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Hi everyone... my Tangling friends I have loaded up some patterns...  this is a template I downloaded from http://tanglepatterns.com/downloads it's great to play around with your own patterns... and a great way of practising them On of my all time favourite Paradox Triangles in my last post I used this pattern in the centre of my design One of my absolutely favourite patterns Paradox Square I use this pattern lots This Pattern Lap is a bit fiddley but looks amazing this one was designed by Lizzie Mayne in 2012 Another great pattern Cicerone looks affective This pattern Basket Weave can be done in many ways you just have to choose what you want it to look like... great for background on large designs This pattern Daisy Square you can do so much with I love this Pattern Tangled Ribbons very easy to do.. Well I hope they have been great inspiration for you to try.. have ago and try them out.... or even design your own... please share them with me HappyTangling Judy

'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

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This is the 3rd (and last) step out for the tangles of Day 10 in the "One Zentangle a Day" book I've been working through. I really had fun moving the corner "dark" space into different configurations to create additional interesting versions. I love how this pattern looks once shaded. I drew this step out on an ATC. This photo shows the front and back of the card.

You gotta love alliteration! This week's "It's a String Thing" challenge uses four official Zentangle® patterns that begin with the letter 'T' : Tagh, ,Tipple, Tortuca, and Tripoli . They are all listed on Tangle Patterns with illustrations and suggestions, but Tipple and Tortuca do not have step outs posted. These tangles are pretty self-explanatory, but just in case you need a bit more information before you try them on your own, here are my notes about them... In this tile, I used Tipple in the negative spaces of the tangle pattern Fengle. The word tortuca means, among other things, turtle. It does resemble a turtle shell when completed. By the way, these pages are from my pattern notebook. The page is actually a free download from Tangle Patterns. On the home page in the top pink bar, there is a tab named "Organize Your Patterns". Linda Farmer has many suggestions there for pattern notebooks and plenty of free downloads. Check it out sometime! And now, since you have even more information about these pretty patterns, try your hand at this week's challenge. Click here for more information and have fun tangling! You are welcome to leave a comment in the space below. If you would like to hear from me, please use the email box to the right. Thank you!

While attempting the 75th Zentangle weekly challenge - to use Cadent - my brain went off in other directions and instead presented a few lovely variations of Cadent. For another very cool variation of Cadent, see CZT Patty Meijer's blog here. Some of the things my brain sprouted are so different that I think they warrant their own name. I'll be sharing them this week. First up, FUNLS, which probably bears the most resemblance to Cadent. Say 'funnels'. I think we owe our non-English-first-language tangle buddies some explanations of the odd/oddly-spelled names we come up with for some tangles! A hint: frequently they are rather phonetic and don't use the frequently bizarre English spelling. :) For shading, go to the base of the squiggly lines. Here's a tile with Funls: Tangles: Black Pearlz, Funls, Groovy, Knase, LinQ, Tortuca

