Tripoli

Tripoli is one of my favorite tangles. There are many ways to begin this versatile tangle. It consists of three lines joined together to make a triangle. Once the first triangle is made, all you do is aura one of the lines that made up the triangle and complete a second triangle. you continue to aura one line of the triangle for the first leg of the next.. Simple, but the results can be stunning. This is a mono-tangle of Tripoli.

Once the triangles had been completed, I took each one and made aline from the center to each of the corner. basically turning each triangle into three triangles. To shade the tangle, I used a 4B pencil to shade the bottom triangle of each set of three. A 4B is a very dark and soft pencil, One side was shaded with a 5H pencil. A 5 H is one of the hardest pencils and makes a very light shade color.. The final side was stroked with a tortillon that had already been loaded with graphite. The result made the triangles look 3D. Some of them receding into the tile like indentations, and others bulging out of the tile.