Practice page in my sketchbook. I worked on these three tangles for the Day 10 assignment in the "One Zentangle a Day" book. I really enjoyed practicing these tangles and especially like the variation of flukes that I drew.

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I think that Onamato has some very cool potential to look like jewelry. If you leave off the bands on the edges, you've got "Pearlz". But those tiny black circles look like jewels too - I guess it's all in the shading. Think "smiley-face mouth" for shading the pearls and give a dark pearl a little highlight on top.

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'N' CLAMS, too! (I love seafood!) You're probably familiar with the tangle 'Nzeppel. Cockles 'n' Mussels begins with a random version of 'Nzeppel and moves on from there. First, a few photos. COCKLE SHELLS © Oliver Dixon. Licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons license. MUSSEL SHELLS CLAM SHELLS (photo from royalty free images at visualphotos.com) Okay, here's the tangle Cockles 'n' Mussels! In some cases you may want to subdivide a section to make more appropriate shapes. You may also want to trim a corner or an edge for the same purpose. See a few places under Mussels and Clams above. The lines on mussels and clams need to curve at the ends; they're almost more a series of diminishing ovals rather than just lines. Sometimes you'll have a very tiny section; think of it as sand and leave it alone. :-) Here's a Zentangle tile with a few variations of Cockles 'n' Mussels, clams, and the random version of 'Nzeppel. Lower left and right of center: Cockles 'n' Mussels. Top left: cockles. Upper right: clams, lower right: mussels and clams. Through center: random 'Nzeppel. Here's a tile using Cockles 'n' Mussels among other tangles. Tangles: Cockles 'n' Mussels, Gingham, Lotus Pods, Ninja Stars, Rick's Paradox

Op deze pagina vind je diverse tangle-patronen. Op de site http://www.lineweaving.com/forums (Pattern List) of http://www.tanglepatterns.com vind je links naar de sites van de ontwerpers van deze patronen en hoe ze te tekenen. Sommige lijken moeilijk, maar dat is het echt niet! Probeer het ook eens of volg een workshop bij mij! Naast heel veel patronen vind je ook diverse uitdagingen op Lineweaving.com en leden kunnen hun tekening posten. Ook is er de mogelijkheid met de eigenaar van de site Cindy Angiel te chatten. Het is een erg actieve website. Wordt ook lid! ****** On this page you'll find lots of tangle-patterns. The sites Lineweaving.com/forums (Pattern List) or Tanglepatterns.com show the links to the designers pages on how to draw them. It looks like some patterns are very difficult to draw, but they are not. Try it out or come visit one of my workshops 'drawing tangles'! Besides lots of patterns there are several challenges you can join on Lineweaving.com. Members can post their drawing and share them with others. You can also have a chat with the owner of the site, Cindy Angiel. Come join! !!!!! IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH DRAWING OR SHADING A PATTERN, NO MATTER WHICH ONE, MAIL ME AT: [email protected] AND I WILL MAKE YOU A 'HOW-TO-VIDEO' AND POST IT ON MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL !!!!! I WOULD BE HAPPY TO HELP YOU OUT! TOF by Ellen Wolters My son got these slippers as a birthdaypresent yesterday, take a look at the sole of this slipper... A new pattern was born :-) I called the pattern TOF, 'cause the Dutch name for slipper is panTOFfel. In Dutch TOF also means cool, nice. SMIG DOTS and MIST by Ellen Wolters Very simple but a nice filler though :-) ROOBS by Ellen Wolters In een valentijnfolder zag ik een kussen staan, met daarop edelsteentjes geplakt. Ik zag er meteen een patroon in en heb het negetekend. Ik noem dit patroon Roobs ( van Ruby=robijn). Veel plezier ermee! In a Valentine flyer I saw a pillow with little stones on it.I immediately saw a pattern in it and draw it. I call this pattern Roobs (from Ruby). Have fun with it! ZAZZY by Sue Clark I've been playing with the new pattern by Sue Clark: Zazzy. You can find it here: Ik heb met het nieuwe patroon van Sue Clark gespeeld: Zazzy. Hier kun je het vinden: http://tangledinkart.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-tangle-zazzy.html Amsterdam by Ellen Wolters A famous Dutch folksong is called: Tulips from Amsterdam (another phrase in this song is: when spring arrives i'll send you tulips from Amsterdam, some red ones, some yellow ones...) I was playing with the Springy Thingies prompt of Lineweaving.com and suddenly there was this pattern, born on the first day of spring :-). I first named it tulips, and that's what they are, but I thought, since it is typically Dutch and Amsterdam, our capital is wellknown all over the world, and since tangling is becoming international, I decided to name it Amsterdam. Have fun with it. I hope to admire all your results on your blogs. Een bekend Nederlands volksliedje is: Tulpen uit Amsterdam. Ik was aan het spelen met de Springy Thingies prompt van Lineweaving.com en opeens was daar dit patroontje, geboren op de eerste lentedag! Eerst noemde ik het tulp, want dat zijn het ook, maar ik dacht: tulpen is typisch Hollands en Amsterdam is onze hoofdstad en wereldwijd bekend en omdat tanglen al behoorlijk internationaal is, besloot ik dit patroon Amsterdam te noemen. Veel plezier ermee! Ik hoop al jullie resultaten op de diverse site te bewonderen. Mayflower by Ellen Wolters BLOOMING CHIVE by Ellen Wolters Tapis by Ellen Wolters Kwilt by Ellen Wolters Hypknotix (named by Pixiey) by Ellen Wolters C'ds by Ellen Wolters SQUARCLES BY ME :-) Tanglepattern BANG! by Ellen Wolters Tanglepatterns SQUEEZLES and SMUBBLES by Ellen Wolters Brabs by Ellen Wolters

