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How to draw PURK

Zentangle pattern: Purk. Image © Linda Farmer and TanglePatterns.com. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. You may use this image for your personal non-commercial reference only. The unauthorized pinning, reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal.This is a Scrapbook Dimensions Magazine video interview with Zentangle® founders Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas from the recent 2011 Craft & Hobby Association show. In it Maria demonstrates how to draw the Zentangle®-original tangle Purk.

Her demonstration starts at 2:40 minutes into the video.

Enjoy!

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Update March 2013 – Visit this blog post to see some wonderful Purk-esque explorations by Maria.

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UPDATE December 13, 2018 – Project Pack #04. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2018 Edition series, in this Day 11 video starting at 3:51 Maria demonstrates how to tangle Purk as a ribbon or border-style tangle.

Day 11‘s video includes Knightsbridge, Scena, Purk, and Betweed.

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UPDATE July 18, 2020 – Project Pack #10. As part of The Legend of Zentangle project pack series, Maria tangles Purk starting at 36:26 in this video.

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UPDATE December 19, 2020 – Project Pack #12. As part of the 12 Days of Zentangle, 2020 Zentangle Renaissance project pack, Molly and Martha Festune, Purk and Stiritup on a Renaissance tan Phi tile.

UPDATE May 24, 2021 – Project Pack #14. As part of the Accessing the Artist Within project pack, Julie Willand tangles Pokeroot, Purk, Diva Dance, Cubine, and Marasu.

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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, Molly tangles Purk at 23:03 in this video:

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Check out the tag zentangle for more Zentangle®-original tangles on TanglePatterns.com.

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Zentangle Project Pack Summaries on TanglePatterns

For your convenience here are the links to all of my Zentangle Project Pack summaries:
  1. November 2017: Introducing Sakura’s White Gelly Roll Pens
  2. December 2017: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2017 Edition - A Stroll Down Memory Lane
  3. June 2018: A Zentangle Ensemble
  4. December 2018: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2018 Edition – Making a Zentangle Spinner
  5. April 2019: Zentangle Cartouches
  6. August 2019: No Mistakes
  7. December 2019: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2019 Edition – Light and Shade
  8. March 2020: Dancing in the Moonlight
  9. April 2020: Spring has Sprung
  10. July 2020: The Legend of Zentangle
  11. September 2020: Fee-PHI-Fo-Fun!
  12. December 2020: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2020 Edition - Zentangle Renaissance
  13. April 2021: Layers and Transitions
  14. May 2021: Accessing the Artist Within
  15. September 2021: Alphaborders, Letter Forms, Alphabets and the Birth of Zentangle
  16. December 2021: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2021 Edition - Keeping Score
  17. March 2022: The Kaleidoscope of Our Lives
  18. August 2022: Introducing Zentangle's new Translucen-Z Tiles
  19. December 2022: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2022 Edition - Zentomology
  20. March 17, 2023: Blossoming Tangles

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These are the links to my Zentangle Apprentice Project Pack summaries:
  1. January - February 2021: The Basics of the Zentangle Method
NOTE: You can always find the Project Pack Summaries by clicking on PROJECT PACKS on the pink alphabetic tangle menu bar. OR by looking in the left sidebar under TANGLES BY TYPE for the tag projectpack. OR on the ZENTANGLE PROJECT PACKS page on the ZENTANGLES tab on the top menu bar of any page on the site.

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