Here are Zentangle's instructions for the tangle Paradox, from the February 2008 newsletter. Paradox is one of my favorite tangles and I seem to do it rather well. Perhaps those two things are related! :-) I've been asked about it occasionally, how did I do this or that. I thought about doing a video but that's just a bit more than I can take on right now. So I decided to post some tips and ideas here, and hope to make them clear enough. TIPS! TIP #1: The elegant curves show best if the lines are close together. See the difference. TIP #2: Agh! But what if you accidentally leave too much space between some lines? Simple! Just add a line or two between the ones that are too spacey, like this: Then again, never say never. I tried deliberately leaving wide spaces that I then filled with other tangles. You can see the results here. TIP #3: Paradox works best in triangles or squares. It's not bad in a pentagon but gets worse and worse as there are more and more sides. For one thing, the center deteriorates quickly as you move in. Besides, drawing a fairly regular shape with more than four sides, freehand, is quite a challenge. Stick with squares and triangles. TIP #4: There are two looks that can be achieved with Paradox. In my classes I call them "Fans" and "Twists". Here they are: Paradox is essentially a square or triangular spiral. These two effects are obtained depending on which direction you send your spirals. TWISTS: Regardless of whether you spiral clockwise or counter-clockwise, if you spiral in the same direction in every section you'll end up with twists. FANS: To get the fans you need to spiral in the opposite direction from section to section. Starting with squares Starting with triangles If you prefer to be less technical and more intuitive, you can look at what's happening in the section adjacent to the one you want to work in, and note where the lines need to converge and where they need to splay out. TIP #5: Munchin is a tangle that flows particularly nicely placed next to Paradox. Others that could work well this way are Tri-po, Facets, possibly Hibred (scroll down the link). I can also see possibilities for Tripoli (another of my favorite tangles) and Betweed. This is a rectangle divided in three. The red arrows show where the divisions are. AND THEN SOME! THEN SOME #1: Paradox also makes a nice border design. Start with a row of squares or triangles, then decide whether you want fans or twists. THEN SOME #2: An interesting variation is to fill in every other stripe. Don't do this going around the spiral the way you did the tangle. It's too easy to get confused that way. Begin on one side and fill in to the center, then move on to another side. THEN SOME #3: The triangles or squares you use don't all have to meet neatly at the corners. Interesting things happen when they're placed randomly. You can also use a mix of triangles and squares. THEN SOME #4: Sometimes when I'm doing Paradox using squares there's an odd-shaped section, like a trapezoid. (What a great word!) I've found a few ways of dealing with this challenge. One thing you can do is separate that end bit and deal with it on its own. This leaves a triangle and you can fill it in a number of ways: 1) fill the triangle with Paradox with a twist effect 2) fill the triangle with Paradox with a fan effect 3) fill the triangle Munchin style to extend the fan 4) fill the triangle Munchin style in the other direction Another option is to fill the odd shape entirely with Paradox, adding an extra line or two occasionally as you're spiralling around. You need to think about the direction of the spiral in order for the extra lines to fill the proper space. The aim is to get the (temporarily) empty center area looking more like a regular square. THEN SOME #5: Never say never, right? While the classic Paradox is done entirely with straight lines - thus the paradox - it can also be done using curved lines. It takes a little more concentration. THEN SOME #6: If you're feeling confident, here's something to try: partial Paradox! This requires imagining what's not there, but (of course) it doesn't have to be exact or perfect. Here you can see: 1st: a string 2nd: other tangles (Crescent Moon, Florez, Keenees, Prestwood, Tripo), with two sections left blank. The solid green line makes a nice square in the section where I want to put Paradox. Normally I'd draw it in black. Then there's a dotted green line where I need to imagine the far edge of the other Paradox square. 3rd: one and a half Paradoxes and the final section filled with Gingham THEN SOME #7: Paradox in a paradox. See the Paradox section in the lower left of the tile below? Going from the point in the center, there's a Paradox triangle, a Paradox square, and a partial Paradox. In the square section I did Paradox until about halfway in, then, I reversed direction! Cool! Other tangles here: Moving Day, Ninja Stars, Screen - all mine! FINALLY Here's a pencil string, some notes about what I did, and the Paradox result: There are more examples of Paradox in other Zentangle newsletters here (scroll down) and here (scroll down). I was about to throw out all the examples I did for this post when I thought, "Hmm. Let's stick 'em all together and see what happens." So here it is, the all-in-one (minus one) Paradox visual tutorial! HAVE FUN! (and congratulations to anyone who stuck through it to the end!) THIS JUST IN! August 2011: For another take on Paradox, using a two-sided shape (how cool is that!) see the Zentangle blog post for August 26. June 2012: for a cool variation that I call feathered Paradox see my blog post of June 22, 2012 August 2018: See Rick Roberts' post "Paradox Metaphors" here. April 2020: Another variation, Crazy Paradox, here on my blog.

Redo of Trifoil to emphasize shape and the relationship of the lines.

This week I'm sharing the new tangles I came up with while trying to use Cadent for the Diva's challenge. These new tangles all use the small circles and S-curved line from Cadent, but they don't resemble Cadent much at all. I rather like it when the 'rectangle' has an Aura inside, then filled black. Here's a Zendala tile using Dentri, with the triangles also mostly black: Tangles: Black Pearlz, Dentri, Zewm, stripes with highlights

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This idea popped into my head one morning: circles with a crescent moon shape on one side and the non-moon shape filled with something and a black background. Since there is already tangle called Crescent Moon (one of my favorites) I mashed the words together and came up with Croon. It's quite a simple tangle pattern with some careful blacking in. I think the variation above has a 'seed pod' look about it. Shading can be added on the inside edge of the non-crescent part. Here's Croon at work. On both tiles I've added a few tiny white circles amongst the "croons". Makes it a bit more outer spacey. It would be fun to mix Croon and Suzanne McNeill's Moon Rocks (scroll down). Tangles: Beadlines, Croon, Keenees, Knase, Not-a-Knot, Paradox, Tipple, Tripoli, Zedbra In the next tile I used both the original Croon and the variation shown in the drawing instructions. Tangles: Black Pearlz, Croon, Knase, Paradox, Screen, Yale