Buntes Stifte-Set Durch den Komfortgriff sind die Stifte von Lyra ideal für Kinder im Vorschulalter. Die extradicke Mine von 6,25 mm macht die Stifte besonders stark und bruchfest. Die einzigartige Stiftform des abgerundeten Dreiecks bietet eine wesentlich größere Auflagefläche für die Schreibfinger als herkömmliche Stifte. Dadurch wird, besonders bei Kindern und Linkshänder/innen, ein wesentlich längeres und ermüdungsfreies Malen und Schreiben ermöglicht. Die wisch- und wasserfeste Mine ist wirtschaftlich im Verbrauch und zeichnet sich besonders durch ihren hohen Pigmentanteil und ihre Bruchsicherheit aus. Das macht die Ferby Stifte so besonders:  Die Buntstifte "Lyra FERBY®" können sogar auf Holz malen. Das kommt durch den hohen Pigmentanteil. Ideal zum Gestalten von schönen Dekoelementen.

WiP: Work in Progress. Need I say more? Of course I do. Even if I don't need to, I will. After all, that's why I have a blog: to elaborate on my ideas with anyone who cares to take the time to read them. :-) If that's you, then thank you for reading! I have just returned home from a delightful family vacation...I thought I'd be blogging from the beach condo, and tangling up a storm, but that didn't happen. Instead I read...and shopped and dined and slept, and took in a show (SHOUT! The Mod Musical), and enjoyed time with my inlaws and nephew as well as my husband and kids. So now I feel very relaxed, but also waaaaay behind on Diva challenges and blog posts, as I was already behind before I left on vacation! My next few entries will feature unfinished tiles--ones that I started for various Diva challenges, including this week's challenge, UMT v. VI: Fiore di Pietro (Challenge #77). Fiore di Pietro is a new tangle by Rho Densmore, CZT, in memory of her brother-in-law who passed very unexpectedly a mere two-and-a-half weeks ago. It's a beautiful tangle, full of possibilities to explore. Click here to link to directions. This first tile in which I've utilized Fiore di Pietro is incomplete in that I haven't yet shaded it...but I am so eager to get a post up, after skipping a few weeks, I want to go ahead and share it! I'll post it again after I've shaded it. (DONE! 7/10/12) I love seeing other people's work mid-process, so I hope you can enjoy mine in stages. Tangles used: Fiore di Pietro, Pweeko, Ving, Tipple And here's the finished tile. Rho, you are welcome to use this, if you wish. Also in the WiP category--make that the Cool WiP category; I wouldn't post something if I didn't think it was cool--is a glorious new tangle from Zentangle! It is currently nameless. (!!!!!!) Rick and Maria posted it to the Zentangle newsletter and blog last week and challenged us to name it and draw step-outs (the diagrams that break down a tangle into simple steps). My proposed name is Cintronica, after Tina Cintron (see explanation below). I completed these step-outs super fast on vacation at Hilton Head Island on the coast of South Carolina last week. I jumped right to task as soon as I saw the newsletter about the new tangle and the name/step-out challenge. I had to rush through them for fear that I'd peek at directions if someone else posted their version before I'd finished mine. I allowed myself very little time to do this, as our family was about to head out for an afternoon of kayaking. (Our first ever kayak excursion...and it was WONDERFUL! Our tour group enjoyed the presence of a lone dolphin who surfaced in our area numerous times...once a mere 15 feet or so behind me!) My step-outs, messy thought they are, and crudely photographed with Caroline's iPad, are as follows: About the name I propose, Cintronica, and it's origin: Tina Cintron has an instructional DVD that I purchased for use in my classroom. The DVD's focus is on watercolor resist techniques, but a bonus feature is that she shows how to draw basic Celtic knots using a configuration she calls "Headless Dancing Man." Headless Dancing Man is a square whose sides are extended in four different directions, as seen in the first diagram of Step 2 of my step-outs above. If that figure is turned diagonally, it really does look like a block-bodied stick man that is missing his head and doing the can-can. Or