Rhode Island CZT® Norma Burnell, creator of the lovely Dragonair tangle pattern, shares the delicate new Chainlea tangle with us.”I’m calling it ‘Chainlea’ because it kinda reminds me of a chain and a leaf.”
Norma’s art is primarily Zentangle-inspired “all tangled up” fairy-related art. On her blog Fairy Tangles, Norma introduces herself: “I love to work small: especially to create ACEOs, Zentangle Inspired Art pieces and other Original Small Works of Art (OSWOA). I mainly work in graphite, color pencil and ink.”
Norma sells her art on ebay, be sure to check it out. Cat lovers will adore her photorealistic “Mr Binks” – remember these are 2.5 inches x 3.5 inches pieces of art – roughly the size of a standard business card. Pretty amazing, don’t you think?
Chainlea works well as a border tangle and you can also expand it outwards as a fill for a section. I admit to a bit of a struggle with this one and after several “practice rounds” I discovered that drawing the first two steps upside down was easier for me than right-side up. Go figure. Confession – could it have been that my “other consciousness” was occupied with Game 1 of the Miami Heat-Indiana Pacers NBA playoff series? You know I’m a dedicated Miami Heat fan, right? Oops, bifurcated focus. (PS – we won, Yay! One down, 3 to go.)
Norma posted the step-by-step instructions for drawing her Chainlea tangle here, where she also illustrates a range of cool variations of her tangle.
Check out the tag normab for more of Norma’s patterns on TanglePatterns.com.
Thanx so much for sharing all of these tangles. I am new to Zentangle and contemplating getting started. Your site is a great help and I really love not only seeing gorgeous new patterns but also having instructions! Thanx so much for sharing and to all for the inspiration! It is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for this lovely new tangle. It reminds me of ears of corn! It will be a useful addition (just typed addiction by mistake – Freudian slip??) to the Zentangle Arsenal!!
Why hasn’t my comment been posted? Have I transgressed some sin I am not aware of? I love your site and refer to it often and I will be very disappointed if I cannot contribute by commenting.
Hi Lynnette, I haven’t seen a comment from you before. It must have been tagged as spam and I don’t go through those because it would take WAY too much time. But here you are now
I love this site. Found it by accident when I was searching swedish sites for activites for preschool-kids. I love this type of drawing (it’s so relaxing) and I’m sitting and exercising on small post-it notes. I don’t have Sakura pens yet (using ZIG Drawing Pens 0.2 and 0.1 atm) but I will get me a pair when I can find them! I’m a bit sad though, that there are no CZTs in Sweden, but hopefully this site can learn me a lot! Keep the good work up!
Hi Sofia, and welcome to Zentangle, so glad you love the site! You might also want to consider getting the Official Zentangle Kit – which contains two 01 Micron pens, and also has a great DVD tutorial to get you started “correctly”. You can read more about it in my TanglePatterns Store on the menu at the top of the page:
http://tanglepatterns.com/store/official-zentangle-kit
Thank you
I was just shopping for Micron pens and I found them in a store in town. I bought 005, 02, 03, 05 and 08, I didn’t find the 01 though. I also tried them out in store and found them a lot better than my ZIG pens which had a plastic tip. I’ve seen a Manga-kit with Sakura Pigma Micron pens, but now when I wanted that one, I couldn’t find it.
I’m gonna wish me a Official Zentangle Kit in Christmas present, since I’m a bit low on cash right now.