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By Linda Farmer, CZT ~ September 3rd, 2021
Greetings y’all, dee-lighted to have your company again.
Today’s Y-Knot tangle is from Korean CZT HyunJu Park and it’s her first on the site.
In the mists of time Maria’s daughter Molly had come up with a pattern she named Y-Knot that ultimately was never released. If I recall correctly it was deemed too complex to be as zenful as tangles in the Zentangle Method™. It didn’t meet the Zentangle® requirement of being “easy to teach and offer a high degree of success to tanglers of all ages.”
On the contrary, HyunJu’s Y-Knot is surprisingly easy to do and not only makes an effective pattern on its own, it can also be filled with whatever embellishments you desire as HyunJu illustrates in the tiles included on her steps image.
Here she introduces herself and explains the inspiration for her tangle:
My name is HyunJu Park and I live in Suwon, South Korea.
I have been enjoying decorative art as a hobby for a long time. In 2015, while looking for a pattern I wanted to draw on a plate, I discovered Zentangle. And I fell in love with Zentangle.
I went to Providence, USA in 2017 and became a CZT because I wanted to help people in need of comfort and rest. Meeting so many people and teaching Zentangle has changed my life to be comfortable, generous, lively, creative and happy.
Due to the recent COVID-19 outbreak, I have had more free time.
While looking around the patterns I had collected a long time ago, my eyes caught on to a piece of op art, and I was inspired by that work. When I tangled it, it looked like a ribbon from a gift box.
It was named Y-Knot because Y in the triangle seems to have made a knot.
This is Omar Rayo’s Kumo XV op art piece that inspired Y-Knot. This is my Zendala tile.
Wikipedia tells us,
Omar Rayo Reyes (January 20, 1928 – June 7, 2010) was a renowned Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. He won the 1970 Salón de Artistas Colombianos.
Rayo worked with abstract geometry primarily employing black, white, red and yellow. He was part of the Op Art movement.
Rayo’s work shows that geometric art is as much a part of the past as it is of the future. He used traces of the past to discover new ways to present visual and geometric sketches.
On January 20, 2012, Google celebrated Rayo’s 84th birthday with a Google Doodle:
HyunJu illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Y-Knot below and she includes three gorgeous tiles featuring her tangle. She offers these tips:
“When deconstructing the pattern, we start with a grid base. When drawing Y inside a triangle, the point is to draw it parallel to one side of the triangle (Steps 3-5). By changing the grid or starting position or mirroring, you can make various meta-patterns.“
Image copyright the artist and used with permission, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. These images are for your personal offline reference only. Please feel free to refer to the images to recreate this tangle in your personal Zentangles and ZIAs. However the artist and TanglePatterns.com reserve all rights to the images and they must not be publicly pinned, altered, reproduced or republished. Thank you for respecting these rights. For more information, click on the image for a discussion entitled “Artists for Respect” by several prominent artists. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” ~ C.S. Lewis
In this set of Bijou tiles HyunJu demonstrates Y-Knot in it’s original state together with more ways of exploring Y-Knot by emphasizing different combinations of fills.
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15 comments to How to draw Y-KNOT
Chrissie Frampton
September 3, 2021 at 12:31 pm · Reply
This looks a fascinating tangle.
Ria Matheussen
September 3, 2021 at 2:01 pm · Reply
beautiful tangle and beautiful work, thanks for sharing!
LLS
September 3, 2021 at 2:37 pm · Reply
Thank you so very much for sharing this very versatile tangle. It can stand alone, work with friends, be an eye catching centerpiece, or be a reticulum for fragments to inhabit! Amazingly Beautiful!!! The Bijou examples helped me to see so many other meta-patterns that I wouldn’t have quickly seen on my own! Thank You again!
Brenda DeBock
September 3, 2021 at 2:55 pm · Reply
What a fun looking tangle. Can’t wait to try it. The way it all comes together is intriguing to my brain. ??
Debra MCPHEE
September 3, 2021 at 6:40 pm · Reply
Lovely careful elegant drawing. Thank you for sharing your sophisticated tangle.
Robin Panza
September 3, 2021 at 8:24 pm · Reply
Oh, how lovely! I think I will have a lot of fun playing with this. Thank you.
Jan Brandt, CZT 12
September 4, 2021 at 2:01 am · Reply
Fabulous tangle!! Your stepouts are easy to follow and your sample tiles are exquisite!!! Thank you very much for your gift of a lovely new tangle to play with. ???
Bonnie Johnson
September 5, 2021 at 5:36 pm · Reply
This is a beautiful tangle, with so many wonderful possibilities for embellishment! Can’t wait to work with it! Many thanks for sharing your unique gift!
Jody Genovese
September 5, 2021 at 7:09 pm · Reply
Very clever! Love all of your examples. I will try this for sure. Thank you for sharing.
nancy pearson
September 6, 2021 at 12:09 am · Reply
HyunJu I love your Y-Knot! Looking forward to trying this out. Thank you for sharing your talent.
Thank you Linda for making all of this possible. We appreciate you and all your hard work in maintaining your website.
Linda Farmer, CZT
September 6, 2021 at 11:00 am · Reply
Thanks so much Nancy, appreciate your kind words 🙂 and I appreciate you too!
Ginny Sones
September 6, 2021 at 12:01 pm · Reply
Thank you for your intriguing tangle. I can’t wait to try it. Lovely tiles.
veronica vazquez
September 6, 2021 at 4:49 pm · Reply
lovely
Birsen Canan
September 23, 2023 at 12:26 am · Reply
I just fall in love with this pattern and the example works done Huyun Ju Park. Thanks for sharing. They are very inspiring.
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