Seit eh und je mühe ich mich ein wenig ab, wenn ich Menschen, Kinder und Figuren zeichnen möchte. Zeit, dass ich es ein bisschen strukturierter angehe und wirklich übe. Vielleicht weil ich meinem Sohn mal ein paar Menschen vorzeichnen können möchte. Vielleicht weil ich die Idee, Menschen zeichnen bzw. besser gesagt illustrieren zu können, total spannend finde. Wie dem auch sei, ich will jetzt Menschen zeichnen lernen. Heute geht’s los mit drei ersten einfachen Varianten, wie man Menschen und Kinder auf eher lustig-Doodle-mäßige Weise zeichnen kann. 1| Ganz einfach Kinder zeichnen: Kreis-Gesicht + Körper-Viereck + Arm&Bein-Striche Die erste Variante sind eigentlich ein bisschen erweiterte Strichmännchen. Einfach einen Kreis als Kopf zeichnen, mit Augen, Nase und Mund (schön rund gebogen, damit es niedlich aussieht) versehen. Dann mit drei Strichen einen Vierecks-Körper unter dem Kopf anfügen (oben muss ja keine Linie hin, weil da der Kopf sitzt). Den Abschluss bilden einfache vier Striche als Arme und Beine und nach Belieben noch ein paar kleinere Striche als Hände und Füße. Fertig. Und wenn man dann noch mit ein paar Farben (ruhig nicht so perfekt die Formen ausfüllend, es kann auch gerne hier und da daneben gehen) die kleinen Figuren verschönert, hat man ratzfatz ein paar lustige Kinder gezaubert. Ach ja, und dann kann man natürlich noch ein bisschen mit den Arm- und Bein-Strichen variieren… aber seht am besten selbst. 2| Eine einfache Familie zeichnen – die Strichmännchen um ein paar Details und Accessoires erweitern Weiter geht es mit einer Variante, die nur einen kleinen Schritt weiter geht als die erste. Also immer noch ziemlich einfach und auch super gut mit Kinder zu zeichnen. Wieder Kreis als Kopf, Gesicht einzeichnen und Haare. Dann den Körper ein wenig mehr ausdetaillieren, z.B. ein Dreieck als Oberkörper und dann noch eines als Rock oder eine weite Hose dazu. Dann die Strich-Arme&Beine anfügen. Zuletzt noch ein paar Details und lustige Accessoires hinzufügen – irgendwas, das die Familie halten kann (und sie womöglich als Vater, Mutter, Kind identifiziert), z.B. Blume, Ballon, Auto, Puppe. Wer mag, kann es dann wiederum locker mit Farben hier und da ausmalen. 3| Lustige Leute und Kinder zeichnen Ein klein wenig mehr Details (und mehr Übung) bietet die folgende Variante, die ich aus dem Buch “Lustige Leute von heute” von Sachiko Umoto kenne. Du startest mit einem Kreis als Kopf bzw. Gesicht (ha, das ist jetzt schon drin, was?!) – ein toller Tipp: oben den Kreis nicht schließen, dann kann man später super viele verschiedene Frisuren daraus machen. Dann ein Gesicht einzeichnen – wiederum ganz easy mit Punkten als Augen, eine gerade Nase und einen kleinen lächelnden Mund. Ohren auf Höhe der Augen platzieren. Bei Erwachsenen etwas darunter. Aber wenn man Kinder zeichnet, sollten die Ohren auf Höhe der Augen sein und der Kopf auch etwas größer im Verhältnis zum Körper. Dann kommt das Kindchenschema gut raus. Oder so… *zwinker* Beim Körper etwas mehr Details, aber alles noch einfach gehalten: Viereck als Oberkörper, eng anliegende Arme anfügen, Hände, bei denen sich nur Daumen und Rest der Hand unterscheiden, eine Hose oder Rock und einfache Schuhe. Zuletzt das Ganze mit ein paar kleinen Feinheiten abschließen – dann kann man auch mit dieser einfachen Grundidee wirklich viele und unterschiedliche Kinder oder Menschen zaubern. Solche Feinheiten sind z.B. Streifen auf dem Pullover, kleine Striche als Hosentaschen oder Streifen auf den Schuhen und kleine Schleifen, die diese zu Turnschuhen werden lassen. So, dies sind die ersten drei einfachen Varianten, die ich gefunden und geübt habe, um das Zeichnen von Menschen zu lernen. Jetzt bist du dran! *zwinker* Liebe Greetz, Silja Kostenloser Starter-Guide zum Zeichnen lernen:

