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

I'm

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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here's one that leaves three did very where is that

we didn't put on the website on take for this one really didn't play

starting one and then putting others nesting others

into it so anyway you guys have fun with or not

or not when I I

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so thanks to everybody fine system by