Rain is one of the official Zentangle® patterns and it makes a great border tangle. Rain can be drawn with irregular zigzags or very precise ones and each produces attractive effects.
Maria tells us Rain was inspired by a design she and Rick saw on pottery in an Iranian exhibit in the Louvre on a trip to Paris. They playfully shuffled the letters spelling “Iran” into Rain.
CZT® Suzanne McNeill shows us how to draw Rain with step-by-step instructions, here. Suzanne illustrates the pattern repeated side-by-side making this a good filler pattern too.
Guest Zentangle: Jella Verelst
Here is a beautiful example of Rain within a Zentangle. This is the work of CZT® Jella Verelst from Belgium, and is shown on TanglePatterns.com with her permission.
Jella owns PaperArtStudio and teaches Zentangle® as meditative art form. She tells me she creates her Zentangles in complete silence, and I think that total focus definitely shows in her art. If you live in or near Belgium and want to take a workshop with a master, here is her workshop calendar.
A Zentangle® by Jella Verelst incorporating the Rain tangle pattern. Copyright the artist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Used with permission.
Check out the tag zentangle for more official Zentangle® patterns, and jellav for more of her Zentangles on TanglePatterns.com.
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This pattern is very neat!!!