How to draw HEARTSWELL

Recently I was looking through the heart tangles on the site for this tangle by Australian artist Helen Williams. Heartswell is linked as an “inside out” variation of Helen’s Heartstrings. In checking it out it seemed time to give it a page of its own, so here we are.

Helen published Heartswell almost three years after Heartstrings and she shares how it came about,

“I found a piece of paper where I had experimented with the tangle pattern Swells by Jennifer Hohensteiner – it started me thinking about how the aura-ing technique would work with the Heartstrings framework to create a kind of inside out version of it.”

Heartswell is basically hearts-on-a-string with added auras, such a simple concept and so pretty.

Helen illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Heartswell here on her blog. Helen includes a list of tips for tangling Heartswell together with several fun ways to vary this tangle. Her version without the string is also very appealing (the 6th box in her steps).

As you enjoy any of the tangles on the site, please do leave a comment of thanks and encouragement to show the artists you appreciate them for sharing their creativity to inspire yours.

Check out the tag helenw for more of Helen’s tangles on TanglePatterns.com.

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