How to draw FLUXU8

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August is winding down, Pumpkin Spice is already in the lattes and this year Labor Day weekend is as early as it can get. The year marches on.

Today NY CZT Jody Genovese is back with us sharing her fun, floral-ish FluxU8 for us to explore. Jody has almost three dozen tangles on the site now, be sure to check them out!

Jody writes,

I’m calling this one FluxU8 as it is based on the pattern Flux in an alternating U and 8 shape.

I’ve included 2 options for drawing it, but both are based off the same beginning dot structure.

This is another that I was playing around with in my journal and came up with the name before I landed on the stepout. This is a shape I practice a lot because I never have quite felt like I have it mastered. Sometimes I get it and sometimes I don’t. It fluctuates …

I enlisted the help of two of my Zentangle® friends. CZT Debbie Raaen of Norway who has an amazing ability to reinvent patterns and Christie King from Kansas who will be getting her CZT in November this year.

I knew I was close, but not quite there. They took a look and gave me some good suggestions, but I was overcomplicating things. Recently the first variation came into focus and is based on the U shape.

The second variation takes a little more thought and goes back and forth between creating the Flux on a U shape and then twisting it into the 8.

TIPS:
Place the initial dots at 12, 3, 6 and 9 o’clock and then the last 4 in between each space for a total of 8 dots Place a dot in the center as a guide. The dot becomes the inner embellishment of the flux UNLESS:

– You drew it too far out, then it can become either part of the Flux, or the decorative aura. Try to overlap the Flux as you draw them to avoid big gaps between them. If you end up with a big gap at the end just draw a Flux in between and don’t worry if you have more than 8 Flux petals. It would be like finding a 9 leaf clover!

Jody illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing FluxU8 below, “My zendala features the pattern Tissoooh! by Tomàs Padrós surrounded by the FluxU8 and some ‘Nzeppel.” A very beautiful Zendala.

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