about to do a cartwheel. Headless Dancing Man is a great way to start an endless number of Celtic Knot design variations...and as such, has become an important figure in my teaching. Thus, when I saw this new tangle that utilizes the concept I learned from Tina Cintron, I wanted to propose a name that honors her. The "ca" I added at the end of my proposed title is short for "cabin," as in "log cabin," the tradition quilt block construction method that utilizes strips of cloth. My daughter Caroline has a tangle that we call DecoLoCa (see it used here on the egg), which is short for Deconstructed Log Cabin, which is also inspired in part by the log cabin quilt block. About my Cool WiP concept: This past school year our PTA adopted a food/cooking theme for the annual back-to-school activities and membership drive. It was a fun theme; I thought of our art room as "Smorgasbord Studio," though I never officially named it that by making a sign. I also tried to think of unusual ways to work the theme of "food" into the art curriculum. I had a lot of ideas that never made it to fruition (note the pun I worked in there? FRUITion?!), but one of my ideas that I did bring to life is the Cool WiP board: Cool Work-in-Progress. I had a bulletin board that I would occasionally post impressive artwork-in-progress by my students. Sometimes I even gave out a Cool Wip wristband that I made up as an award that students could wear home to show their parents that their artwork had been honored. I didn't get it going until late in the year, though, so it wasn't a main feature of the artroom and class routine...but next year I want to carry on with it and make a bigger deal about it to get the students excited. Thanks for reading if you made it this far! As always, any comments you post are cherished. Happy tangling!

Late this past summer I taught some Zentangle classes at the 2012 Paint in Alberta convention. This interesting and simple pattern was the wallpaper in one of the rooms. Here's how to draw Pia. You can vary Pia by changing where (and if) you fill with black or with thin stripes. Here are some possible variations and a tile (using a two-pencil string) with some of them. Tangles: Beadlines, Knase, Pia BTW: It's getting harder and harder to keep track of tangles and names. If this pattern has been presented elsewhere, or if the name has been used earlier, please let me know!

Für alle, die es interessiert, gibt es hier die Schritte für meine Paradox-Variation. Nach jeder Runde wird einfach die Richtung der Striche gewechselt. Hat man, wie in den Schritten gezeigt, mit der Linie von unten links nach oben rechts angefangen, wird nach einer Runde unten rechts nach oben links gezeichnet. Das muster wird deutlich unruhiger als das Original. Es erinnert mich an ein stück Papier, das im Zick-Zack gefaltet ist. Nachtrag: Nach einem kurzen Mail-Gespräch mit Linda Farmer habe ich mit ihr zusammen entschieden, dass Muster in "Reverse Paradox" umzubenennen, da es zwar auf Paradox beruht, aber unterschiedlich genug aussieht, um einen eigenen Namen zu bekommen. Sie wird das Muster demnächst auf www.tanglepatterns.com vorstellen. Die Steps wurden entsprechend angepasst. 2. Nachtrag: Wir haben uns dann doch für den Namen "Paradox Reversed" entschieden. Damit steht das Muster in der Nähe von seinem Eltern-Pattern "Paradox". For that are interested in i have made a step out for my Paradox variation. After each round the direction of the strokes changes. If you began with a line from botten left to top right (like in the step out) you draw from bottom right to top left for the next round. This pattern is a little bit more "turbulent" than the original. It reminds me a little bit of a folded piece of paper folded zigzag. Addendum: After chatting with Linda Farmer using eMail we decided to name this tangle "Reverse Paradox". It's based on Paradox but different enough to get an own name. She will introduce the pattern soon on her page www.tanglepatterns.com. The step out was changed accordingly. 2. Addendum: We finally decided to call this pattern "Paradox Reversed". With this name it is near its parent pattern "Paradox" in the alphabetically list of patterns.

