Rain is one of the Zentangle®-original tangles and it makes a great border tangle. Rain can be drawn with irregular zigzags or very precise ones and each produces attractive effects.
Maria tells us Rain was inspired by a design she and Rick saw on pottery in an Iranian exhibit in the Louvre on a trip to Paris. They playfully shuffled the letters spelling “Iran” into Rain.
UPDATE December 9, 2018 – Project Pack #04. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2018 Edition series, in this Day 7 video starting at 02:26 Rick demonstrates how to tangle Rain.
Having lived in Iran for a couple of years in my early teens and before everything there went so haywire, I’m SO pleased to hear Maria pronounce the country’s name correctly.
CZT® Suzanne McNeill shows us how to draw Rain with step-by-step instructions here. Suzanne illustrates the pattern repeated side-by-side making this a good filler tangle too.
UPDATE: Early in the Summer of 2014 Suzanne McNeill’s blog was removed and all the posts and images were lost. Suzanne has graciously given me permission to post her copyright-protected images on TanglePatterns for your convenience.
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Guest Zentangle by Jella Verelst
Here is a beautiful example of Rain within a Zentangle. This is the work of CZT® Jella Verelst from Belgium, and is shown on TanglePatterns.com with her permission.
Jella owns PaperArtStudio and teaches Zentangle® as meditative art form. She tells me she creates her Zentangles in complete silence, and I think that total focus definitely shows in her art. If you live in or near Belgium and want to take a workshop with a master, you can find her workshop calendar here.
A Zentangle® by Jella Verelst incorporating the Rain tangle pattern. Copyright the artist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Used with permission.
Check out the tag zentangle for more Zentangle®-original tangles, and jellav for more of her Zentangles on TanglePatterns.com.
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This pattern is very neat!!!
Very interesting. Will get addicted ti theses drawing. Thx.
I have “doodled” all my life. I came upon the name “zentangle” only recently, but I find them most absorbing and even comforting. Sometimes they even speak to me, in a way, telling me where they would like to go. Sometimes I will lead but they always have their own input. I have even framed and sold some 8×10’s. A least, that keeps me in pens and inks! I really enjoyed this site.