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If you are new to Zentangle®, I suggest you visit this page first to get an idea of what this site is about.
Here’s another resource that’s handy for newcomers – Exploring TanglePatterns. And check out the rest of the pages along the menu at the top of every page – there’s a wealth of information there you’ll want to see.
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The TanglePatterns.com TANGLE GUIDE, 2012 Edition
It’s not too late to get the TanglePatterns.com TANGLE GUIDE, 2012 Edition. The TANGLE GUIDE contains every tangle that appears on the site from May 2010 through December 2011. Great for newbies, it’s a 15 MB interactive 15-page e-document. You can click on every image for the steps, or print out for your own reference. Feedback about it is located here.
Everyone who financially supports TanglePatterns.com as described on this page receives the TANGLE GUIDE by email as my thank-you gift. I’ve also added an FAQ with helpful information about it here.
I have always added patterns to my art. I teach 3-D drawing to my middle school students and Zentangles are a perfect combination. I am hooked-so much fun to be just drawing for me this summer and with them when school starts!
Welcome, Amy. How nice to have time to draw for yourself, and you should be fully armed by the time school starts again. If you come up with patterns or variations, be sure to let us know! Enjoy your summer, tangling …
I just recently started to do Zentangles, and I love this site, such a wonderful resource of patterns for the beginner such as me. Thank you so much for sharing !
Welcome Brigitte, thanks for visiting and I’m pleased you love the site. If you haven’t already, please sign up for an email subscription to get notices of new posts.
Zentangles are highly addictive, in a very good way. I do recommend Sandy Bartholomew’s book Totally Tangled, it’s a great resource too and many of the patterns do not have instructions on the internet (yet). Suzanne McNeill’s new book Zentangle 3 also has dozens of new patterns to add to your collection. Happy tangling!
Am totally addicted to zentangling. Love, love. love your site. Thanx so much for making it. It is such a terrific resource for me.
~I agree~
Love this site! Addicted like all the rest! I turned my 13 yr old niece on to it this summer and am amazed at how she’s taken to it.
I know it would be tricky but it would be great if the rotating images at the top of the page could be linked to the instructions about each pattern. Or at a minimum,if the name would be visible when hovered over with a mouse.
Thanks! Glad you love the site. You’re right about it being tricky to link the images to the instructions – in fact, it’s too tricky to be done and the reason I didn’t do it when I started the site. The pattern names are all directly below each image, so hovering with a mouse isn’t necessary. By clicking the alphabetic link for the pattern you’re interested in you get to see lots more patterns you might not have noticed otherwise! Enjoy and welcome.
Wow, thanks again for putting together this wonderful resource! I’ve spent the past few days dealing with some very stressful junk – legal stuff related to my uncle’s passing. In between, I started going through the list of patterns alphabetically and just drawing each one into a little reference notebook. How relaxing. The site is so well-organized and easy on the eyes! Thanks again for your efforts here!
I tried to read through your copyright information – it is very informative, but I’m not a lawyer
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My only question is simply – if I use any Zentangle pattern encorporated in my art (i.e. not by itself) do I 1. have to name the person/patterns I used and 2. if I do happen to sell something that has some Zentangle work in it, or is made of all Zentangle patterns, am I responsible to name all the people/patterns I used? I am in an Altered Art group and we are very careful about naming creators of patterns, etc. We are also getting hooked on Zentangle, so if we incorporate any of your patterns will we be in trouble? Sorry for the long question, but I need to know before I go further and join your site.
I absolutley love it all and have “Totally Tangled”, but crave more! I’m sure you’ve answered this many times, but it is still confusing. Thanks for a great tangle site!
hi linda! I’m in an online AlphabeThursday blog series, and will be making my own tangles throughout the alphabet, to learn different patterns. I’m writing this week T is for Tangle, explaining this site, and would love to add one of your Tangles in my post. I am directed people here, to sign up and get their own, if they want. {:-Deb
Hi Deb, thanks for spreading the word! I’ll contact you by email for more details.
Hi hi hi!!! Again thank you so much for this absolutely wonderful informative site!! I find myself curious as to what everyone carries their “tangles” in while out and about. I have bought some plain/blank 3×5 to use. I’ve made a ‘book’ of sorts. Used card stock for the cover and back, punched holes in say 25 3×5 cards added some ring binders and I’m good to go! I haven’t taken it with me yet, only because I’m afraid if I put it in my purse/bag, the pages might get bent or wrinkled, and after I worked so hard on my ‘tangles’ I surely don’t want them bent or worse yet,tore! Which brings me to wonder what ‘tangle carry all’ do you use? Thanks again so much!! ~Debbie
I buy a wire-bound notebook from the art supply store — Sketch by Strathmore is nice paper and not expensive. I have a notebook that’s 3.5″ X 5″, perfect to carry around in my purse, and it doesn’t get banged up. I also bought a 8.5″ by 11″ wire-bound pad of Sketching paper, 60 lb, by Discovery Art Products, as I’m ready to try Zentangles on big sheets, but want something I can then easily reproduce onto card stock in a copy machine for multiples of my designs. I will then offer them as a coloring book!
Hi Debbie,
I love carrying my supplies with me. People will be amazed at the work you do.
I had an unused cosmetic bag laying around. (You could also use one of those pencil pouches that go in a 3-ring binder; they are sometimes at dollar stores.) It allows me to take my pattern book with step-by-step tangle patterns and a small book for creating designs. Both books are about 3.5 x 5.5 inch in size. I also carry 4 pens and a pencil. I currently use the black in 3 sizes (01, 03, 05) and will be getting a set of 01 pens in color. I can’t wait to start doing tangles in color!!
