How to draw MERIBERRIES

Meriberries is a lovely new tangle from CZT Cheryl Wilson and how perfect for this festive season.

Quite some time ago Cheryl contributed her Kandy Ribnz to our collection and it’s nice to see her back with another great tangle.

She writes,

I did not set out to create a new tangle, but I found that as I continued to draw, it created itself. I reminds me of holly, thus the name.

This tangle grows randomly and is built on itself, but it could easily be used as a border or ribbon.

I have shaded and embellished a few different ways in my sample tiles. That, of course, only leads to more ways yet to try.

Meriberries uses a few of Zentangle’s elemental strokes: a dot, straight-ish line, a curve, and orbs. It’s SO easy and fun! For my example I chose the variation Cheryl demonstrates in her third Zentangle but it was tough making a choice because they’re all lovely. Shading and embellishing different ways also gives more variations as Cheryl notes.

I suggest you’ll get the prettiest results with Meriberries when you make the pen dots in Cheryl’s Step 1 very light, just as a guide rather than a larger orb that becomes part of the tangle. Unless that’s what you’re going for … 🙂

Cheryl illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Meriberries here on her blog and she shows several ways to vary her tangle including a pretty border version. {Tip: click on the Steps image to get the larger size.}

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Check out the tag cherylw for more of Cheryl’s tangles on TanglePatterns.com.

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