How to draw ZENITH

The lovely Zenith tangle is the latest Zentangle®-original, introduced in April this year at CZT training seminars 18 and 19.

Zenith is elegantly simple, composed of Zentangle’s elemental strokes of a curve and a straight line. And an aura and an orb here and there. Not only is Zenith a very easy tangle to draw, but I think you will be quite amazed at the wide variety of variations possible with these few simple elements.

Rick and Maria introduce Zenith here in their newsletter. They also show several tiles developed when demonstrating Zenith at the seminar, including a striking all-over pattern variation on a black Zentangle tile.

As it turns out, Zenith became number 150 in the list of official tangles.

Update March 19, 2018 – Sakura produced this 16-minute video featuring CZT Molly Hollibaugh tangling Zenith with a White Sakura Gelly Roll pen on a Black Zentangle tile.

Rick and Maria also introduce us to Hawaiian CZT Jason Poole and Zentangle Hula, a song Jason wrote for his graduating class, CZT17 in November 2014. In this song Jason’s lyrics put together everything that’s important in Zentangle, with a little hula rhythm. enjoy!

{written and performed by Jason Poole, CZT © 2014 Zentangle, Inc.}

UPDATE December 7, 2018 – Project Pack #04. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2018 Edition series, in this Day 5 video at 03:38 Maria demonstrates how to tangle Zenith.

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UPDATE December 8, 2024 – Project Pack #25. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2024 Edition – Drawing Behind project pack, Martha and Molly tangle Verdigogh, Meer, Snail, Tripoli, Zenith and Vega on a Phi tile in this video:

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Check out the tag zentangle for more Zentangle-original (aka “official”) tangles 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

1. Looking for tangles by Artist or Type? For details visit the ABOUT > HOW TO FIND TANGLES BY ARTIST OR TYPE page on the top menu bar of any page on the site.
2. What is a Zentangle? — if you are new to the Zentangle Method, start here for the fundamentals.
3. Zentangle terminology — a glossary of terms used in this art form.
4. How to use the site — an excellent free video tutorial showing how to use the site as well as pointing out lots of useful features you might have missed.
5. Linda's List of Zentangle-Original Patterns — here is the complete list of original tangles (aka "official tangles") created and introduced by founders Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas, including those not published online. If you are new to the Zentangle Method I highly recommend learning a few of the published Zentangle classics first.
6. "A Zentangle has no up or down and is not a picture of something, so you have no worries about whether you can draw a hand, or a duck. You always succeed in creating a Zentangle." Thus patterns that are drawings of a recognizable naturalistic or actual object, figure, or scene, are not tangles. A pattern is not always a tangle — here's what makes a tangle. TIP: tangles never start with pencil planning.
   • Un motif n’est pas toujours un tangle — Qu’est-ce qu’un tangle ?
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7. How to submit your pattern deconstruction to TanglePatterns
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