How to draw FORGE

Happy Friday, y’all!

We’ve arrived at the weekend and the first day of Fall (this Sunday) in our hemisphere. Our South Hemisphere tangling friends will no doubt be enjoying their first day of Spring and looking forward to warmer days ahead.

Rhode Island CZT Bonnie Luther shares her sweet Forge tangle with us today. In this tile Bonnie features Forge as a ribbon-style tangle together with some Zentangle®-originals including Shattuck, Molygon and Pokeroot.

This is Bonnie’s second tangle on the site; Iriemon, her first, was a little “something that came to me while vacationing in Jamaica“. It seems that relaxation brings out the tangle in Bonnie as she explains:

“I was at a cookout at a friends house this summer. While sitting there relaxing, I noticed the wrought iron gate she had at her garden entrance. And what a neat tangle that pattern would make! In trying to come up with a name, I started looking at other wrought iron patterns. What fun! There are some really great patterns to explore.

Forge is great as a border or ribbon, in a circle, or as a tangle in an area of the tile.“

We have several wrought iron-inspired tangles on the site — you can locate them by typing the term “wrought iron” in the handy dandy search box at the top right of any page as shown in this screen capture, then pressing “Enter”.

In this Zentangle tile Bonnie has used Forge in a free-form style with ‘Dillo, Shard and Verve.

Bonnie illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Forge below and she features it in another Zentangle tile with some familiar Zentangle-original tangles.

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