I’ve been keeping up with the commitment I made to myself to participate in the weekly ‘It’s A String Thing’ challenge organized by Adele Bruno on her site Tickled To Tangle. However, I haven’t been sharing all my completed pieces here or on my Instagram page.
So, I thought I’d do a bit of housekeeping today Continue reading
It’s Pi Day!
For that reason, Adele Bruno designed last week’s ‘It’s a String Thing’ challenge to pay homage to the number 3.14…
To start us off, Adele gave us a string (guideline) shaped like Pi (π) in which to draw the 3 numerically themed patterns: O3, 1+1 & 4Fun.
I’ve been doing my best to keep up with the weekly ‘It’s a String Thing’ challenge. Last week was the 278th challenge organized by Adele Bruno. The pattern she chose for us to work with was Ratoon, which was also to be used as the string (the guidelines) for working on the tile. Ratoon is a new to me pattern that was tricky for me to learn to draw – as patterns with loops and curves often are for me.
Difficulties aside, as soon as I saw it, I knew I was going to use colour in whatever it led me to create. I decided to work on a larger tan tile (4” x 4” or 10 cm x 10 cm), which presented so many options for colour combinations. This challenge also presented an opportunity to use fine line coloured pens and coloured pencils I hadn’t used in ages. I settled on a deep shade of red for the main pattern and added more shapes with a colour that reminded me of butterscotch.
I’m happy with the results; considering that Ratoon pushed me out of my comfort zone and I had to put quite a bit of thought into which other patterns to pair with it.
For anyone not familiar with Ratoon, it’s the pattern drawn with the red pen toward the center of the tile. The lines and dots in the center circle of my completed tile are not part of the basic pattern.
To see my completed tile for challenge 277 click here.
My Small Surrenders 