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Je 3 Übungsblätter für 9 Pulli-Kolams in verschiedenen Schwierigkeitsstufen zum Nachspuren und Zeichnen von Linienbildern aus Indien. Kolams bestehen aus Punkte (Pulli), die man ohne den Stift abzusetzen, umfährt. Das einfachste Pulli-Kolam besteht aus zwei Punkte und sieht aus wie eine liegende 8. Solche Schleifen kann man “bis zur Unendlichkeit” zeichnen. Je mehr Pulli ein Kolam hat, umso komplizierter ist es, und umso mehr muss man sich beim Zeichnen konzentrieren. In diesem PDF haben wir die einfachsten Kolams ausgewählt und sie in Arbeitsblätter für Kinder überarbeitet. Das Arbeiten mit Kolams macht Spaß, fördert die Konzentration, trainiert das Gedächtnis und das kontinuierliche Zusammenspiel von Auge und Hand. Für die Pulli-Kolams empfehlen wir das Malpapier, DIN A4 oder die Malblätter, DIN A4.

"Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something." Jean Paul One of my favorite tangles is 'Nzeppel, so I was happy to see that it's the focus tangle this week on the Facebook group Square One. Right off the bat I knew I'd be creating multiple tiles for this "One." When I taught a class a few months ago all about tangleations, 'Nzeppel was one of the tangles I showcased. I had worked on several tangleations and decided to use some of them in my tiles for this focus. In case you don't already know, a tangleation is a noticeable variation of a tangle pattern. I will be showing you my tiles, as well as the step-outs for the tangleations I used. If you aren't familiar with the tangle pattern 'Nzeppel, you can see the step-outs here. For my first tile I chose to use the random variety of the pattern, not based on a grid. This is not one of my tangleations, but one of the ways to draw 'Nzeppel introduced by Maria Thomas and Rick Roberts. First I drew Cosmo, by CZT Sonya Yencer, as my string and filled all the background with random 'Nzeppel. I didn't take a picture before shading, but believe me, the shading made such a huge difference in this tile! I only wish I could get the shading in my scanned photos to look like it does in real life! Here is my second tile, using one of my tangleations, along with my pattern Sharmin, from my e-book Step Out in Style. Below are the step-outs for this tangleation. Notice that the first 2 steps are what you would do for the standard form of 'Nzeppel, which I think of as squishing balloons into the triangular spaces. But then I drew auras inside each of those squished balloons. An aura is a line traced around the outside or inside of a tangle. In the last box I demonstrate two different ways this can be shaded, and used the one on the right side to shade the above tile. Next I decided to try out the pattern Onion Drops by Shasta Garcia, which I've never used before. I added another tangleation of 'Nzeppel in the background. Here are the step-outs I used for the tangleation shown above. After drawing my grid and an X in each square of the grid, I drew lines dividing each of the triangles into two sections, as shown. Then I added a squished balloon in each section. For my last tile, I used a third tangleation. I created a very large 'Nzeppel in the center of the tile, surrounded by a little Tipple and a lot of Hollibaugh. The step-outs for that tangleation are shown below. Instead of drawing an X in each square of the grid, I only drew one diagonal line, alternating the direction of the diagonal in each square. Then I added a line in each of the triangles to divide it into two sections, and squished my balloons into each one of those sections. 'Nzeppel is a pattern that you can really do a lot with. Other ideas that I've used are a really curvy grid, an offset grid, and one more that I did the step-outs for, but do not have a tile to show you. In this one, I again started with an X in each square. Then I drew another triangle inside each triangular section (an aura), and squished a balloon into each of those triangles. 'Nzeppel isn't the only pattern you can create so many tangleations for. Try it yourself with another pattern and you might be surprised by what great variations you end up with. A wonderful way to make a pattern your own!