I’ve always been a big doodler, especially in meetings or on the phone. I wondered how “patterns” were put together on other artwork I’ve seen and how to incorporate that into my sketching or collages. I found your site through an artist on the Strathmore Workshop website and now I’m hooked! This is so much fun, although my tangles do not look too good yet.
Wanted you to know I posted a link to your site today on my blog.
Nancy Ward
PaperFriendly
http://www.nancywardcrafts.com
Thanks Nancy, most appreciated!
I was introduced to Zentangles as a way to meditate/ clear the mind. I love the way these wonderful visual exercises always bring me to a quiet, peaceful place.
An artist friend got me hooked on zentangles by just demonstrating one or two pattern and an unfinished suggestion for making borders.
I have been creating some very interesting patterns, BUT would never think of copying someone else’s
patterns. This web site quite honestly shook my sense of what zentangles are meant to be and do. For me, trying to copy an exact image would create a lot of thought and end my Zen moment. Should one’s patterns not be simpley generate from “doodled lines” and mindless placing of pen to paper? The outcome is always unique and a pleasant surprise for me.
Sorry, copying a preconceived pattern is just not my approach. I am going to close my eyes and keep the creative juices flowing on my own.
Hey Linda,
Hope you are 100% better now.
Just noticed your tag cloud is missing from the side of your blog. Not sure it you knew or not (was trying to find something lol)
Cheers
Deanne
Sydney Australia.
xxx
Thanks Deanne, yep I’m 100% now – for whatever good that does me
And thanks for the heads up on the tag cloud – it’s gone missing of its own accord a few times lately and I have no clue why.
I will like to join. I found zentangle so cool! I would like to know where to start. It is a lot of information. Please mentor me in this new journey called Zentangle artist…lol! Thanks, Mavi
Welcome Mavi, everything you need to know is here on the site so enjoy having a look around. Here’s a good place to start: http://tanglepatterns.com/2011/03/exploring-tanglepatterns.html. Be sure to read the comments on the pages you visit, everyone shares their knowledge and experiences in them and you’ll learn a lot there too. You can also check to see if there’s a CZT located near you and sign up for a class. Cheers and happy tangling!
Linda,
This is such a terrific site. I use it all the time. So worth $10 a year. Hopefully you will get all you need and more. Love tangling!
Pamelyn in Omaha
I have been tangling for about eight months and am addicted!! I just discovered your website and want to thank you for compiling all the tangles here!!!! I would like to post your site on my blog and in my guild newsletter for all my fellow “zens” to be able to use if that is ok with you.
Hi Jay, so glad you enjoy tangling – it’s a good addiction. You are most welcome to link to TanglePatterns on your blog, and share the link with your guild newsletter. I’d love to get a copy of your newsletter if you’d care to add me to your list. Thanks, Linda
Hi Linda. I love tangling and your site! I recently (last week) donated to the site because of all your hard work and . . . or course I want your awesome new tangle patterns guide. Will I be getting one. You can contact me at my email if you would like. thanks again.
Leslie W.
Hi Linda, I have recently started taking Zentangle classes with Shawn Hayden CZT here in South Florida. I love the relaxation and creative aspects ~ living all my life as a totally non-creative person. Your site is wonderful and is such a help, inspiration and source and I am so grateful for your efforts and generosity of heart in maintaining the site. i’ve just sent in my donation and am excited about receiving the 2012 Guide (also a big undertaking!). It’s been a big help receiving the emails with new information and patterns as well. I’m so happy to be a part of the Zentangle Community.
Best, Paula Devi
Wasn’t sure where to write this but thought you, and your followers might like this: Zentangle artwork by 4th graders that is fantastic! Using a Cezanne painting as a starting point.-http://josettebrouwer.edublogs.org/2012/03/13/still-life-meets-zentangle/
Hi,
I am a newbie to this site and would first like to know how to ask a question? I am registered with Feedburner?
I would like to ask if anyone has Windows 7 and how I would copy patterns from the website onto squares of card stock (cut into 3″ squares or close to that(so I don’t need my reading glasses to see them)I would like to keep these tiles with me in my small art case so that when I am waiting places I can draw!
thanks in advance for any advice.
Hi Gail, I’ve made it very easy for you to print out the tangles – please see the FAQ page for my Tanglepatterns.com TANGLE GUIDE. Enjoy!
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merci
Hi Linda, I have subscribed to your newsletter, made an annual contribution, and received your Tangle Patterns pdg file. I am tangling a whoooooole bunch every day. I have the luxury of doing that as I’m retired! I love your site, have downloaded your pages that do 2 on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper, copied them on card stock, and so far, have learned about 25 tangles. I’m taking a class next Tuesday from a CZT (Carol Bochner) who lives 100 miles from me; and I’m very excited. I’ve uploaded 5-6 pieces onto the flickr website, and some of them I actually even like. (I’ve done 40-50 of them but only upload the best). I hope you keep this site up; and when you do a new pattern guide, I will get that one too! I don’t have a kit yet, because I want to get it next week from my teacher and support her business, so my paper isn’t right; but the pens are pretty ok. However, my .01 micron has already run out of ink, lol! I don’t even know if you will see this; but just wanted to tell you how grateful I am that you are willing to take the time to keep this site up for all of us who are (or becoming) addicted to tangles, in whatever form. Hugs; Linda
Welcome and many thanks for your comments and support, Linda. I’m sure you’re going to LOVE your class with Carolyn! Worth traveling 100 miles for.
I love your site. I am trying to learn Zentangles on my own and your site is my resource for practicing patterns. Have you ever thought of adding a “random” button to your site? I think it would be great for when someone cannot decide which tangle to use next.