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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UPDATE August 8, 2023 – Project Pack #21. As part of the Organic Tangles: Tangles of a Botanical Nature project pack, Molly tangles a Squidahlia using Squid, Purk (12:16) and Shattuck (17:26) in this video:
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UPDATE December 2, 2023 – Project Pack #22. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2023 Edition project pack, Molly and Martha tangle Crescent Moon (4:38) , Tripoli (13:29), Purk (22:28), Cadent (34:58) and Jonqal (41:29) on their 5byPhive prestrung tile:
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UPDATE May 15, 2024 – As part of Zentangle’s 21-Day project honoring Mental Health Awareness Month this year, on Day 6 Maria tangles Purk in this video.
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UPDATE December 17, 2024 – Project Pack #25. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2024 Edition – Drawing Behind project pack, Maria tangles Hollibaugh, Purk, Quib and Vega on a Phi tile in this video:
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UPDATE May 24, 2025 – As part of Zentangle’s 2025 Mental Health Awareness Month Challenge, Martha tangles Purk in this video:
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For a complete list of Zentangle’s Project Packs click the PROJECT PACKS link in the pink alphabetic tangle menu bar.
Check out the tag zentangle for more Zentangle®-original tangles on TanglePatterns.com.
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nice to meet them! (Great Shoes!) {:-D
Thanks for posting the video. It’s great to see a Zentangle done in real time.
I just love this tangle, and the shading really makes the tangle go wild!
I know I saw this tangle before looking at some of Maria’s work, but I had no idea what they called it. This is such a cute pattern. While I was watching the video on how to Draw Purk, I was sitting at my computer with my sketchbook and pencil and now I have a sampler on how to draw this.
This is so cute, Maria and Rick. Nice of you two to show it on a video.
Watching Maria draw is like watching a magician at work. Great video.
I absolutely LOVE this tangle! This video is SO excellent – it really does make it look simple and is the perfect example of their theme, “Anything is possible one stroke at a time” (or something like that; not sure if that’s the exact phrase). I wouldn’t have thought to do the ovals in a line from one section to another the way she does – I had tried to do it by doing all of the ovals in one section, then going to the next section. This method gives FAR superior results!
Linda, thank you so much for all the work you do in helping people learn how to do the many different tangles! It is much-appreciated!
There is nothing to compare to watching Maria draw.
Watching her actually do the tangle step by step is mesmerizing!!! Love it! and Linda, i too want to thank you so much for all the effort you put into this site.
Dear Linda – I was looking for a refresher on drawing Purk and found this post. Wonderful to hear Rick and Maria talking about the Zentangle way. Thank you – John