This unusual and somewhat challenging tangle, Me Three, comes to us from Portland jewelry designer and new tangler, Cindy Pope. Be sure to check out Cindy’s etsy shop for her “geeky, pop-culture, and genre-oriented jewelry”.
“I love all the patterns that have a woven look and was trying to imitate the pattern on a ceramic tile with intertwined triangles with very little success and I came up with this pattern,” Cindy writes.
“I am a survivor of a 25-year career in tax accounting and two children, now a jewelry designer who moved to Portland Oregon in 2005 from Chicago and discovered (or caught) the artistic fever that permeates our eclectic little city. Creative endeavors have always been my passion, taking disassociated parts to create a new and compelling whole—yes, even in tax returns. When given free reign of options in my new home, I fell in love with the jewelry arts. After playing around with beading and many other techniques, I stumbled upon metal clay and became instantly enamored of the medium. I loved the sheer possibilities metalclay offered and decided to learn some metal fabrication techniques to marry with my burgeoning silverclay (PMC) and base metal clay (Hadar’s clay) skills. I have built up a fairly successful business specializing in geeky, pop-culture, and genre-oriented jewelry and creating custom items for my often costuming customers. I discovered Zentangle through one of my very talented teachers, Wanaree Tanner, and discovered much to my amazement that I can actually draw (just not people). I hope to translate my tangling into a new line of jewelry pieces soon.”
The challenging part of Me Three for me was visualizing, and executing, the circular shape to draw Step 1 without using a pencil guideline. As you know for a pattern to qualify as a tangle it must be simple enough to draw without penciled guides that are later erased.
After several attempts, I figured out that if I visualize only half the circle first and get the first three strokes down well enough, then the rest of the circle becomes easier and not so lop-sided. I think this tangle also benefits from a larger scale than one of my early attempts shown here, complete with bumpy circles. However, this gives you some idea of how interesting an all-over pattern the basic motif creates. Focus, focus, focus!
Here are Cindy’s steps for drawing Me Three.
Thanks for sharing your interesting Me Three tangle with us, Cindy.
Check out the tag cindyp for more Cindy’s patterns on TanglePatterns.com.
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Have a safe and happy Memorial Day.
“All gave some, and some gave all.”
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I am also having a problem downloading tangle patterns. I quite by accident found that will loads correctly when I am using Internet Explorer. I usually use Google Chrome. I thing it is Google Chrome that is causing the problem with downloads. So, I will just use IE from now on. I haven’t tried Firefox, but it would probably work better than Google, too.
I LOVE this one!! Thanks!
Hello
I love this tangle can we print it out and if so how do we do that. Thanks
Hi Kathy, right click the image and save it to your computer, then you can print it.
Thanks for answering me and such a great tangle.
I can see the image and it looks like a fun one to try.
I love it! Thank you for sharing!
I just started using this one a few days ago, and I’m a big fan of it!
Love, love this design, Linda!! Thanks so much for sharing!
This one looks delicious!…..and I love the method of an ‘joining’ several circles onto one another. I love it ! The empty space in the middle calls out to me for a further teensy circle inside! I am off to do this one instantly, cannot wait another moment!
Oh, boy, oh, boy! Looks like fun in alt!
This is most imaginative. Have not seen anything quite like it before. Truly original.
I love the example of the 2 next to each other, and the way they fit together – awesome tangle that would work especially well for larger areas, with them fitting together so nicely!
I also wanted to thank you, Linda, for sending my ZT kit so quickly! I was so excited to get it so fast and have been playing with it all week-end! The video is the best part, I think – but I love the tiles too – I had previously been working on larger pieces of paper, but I really like using the smaller size. It’s very un-intimidating! And the paper-quality is so yummy! Also love the box and the story of where they come from.
Thanks, Jill, I’m delighted you’re enjoying your Kit. I think people miss out if they don’t use real Zentangle tiles, for the reasons you point out … and a lot more.
merci pour tous ces échanges, je pratique maintenant gràce à vous.
mes miodéles sont sur mon blog
merci rencore
Merci, Nel. Je suis tellement content que vous vous plaisez TanglePatterns.
Love it! Can’t wait to try it. I think I’ll use it in my fishing lure series…
I love this one. It just morphs into so many possibilities. Thanks.
hi all r there any aussie tanglers out there
LOTS!!