How to draw STERON
Here’s the last one in July for your creative tangling pleasure!
Steron, a cool ribbon-style tangle from Texas CZT Shelley Cox, shares DNA with the Zentangle®-original Huggins and also Cadent.
All three use the Zentangle “take-off-and-land” technique that’s always fun to do and it’s fascinating how many different tangles can result.
Steron is Shelley’s first tangle on the site, here she features it in a lovely tile as a ribbon or frame together with a “radial” or sunburst version which to a degree shares DNA with CZT Jana Rogers/Pharmer’s Stella.
Shelley shares a little about her background and her tangle,
I live in a little town, Watauga, by a big city; Fort Worth. I’m a transplant starting from Detroit, Michigan by way of Southern California, via Nashville, Tennessee to Fort Worth. I’m married with his, hers and ours sons (5 of them!)
I’ve been playing with colors, paper and design since I was a kid; I started in College as a Commercial Artist, then working with design and advertising. After life got in the way, I became an Accountant, and stopped drawing. Several years ago, I started back with pencil and paper and discovered Zentangle!
My father became terminally ill and one of the ways for me to cope was doing tangles; keeping supplies with me at the hospital and at appointments. My father wanted me to get back to my art and I wanted to honor him. After he passed, I wanted to learn more about Zentangle; I brought my mother to Rhode Island and we took the CZT class # 21 and we both became CZTs!
I’m still an Accountant, but have weekly Tangle classes – and yes, the tangling has me doing more art again!
I’m always working with lines and I was trying to do one thing and that one thing led to another and I created Steron.
It’s easy to do – remember to start with 3 small orbs and to take off and land; but you can replace the orbs with dots or add a little tear drop at the end. The result allows for all sorts of designs.
At first glance I didn’t recognize the logic of how to lay out the orbs for Steron (Step 3) but I soon found when I visualized turning the shape of Step 2 “upside down” or mirrored so that Step 4 is the result, then placing the next set of three orbs beside it becomes easy. You kind of “grow” the ribbon as you move along, mirroring the previous shape each time. And of course there are many ways to embellish the shapes to create variations. Shading gives this tangle its dimension and emphasizes the woven appearance.
Shelley illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Steron below and features it in a monotangle creating an embellished letter with her last name’s initial, “C”.
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Shelley’s radial-style version of Steron differs in that the “V” or “U” shapes do not alternate their up-and-down orientation as they do in the ribbon-style version so the result is quite different as shown in Shelley’s Zendala tile.
Another example using a variety of orbs aka Tipple to embellish Steron for a rhinestone-filled effect:
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July 31, 2019 | More like this: free-form - radial - ribbon - shelleyc - 14 comments to How to draw STERON Cathy Drolet This is beautiful! Thank you for sharing.I really like this Shelley. Thank you for sharing it with us. I love these organic type tangles. Looks like a very fun one.
I like this new tangle very much, thank you for sharing. Jody GenoveseThis looks like a fun pattern Shelley. Adding to my must try list! The star version reminds me of Stella, which is a favorite so I know I will like that for sure. Thank you for sharing.
Sharon JerkovicShelley & Linda, This is one amazing tangle. And such simple “roots” ! Cadent & Huggins…Absolutely love this one.. Thank you Shelley for your creation and to Linda for all the work you do to gather everyone’s tangles and post… 🙂
What fun, have to stop everything I’m doing and play with this one!! Dessie ArnoldOOH, I love Huggins and Cadent, so I know I’ll love this one! I love it that Shelley and her mom became CZTs at the same time, and for Shelley, it was honoring her father! All that waiting room time with tangling formed a bond, I’m sure.
Joyce BrunsShelley, this is a beautiful tangle. Thanks for sharing it. And thank you, Linda, for posting it for us to learn how to draw it.
nancy pearsonShelley I love love love this! Your versions are each so intriguing. Thank you for sharing I am definitely going to use this today. Cadent is my most favorite tangle so anything related to it works for me!
P Tanzy Maxfield Thank you. I was immediately intrigued ! Got me started again. Thank you Denise Potter Well this looks like a lot of potential fun! Both styles are lovely and I can’t wait to try them. Very very cool tangle! Thank you! Shelley CoxThank you, all, for your replies! This group had really encouraged me to continue, and again, Linda, for all you do! Shelley
Deb Hendricks Will have to try this tangle. It is lovely, has a lot of options Leave a Reply Cancel replyTanglePatterns is free but it relies on the financial support of its readers to remain online. If you find value in this unique Zentangle® resource, please consider supporting my work with a contribution to help keep TanglePatterns going. Your support truly matters and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your help. xx
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