Thursday, June 23, 2016

Black, white and red


Black, white and red all over is the challenge that the Diva issued this week. When I sat down to do this last night I really had no idea of what I wanted to to do so I really just let it flow. I started with a continuous line string. (See below). In this type of string you can alternate colors or patterns easily - just like a checkerboard. It simply requires that you pay attention and go from one section to the next and not skip around. Striping is the tangle pattern that came to mind first so I went with it. I alternated red penwork and black penwork. Shading was either a pencil on the black sections or red colored pencils on the red sections. At the end I felt I had a lot of red so I colored the background in with black.

Picture taken late at night with poor lighting!

A continuous line string is where you put the pencil down and start drawing and don't pick it up until you reconnect it to your starting point. Here it is entirely self-contained within the tile. I used the one on the left for the tile above. I decided not to use the one on the right because there were too many small sections to work with. I've also done continuous line strings that go off the tile. I'll have to do a demo on that later.

9 comments:

  1. That's fantastic! I haven't done a continuous line string in ages. I love that Striping;-)

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  2. I find this kind of strings very difficult to fill.
    You did it perfect: nice tile, nice contrasts, nice shining!

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  3. So fun, I love the continuous string and beautiful billowing design!

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  4. Thanks for sharing your drawing process. I get put off by strings that have lots of little spaces. Will have to give your technique a try.

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  5. this is just wonderful! I love the shading...wow! and what a great idea...continuous line string. Now I know what I'll be doing next :)

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  6. Amazing! I love your shading!

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  7. So gorgeous, Sue. I love the way you shaded the edges. I am a "jumper" so something like this would be very difficult LOL!

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  8. It's a great tile enhanced by the black background!

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