Happy Friday! Yay, it’s the weekend!
After our rather detailed triangle grid-based tangles earlier this week, I thought we’d go for a less detailed ribbon-style one today.
Coco is from Taiwan CZT Hsin-Ya Hsu and I rediscovered it while browsing through my as-yet-unpublished archives.
Coco is Hsin-Ya’s eighth tangle on the site and it was inspired by this bracelet.
As Hsin-Ya notes Coco is “a bit like Linked” but where Linked is flat Coco is a little more 3D and more intricate looking. Here’s her inventive trompe-l’oeil tile featuring Coco with a few Zentangle®-original tangles. I love the rice-shape border on the Coco “tile”, simple but very effective.
I found Coco a little bit challenging to get the shape of the “links” consistent, but once you get going it all falls into place. With a little imagination it does seem to be composed of C’s and O’s. Although it’s not necessary, a touch of shading helps emphasize the “over-under” aspects of the links.
Hsin-Ya illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Coco below where she features it in a pretty tile with the Zentangle-originals Pokeleaf and Pokeroot.
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September 7, 2018 | 
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Coco is truly magical !! I LOVE the trompe-l’oeil effect on her tile…Thx to Taiwan CZT Hsin-Ya Hsu and to Linda! ???
This is lovely, thank you Hsin-Ya. Although it is not shown in your step-out, I found that leaving the ends of the top and bottom ‘links’ open means that you can complete the loop as shown in the middle of your pretty, delicate tile.
I love how this pattern looks, but am having a great deal of trouble doing it…to the point of frustration. I think there needs to be another step between step 2and 3. The leap is to far and not clear..HELP!
There isn’t a step missing but be sure pay attention to the direction the arrows show to add the strokes, especially in Step 3.
It might help to print out the steps and trace them with pencil a few times to get a feel for how they connect.
Hope that helps!
Thank you Hsin-Ya for this lovely tangle. The Coco tangle looks very pretty when used with other tangles like it is shown in the illustration. Matches perfectly.