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I was flicking through the pages of 'Canvas Embroidery Patterns' and was inspired by a Bargello kind of pattern. It reminded me of corrugated board and as I didn't think much of the name 'corrugated' I decided on 'Krinkle'. It's a very simple pattern with basically 2 steps. I'm going to play some more - I think it's very versatile and has lots of room for many embellishments. Here, I've only shown a few - I think you get the drift - I do hope you like it and try it out for yourselves. It really comes to life with some shading. Have a great week :) my inspiration - the colours are so rich and beautiful Seeing as I finished the step out and shading today, I will enter it as my Day 11, create each day in June - a challenge with Kelly Barone from http://whimsyandzen.blogspot.com.au/

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The inspiration for this pattern came from a beautiful pattern on a blouse I saw a woman wearing. It reminded me of daisies - our daughter Elena's favorite flower. It is named for her, as we affectionately call her Lanie. This is what it looks like in a monotangle: Here it is used with other tangles: It creates a lovely scalloped edge, doesn't it?  

This came to me in the middle of the night.

Laura Harms' Challenge #38 is all about paradox or as she playfully calls it, "Better than a Pair of Ducks." I had to come out to play for this challenge! After all, this tangle is also called Rick's paradox. When I came up with this tangle, as far as I can remember, I hadn't seen it elsewhere. Since then we've learned that it is a quilting technique from at least as early as the 1950s. We named this tangle "paradox" because by only using straight lines, you automatically create spiraling curves. After I admired the many Zentangle paradox creations posted on Laura's blog, I considered different strings for my tile. Then I noticed the background design on her site . . . . . . and chose that for my string or more precisely my paradox structure, since I created it in pen. I had already explored creating a two sided paradox. This would be a great opportunity to play with that form. This was interestingly different because it uses mostly curved lines. The lines in the two-sided shape had to remain curved. However, in the four-sided shape I eased into straight lines after about four cycles. I also broke one of my own "rules" and used a mechanical aid for my original circles. Everything after that was free hand. In this partially completed view you can see some of those initial lines. I left a couple shapes undone to add interest and to show what shapes were used. I used a Sakura® Pigma® Micron 005 black pen throughout. This experiment resulted in a beautiful tesselation. Notice how that single calla lily shape repeats itself and fits with itself to cover the surface. Thanks for this challenge, Laura. I wonder if there is a "Pair of Ducks" swimming around this pair o' . . . :-) Click images for larger view.

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My copy of The Beauty of Zentangle arrived this week. There is so much inspiration and fascinating ideas on every page. You will find traditional Zentangles, colourful Zentangle Inspired Art and magical tangles with thoughtful messages from 137 tangle artists from around the world!! It was an absolute treat to have 3 of my ZIAs chosen.

We are camping at Bridport beach with our grandchildren so I am feeling very protective of them while they jump in the waves and climb over the rocks.

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No wonder I had circles on my mind. I had recently finished the Diva Challenge #169 making your string out of circles. We were camping at Maryhill State Park and the campground is basically a circle. Washington State's Stonehenge replica ia nearby and there are windmills on the cliff. Circles abundant. Could this be my first true zentangle pattern? I think so. Maryhill Start with a basic shape or string. A circle works nicely, or how about a Zendala? Divide it up into pie segments, any number. Work one segment at a time. Draw an inside aura from the left side and stop just before reaching the right side of the segment. Then bring your line to the center. It helps if you turn your tile as you move from the left to right stroke to the downward stroke. Repeat to fill in the segment. Repeat in the rest of the segments. See how that windmill shape just magically appears? Try different shapes, or different numbers of segments. Try skipping every other segment and fill with another tangle (it looks awesome with Paradox don't you think?) Try filling in every other segment with a reverse Maryhill. **Update : Check out the "Maryhill" label to the right for all my Maryhill examples and variations! The Zentangle® Method is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. It was created by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas. "Zentangle" is a registered trademark of Zentangle, Inc. Learn more at zentangle.com. Posted with Blogsy

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I'm taking an online class and this is part of my homework. See www.janeville.blogspot.com/ for the scoop.

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