Paizel is a tangle from lettering artist and CZT® Angie Vangalis, and it’s her first on the site.
Paizel is featured in Beckah Krahula’s One Zentangle A Day on a spread that also features Angie’s “Illumitangles” – illuminated letters with tangles. “With Beckah’s book coming out this week, I thought it was time to add Paizel to the TanglePatterns lot,” writes Angie. Perfect timing, thanks Angie!
Part of this tangle pattern uses the official tangle Nekton (illustrated in Sandy Bartholomew’s AlphaTangle – along with 76 more of the original 102 official Zentangle® patterns) as the connecting background for the main motif (Step 6 below).
As you will see in Angie’s beautiful examples below, Paizel makes a very pretty border pattern. I made several attempts using it as an overall pattern and wasn’t particularly successful. For it to be pleasing to my eye, I found the “heads” of the stroke in Step 1 need to be distributed in an attractive pattern first. So, for me, border pattern it is!
Angie lives in Coppell, TX, and she introduces herself:
I’m a dedicated creative professional, lettering artist, author and teacher. My art and Zentangle-related tools and products have been developed to inspire and are also featured in news and trade publications. My company AV Graphics provides marketing solutions and training for small businesses. I earned a BA degree in Art, am certified as an official Zentangle Teacher (CZT) and for Copic markers. My philanthropic activities include Director of the 25th International Lettering Arts conference and Chairman of Texas & Neighbors Regional Art competition.
Here are Angie’s step-by-step instructions for drawing Paizel and a Zentangle also featuring it as a border. Notice how Angie’s shading really makes the Paizel “frame” look 3D.
Angie also sent along a sneak peak at one of her pages (Day 31) in One Zentangle A Day.
Here’s Angie’s lovely original Zentangle from the book, featuring Paizel and several other official tangles. (Editorial note: You really can’t go wrong with the official tangles, they all play so well together.)
Check out the tag angiev for more of Angie’s patterns on TanglePatterns.com.
Related Links
- Linda’s List of Official Zentangle® Patterns – the complete list of official patterns (i.e., created by Zentangle® founders Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas), including those not published online. If you are new to Zentangle, I highly recommend starting with the published official tangles.
- Find Angie Vangalis and all the other active Certified Zentangle Teachers here on zentangle.com
Newbie to Tangle and I am really enjoying these daily highlights and how-to pictures. Thanks so much for providing such helpful information.
So pretty!
Yay! really like this tangle. Well done Angie.
Very nice and decorative!
Love it! Thanks for sharing ” )
Every once in a while you see a new tangle and it just “grabs you”. This one did for me. I could hardly wait to get out a tile and start tangling. I am including the link to my tile on flickr. Not all that enthralled with my shading, but I sure love this tangle. Thanks, Angie for designing it; and Linda Farmer for sharing it with the world!! Here’s the link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47514270@N02/8116693314/in/pool-35241465@N00/
That’s a really appealing tangle! I foresee using it a lot. Thanks so much, Angie.