[Pen strokes...]
Maria: Hi boys and girls (Male laughter)
Here we are in Zentangle Land
and we are unveiling our
instructions for doing Auraknot.
This is a tangle that we posted on our website,
on our newsletter, I'm sorry.
we invited everybody as a challenge to see if they could figure out how it was done.
What we came up with was a way of doing any number of
pointed star in a very easy way.
So, the first step is to do
a series of points in any order
or any way, as long as they connected at the end.
The next step
is we're going to start joining the edges and in this particular
variation, we're going to just
skip one point so we're going to take this
and we're gonna join it here for this one and skip that one.
Then we're going to aura
this line ....and go to there.
so we're going to turn the tile clockwise
and go to the next one and we're going to join it to here
and then aura.. down to here.
Turn the tile clockwise.
this is your point at the top point. Join it
Aura.
Turn.
Join it. and it doesn't even matter if you join it in kind of a curvy line
it sort of makes for a really interesting star.
Join here
to here
So there is our beginning of our auraknot
Rick: and that's so beautiful, even by itself, and you can see the whole hollibaugh effect.
because the clues that we had were aura and hollibaugh.
Maria: Okay, so what we are going to look for now:
There is only one line on here
that's one continuous line and that's where we can always go back to
so this line right here it was the first one we put down
You may even want to mark it a little bit,
so you know where you are going to begin each time.
We're going to, in our usual way, we are going to aura
that line again. Turn it clockwise.
Aura the next line.
Turn it.
Rick: The beauty of this is that works with even-numbered,
or odd numbered. Triangles.
Maria: Yup, any number.
Rick: Any number works.
So at first, Maria came up with this idea
and all she had when she was starting was a piece of newspaper
and a pen and you should of seen it, it was
totally covered with this brilliant, brilliant idea and it was so much fun
and you see in the newsletter the whole table was was covered with explorations
of this.
and at first we did a
3 pointed one and then tried a 4 pointed one
and then you can do
any shape and it's it really, really
simple and very, very exciting.
So it was so cool that we decided well let's just put it out there
and let let people play with it because it's very difficult to figure it out.
Maria: So, now we've done this aura
on each one of these points and and pretty much filled the point
if you want to continue, you can. It's not necessary, but you can
If I just keep going around...
there you go: Auraknot.
So, we'll show you again with a different number of points
and then we will show you some tanglelations.
Do you want to try one, Rick?
Rick: Sure.
So, when we first started
we did 3 and
the beauty of this is that
it doesn't have to be perfectly symmetrical or anything
because then you just take it
come around and even if it's not this
perfect curve, it all ends up working really,
really well.
So now it goes: aura ... hollibaugh.
hollibaugh is one of our tangles
and it's done by drawing behind. That's why we're saying
the Hollibaugh technique
and aura is to
echo a line right next to it. So. that's what we're doing here
and that's the basic shape.
So, as Maria said you find that
one that is continuous and then go back to that one
and just
just keep iterating ...over and over again
and it has this
very you know, a lot of people
commented on how it had a Celtic knot feel
and you can accomplish that without
having to figure out how it's done.
You don't have to put the dots down and do all the planning ahead of time.
And you can imagine
you know we'll come back to these later and do some shading but you can imagine
how much fun
this will be to shade.
So there's another version, and we could continue in
in this or some the other things we've done is put tipple in those spaces.
Maria: Okay so now we're gonna get a little creative.
we're going to start again with any number
points on your star that you want and they don't have to be on the same.
They can be
kind of ragged, doesn't matter. Okay.
we have 1..2..3..4..5..6..7. 7 pointed star.
So now when we did it the first time, we joined this..
to this right here, just going to the next
get skipping one point. This time we're gonna skip
two points. We're going to take this line and join it
to this one, with our aura. So this is our first stroke.
then went to take this one,
skip two points and join it here.
skip two points
you can see that even throwing in a little bit of a curve there for character
really adds to it.
Rick: and again it doesn't matter, 7 or 8
or 6. Even or odd. It all works the same.
The same method works for any number of facets or points.
Maria: Okay, so we have our basic star again.
It's just going to end up looking a little different because it
joined a little differently. So now we go back to our
first stroke down and again, we are going to do the aura
turn it to the right, clockwise.
and then following that curvy line, it's so pretty
This just makes itself
Rick: it does.
I made that a little bit different there
but I think it's going to be okay.
Rick: It's also very forgiving.
Maria: I think that's pretty cool. We could add some
other patterns inside. I think that one looks great just the way it is.
another way we can do this
it'll start with the basic shape just like that
first one
and even though this looks a little funky
and for gonna work out he can still disco here
same principle applies we don't have to
kept that those initial elements
aren't perfect hit it really his
very very forgiving you can
you can make them whatever perfect mean but you can make the release electrical
and not but
point is if you don't make them through Africa Tulsa OK
sheesh
so what you can do now
is make another
that shapes
okay and we're going to do the same thing
connected and then well-connected
and or at and so
what will and up where sheesh is
are to
for the that will weave together
so now I'm going to go back to the first one
Anne and again this will work with any number of points we just had to step 3
m3 cuz it
Anna curved and straight because it easy to follow but you can do this at
any numbers shapes and we'll just
again or anything can in principle
hola by we never cross a line
always go behind so just by
or game and never crossing a line
these will weave together it was sorta going fast here seeking get get the idea
but we
really encourage you to get this and clay with that
so now will go back to that original one can see it's the one that goes and
and and now will
or a and holla by the straight edge to
1 and you can see
how their all interweaving
together sheesh
without planning without weaving
so instead taking the time here to finish it this is
this is what happens when you
keep doing it back and forth and back and forth and then you can shade it's a
C each one
works itself into the other and
they they interweave so that that's another I'm
application up or not show
Indian looking at what rate did there we could try it
again I'm gonna do it
instead it points see what happens here
on
okay so we're going to I'm gonna I'm gonna do the thing where I am skipping
to you on this just to kinda get used to seeing an
from
news for them
now Rick just introduced another triangle
but i wanna just introduced a ribbon
sorter weeping
around in
right now to so many days I can do in my sleep case and then go back
be to the original and start hitting them
for a and
unlike Rick I'm not going to
home go back
can't do it on the river and I'm just gonna do it on the original Star
and let the ribbon just
we've in between
nice
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you don't even have to worry about when you gonna finish could have just said it
finishes that are in town
in return
so it's kinda go
I love that one so I'm sure you watching this and you can like
como I can do this with that I can do that with that and and play with in so
many ways
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