazy ‘Nzeppel. On the tan tile, fragment K4 from the Primer and Tipple. On the grey tile, fragments D1 and a G1 variation from the Primer.”

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