Well, d-day has almost arrived. Tomorrow I head back to school. Where did the summer go? At least the class schedule is looking pretty light and I'll only be at school for 2- 2 1/2 days a week. Today I want to share a really simple technique/pattern I've called "String Rose". This idea first made an appearance on the blog during the old into new challenge back in 2014. I named one of the experimentation tiles as Trentwith and though this pattern was the initial source of inspiration, my version takes a different approach. I had always meant to share the technique as it's so simple, and fun, but I just didn't get around to it. Until now! 2 1/2 years later.....haha. O.k., here goes........ The String Rose Pattern - this shows the base technique. As it's all done in one continuous line, I thought a little insta-video might help out: A video posted by A Little Lime (@alittlelime) on Feb 4, 2017 at 11:09pm PST I've never linked my Instagram video before so I hope it works - not sure whether it will show up via email, so if not, just visit the website, or my instagram feed. Why not try String Rose out on different grids? Shown here on a s-grid (alternating) and a diamond grid. The s-grid is my favourite. Adds to the organic feel, I think. You don't need to be locked into a grid to draw this. Freehand some random sized roses, add a few leaves. Ta da. Bouquet! Have a great day! hx

Here's another of my tangles resulting from experiments with the official tangle Cadent. It's sort of a hybrid of Cadent and Paradox so I call it Cadox. I also like it with these variations. First, with an extra line in the 'blades' and second, with Black Pearlz in the small circles Like Paradox and Cadent, it's very striking in multiple:

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Here is a list of all official Zentangle® patterns with links to their respective step-by-step and Youtube tutorials. There are also keyword descriptions of each pattern to make it easier to quickly search the list. Tip: Use the Search bar at the top right corner of the list to quickly find specific patterns. For example,...Read More »

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Good to be back after a few weeks hiatus! It is getting crazy here at the end of the school year. I usually ended up running pretty ragged before I was working just keeping up with the schedules of the three kids and all that happens at the end of the year. With a job that is also on the same schedule it is even nuttier! However, I have a step-out to share and i just had to share my interpretation of the UMT "Brella" challenge from Laura Harms this week. Sadly, I had no Star Wars inspiration (since it was presented on May the 4th (be with you) day), unless "starfish" is close enough. I immediately saw the 'jellyfish' possibilities in Brella... I also see an old quilting pattern called "Hidden Wells" in its overlapping lines if the "tops" are not all pointed in the same direction. This is the second piece with Brella done the 'standard way'. Now if you turn all those tops so that groups of four are all pointing at the same corner you would get a pattern like this... Do you see the resemblance? It is a really fun pattern made out of sets of strips and if you can avoid the bias stretch on the diagonal cuts you are golden. A few weeks ago I posted a few examples of a pattern I called 'Cobbles'. I finally got around to drawing out the steps and here they are. Let me know what you think of the new pattern... is it a 'tangle' or just a pattern? Have a great week!

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Pipez - though I typically use this pattern with steampunk, I'm sure it could be used in many other ways. Here are some examples: A variation - laying pipez on its side and making it a metal wall. Another variation - changing the slant of some of the dividers. I hope you enjoy pipez. I'd love to see what you do with it. Please, feel free to pin this pattern to your boards, giving credit to The Creator's Leaf.

Weekly Challenge #197: "New Official Tangle - Arukas" Last weekend a new official tangle was announce in the Zentangle Newsletter - it's called Arukas... which is cleverly Sakura backwards! what a great challenge, i love this pattern, and made some experiments in my zen-sketchbook, before the challenge was out:-). i like to share with you..... i send only one page from about 3....and i gonna create an extra-tile for the challenge. ....ZIA with my new pattern "NIURODA", you finde the step-out here. .....and my stones:

patsy monk has organized a new year ZIA postcard swap among some of the CZTs. I stuck with the classic black on white, on 4"x6" cards. The only real requirement was that the date "2013-01-01" appear on the card somewhere, somehow, and that we list the tangles we used on the back. Sometimes I put "2013/01/01 in one section of the string. Here are two like that, both in the upper left corners: I didn't do that with all of them. Sometimes I used '2013' as a string and placed the "01 01" in a section. Here are two like that. Can you find the "01 01" in each of them? ("01 01" can be found in the lower left and upper left, respectively) Sometimes I even used "2013 01 01" as the string. So here's a little puzzle for you: can you find "2013 01 01" on this card? Happy hunting! And Happy New Year (Gregorian that is)! Tangles: Beadlines, Black Pearlz, Crossview, Drupe, Fleurette, Flux, Jalousie, Knightsbridge, Sanibelle, Tipple, and a triquetra