Ahh is one of the Zentangle®-original tangle patterns.
I’m cheating here a bit, there are no online instructions for drawing this tangle but it’s universal enough that I figured you can work it out.
I’ve seen Ahh done with and without the dots or orbs at the end of the strokes, both are simple and make great fillers. Looks a bit like fireworks — Happy 4th all!
On the right is my original Ahh image from 2010 when I first started the site, and Zentangle.
Update January 12, 2018: I used three little dots as a bit of a background in my examples way back whenever. (If I recall correctly sometime later Margaret Bremner called this Tri-dots.) This has just been named as a tangle: Therefore (like the Math symbol) by Maria Thomas in the Mosaic App.
Check out the tag zentangle for more Zentangle®-original tangles on TanglePatterns.com.
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- 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.
- 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.
- "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 ?
- Un diseño no es siempre un tangle — ¿Qué es un tangle?
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Thank you so much for posting these patterns. I intend to train as a CZT but can’t at the moment. These give meva basis for learning until I can get to Rhode Island. I am beginning a notebook forvreference will all tyese in it…ones that I have worked myself. Again, thanks so much for the postings.
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Hi Linda,
Many thanks for the website with incredible information. I learned about such “zentangle” at a public library. I first wasn’t sure if I want to “”waste”” my time to even looking into it – Zentangle??? What’s THAT??? My friend told me :”Phuong, it won’t kill you. Let’s go over there and sit down” I hesitated and now I’m WOW! I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the art and my friend’s advice. Everything I look at is — zentangle pattern. I’m soooo GLAD that I found your site and can’t stop reading everything on this site. Where does the time go? I got to do this and that… So I have to stop to do some house chores and errands. Till next visit on the site, I THANK YOU Linda for your generosity.
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Hi Linda,
Thank you so much for your website, I have to attend hospital and Drs appointments with my parents the waiting time some times is hours, so I now take pen and paper, it relaxes me and the time flies. Thanks again, for all your detailed information.
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I love this one! Lots of light, feeling of happiness.
I am so grateful to find your website. Thank you for all the loving kindness you share with your tangles.
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