How to draw SAND SWIRL

Here’s another tangle pattern I just love and I think you will too.

Sand Swirl is simple, it’s flexible, and it’s mesmerizing to draw. It’s great fun to shade too.

Sand Swirl is from Karry Heun who shared her Summer Sitter tangle with us earlier this year.

This tangle is so much fun to draw and in true Zentangle® style, there’s no thinking or planning involved. There’s one “stem” stroke, as Karry calls it, and then as many auras as you feel like. The easiest way to grow Sand Swirl is to keep turning your Zentangle tile as you add more stems and auras.

Here is Karry’s step-by-step illustration for drawing Sand Swirl. Thanks for a great tangle, Karry!

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UPDATE December 14, 2020 – Project Pack #12. As part of the 12 Days of Zentangle, 2020 Zentangle Renaissance project pack, Julie Willand tangles Sand Swirl on a 3Z Renaissance tan tile.

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UPDATE 08/18/2022 – Project Pack #18. As part of the Introducing Zentangle’s new Translucen-Z Tiles project pack, Julie Willand tangles Sand Swirl in this video:

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UPDATE December 6, 2023 – Project Pack #22. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2023 Edition project pack, Julie Willand tangles Karry Heun’s Sand Swirl together with Pokeroot, Printemps and fragment T5 (page 115, Zentangle Primer Vol. 1) on a prestrung 5byPhive tile in this video:

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Check out the tag karryh for more of Karry’s patterns on TanglePatterns.com.

For a complete list of Zentangle’s Project Packs click the PROJECT PACKS link in the pink alphabetic tangle menu bar.

Related Links

If you’ve just joined us recently and would like some help with shading your Zentangles or Zentangle-inspired art (ZIA), check out the TanglePatterns Shading Mini-Clinic:

1. TanglePatterns Shading Mini-Clinic, Part 1 – by CZT® Marizaan van Beek
2. TanglePatterns Shading Mini-Clinic, Part 2 – by CZT® Sandy Steen Bartholomew

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Zentangle Project Pack Summaries on TanglePatterns

For your convenience here are the links to all of my Zentangle Project Pack summaries:

1. November 2017: Introducing Sakura’s White Gelly Roll Pens
2. December 2017: Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2017 Edition - A Stroll Down Memory Lane
3. June 2018: A Zentangle Ensemble
4. December 2018: Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2018 Edition – Making a Zentangle Spinner
5. April 2019: Zentangle Cartouches
6. August 2019: No Mistakes
7. December 2019: Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2019 Edition – Light and Shade
8. March 2020: Dancing in the Moonlight
9. April 2020: Spring has Sprung
10. July 2020: The Legend of Zentangle
11. September 2020: Fee-PHI-Fo-Fun!
12. December 2020: Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2020 Edition - Zentangle Renaissance
13. April 2021: Layers and Transitions
14. May 2021: Accessing the Artist Within
15. September 2021: Alphaborders, Letter Forms, Alphabets and the Birth of Zentangle
16. December 2021: Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2021 Edition - Keeping Score
17. March 2022: The Kaleidoscope of Our Lives
18. August 2022: Introducing Zentangle's new Translucen-Z Tiles
19. December 2022: Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2022 Edition - Zentomology
20. March 2023: Blossoming Tangles
21. August 2023: Organic Tangles: Tangles of a Botanical Nature
22. December 2023: Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2023 Edition - Exploring the Spiral
23. March 2024: The Birth of the Zentangle Method
24. August 2024: Crescent Moon & Aura
25. December 2024: Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2024 Edition - Drawing Behind

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These are the links to my Zentangle Apprentice Project Pack summaries:

1. January - February 2021: The Basics of the Zentangle Method

NOTE: You can always find the Project Pack Summaries by clicking on PROJECT PACKS on the pink alphabetic tangle menu bar. OR by looking in the left sidebar under TANGLES BY TYPE for the tag projectpack. OR on the ZENTANGLE PROJECT PACKS page on the ZENTANGLES tab on the top menu bar of any page on the site.

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