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Our sweet botanical tangle, Bosch, is from Utah tangler Heidi Sue Whitney. It’s her fifth on the site, most recently we explored her Rain Gauge.
For those of us who are Harry Bosch fans, Heidi Sue’s Bosch is from the archives and predates the novelist Michael Connelly’s TV wonderful series of the same name starring Titus Welliver. Heidi’s tangle does not, however, predate Connelly’s excellent novels whose main character, detective Harry Bosch, is named after the artist Hieronymous Bosch.
On her blog Heidi explains how she came up with her tangle,
Recently, while surfing the web, I came across a VERY cool interactive website, featuring Bosch art. If you didn’t already know this, Hieronymous Bosch had a very strange, oddball style. Extremely detailed, funky, quirky, strange, odd.
I call it Bosch, because my inspiration was a detail from Hieronymous Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights.
Well, in exploring this painting on that website, I came across this exquisite little detail:
Those disc shaped leaves caught me right up, and I grabbed my sketchbook.
On her blog Heidi shares a link to the interactive website she mentions, be sure to check it out!
Heidi illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Bosch here on her blog and also below for your convenience. As she notes in her post, “It works better to start with the circles before adding the stems, and weighting the lines is important. I think it would make a really good filler.” Rounding does certainly add the finishing touch.
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September 20, 2023 | 
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Heidi,
I really like this tangle. It does speak to me. Thank you so much.
Well THAT’S a fun one!! I’m always looking for new botanical tangles, the more “odd” the better! Thanks for the easy deconstruction, Heidi. 🙂
Lovely botanical tangle, easy to combine with other ones and that is always pleasant, thanks for sharing Heidi!
I love this!
Great Tangle and background story!
Thank you Linda for featuring my tangle! It was a few years ago that I developed it and I can’t believe I didn’t see this before today…a week or more later! But I came looking for a dim memory, even before I sent Bosch for your consideration…and here it is!
Glad y’all are enjoying it
Memory of a tangle, that is lol
I’m so excited to learn Bosch, as I’m growing a succulent that looks exactly like the one in the painting! It is Xerosicyos danguyi (https://shop.cacti.com/landscape-succulents/xerosicyos-danguyi/), and here in coastal southern California it is grown outdoors in part shade to full sun. Thrives on neglect. Thanks for sharing this tangle!