How to draw PRINTEMPS and CRAZY PRINTEMPS

Printemps is an original Zentangle® tangle introduced by Maria Thomas.

Spring(s)! What a fun name for a fun tangle. This one took me a lot of practice and at long last I’ve replaced my first attempt. Printemps is one of the first tangles to appear on the site when I launched it in May 2010. And of course Printemps is French for Spring.

CZT® Suzanne McNeill gives us her illustrated instructions and her version of Printemps below. UPDATE: Early in the Summer of 2014 Suzanne McNeill’s blog was removed and all the posts and images were lost. The site is being reconstructed as much as possible but the links will no longer be the same. Many of her patterns on TanglePatterns can quite easily be figured out. For those that might be a little more difficult, Suzanne has graciously given me permission to post her copyright-protected images on TanglePatterns for your convenience.

Image © DESIGN ORIGINALS by Suzanne McNeill and used with permission, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Please feel free to refer to the step outs to recreate this tangle in your Zentangles and ZIAs, or link back to this page. However the artist and TanglePatterns.com reserve all rights to these images and they should not be pinned, reproduced or republished. Thank you for respecting these rights.

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UPDATE December 11, 2017 – Project Pack #2. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2017 Edition, Maria Thomas tangles a variation of Printemps (at 8:24).

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UPDATE September 5, 2018 – CZT Margaret Bremner includes Printemps in her “And then some” series demonstrating a few ways you can experiment with this Zentangle-original tangle.

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UPDATE December 9, 2018 – Project Pack #04. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2018 Edition series, Rick begins this Day 7 video demonstrating how to tangle Printemps.

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UPDATE April 2019 – Project Pack #05. In Day 8’s video, Maria demonstrates how to tangle “weighted Printemps“, beginning at 9:23.

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UPDATE March 3, 2020 – Project Pack #8. As part of the Dancing in the Moonlight project pack, CZT Julie Willand tangles Printemps, Bunzo and Knightsbridge using the new Sakura Moonlight Gelly Roll Pens on a prestrung Zendala tile.

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UPDATE March 4, 2020 – Project Pack #8. As part of the Dancing in the Moonlight project pack, with Rick keeping her company, Maria tangles Well, Mooka, Tripoli, a “Kite on a String” motif, Printemps, Gourdgeous, and Fife on several different black prestrung Zendala tiles:

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UPDATE July 18, 2020 – Project Pack #10. As part of The Legend of Zentangle project pack series, Maria tangles Printemps starting at 10:53 in this video.

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Julie Willand Demonstrates CRAZY PRINTEMPS

UPDATE July 22, 2020 – Project Pack #10. As part of The Legend of Zentangle project pack series, Julie Willand demonstrates how to tangle Crazy Printemps.

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UPDATE May 27, 2021 – Project Pack #14. As part of the Accessing the Artist Within project pack, Maria tangles the Dingsplatz technique with Purk and Printemps on the spread with the Thomas Merton quote, “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

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UPDATE December 14, 2021 – Project Pack #16. As part of the 12 Days of Zentangle – Keeping Score project pack, Martha tangles a Printemps variation at 17:04 in this video:

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UPDATE December 18, 2021 – Project Pack #16. As part of the 12 Days of Zentangle – Keeping Score project pack, Rick tangles Printemps at 10:28 in this video.

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UPDATE March 13, 2022 – Project Pack #17. As part of the The Kaleidoscope of Our Lives project pack, Martha tangles “a giant Printemps” at 17:44 in this video:

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UPDATE December 19, 2022 – Project Pack #19. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2022 Edition project pack, Martha tangles a weighted version of Printemps beginning at 29:51 in this video:

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UPDATE May 12, 2023 – As part of Zentangle’s 21-day challenge honoring May’s Mental Health Awareness month, Day 2’s Bijouism is Relax, and Julie tangles Printemps in this 9:36 minute limited audio video:

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UPDATE August 16, 2023 – Project Pack #21. As part of the Organic Tangles: Tangles of a Botanical Nature project pack, Molly and Martha create their Fee Fi Fo Foundabout specimen using Mooka, Printemps and Foundabout in this video:

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UPDATE December 5, 2023 – Project Pack #22. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2023 Edition project pack, Rick tangles Well and Printemps (29:31) 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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UPDATE December 10, 2023 – Project Pack #22. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2023 Edition project pack, Martha further develops the ensemble Molly worked on in Day 9, adding versions of Printemps in one of the spiral sections in this video:

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UPDATE March 19, 2024 – Project Pack #23. As part of the Birth of the Zentangle Method project pack, Julie Willand tangles Printemps and Keeko in this video:

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UPDATE May 25, 2024 – As part of Zentangle’s 21-Day project honoring Mental Health Awareness Month this year, on Day 16 Martha tangles Printemps in this video.

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UPDATE March 18, 2025 – Project Pack #26. As part of the The Elegance of Limits project pack, Maria tangles Scena, Printemps, Hollibaugh and introduces Scenabaugh in this video:

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PS – On the right is my newbie attempt from 2010. {blush}

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