This lovely tangle pattern, Rouche, is from new tangler Rose Brown and it’s her first on the site.
“I’m new to the art of Zentangle®, but I’m definitely a quick disciple! I started [Rouche] thinking about Chinese lanterns and Christmas ornaments – very stream of consciousness, kind of like Zentangles themselves. It ended up being reminiscent of ribbons and fabric, all twisted together and winding around themselves, which I was happy about. It really just emerged as I continued to work on it.”
In this example you can see that Rouche looks equally interesting from a different angle. It’s a very versatile tangle and I really enjoyed drawing it, especially the swirly ribbon bits. Rouche would make a great monotangle with all its possibilities for shading and fills.
Rose writes,
“I’m a life long resident of Massachusetts where I live with my husband and daughter. I have always been a doodler – it is what helps me concentrate. When my mother introduced me to Zentangle, it was so reminiscent of how my doodling has worked, it was a natural flow for me to move into the more ‘structured’ method of tangling. I love pen and ink drawing, and discovering Zentangle has been a terrific creative outlet for me.“
Thank you so much Rose, for pointing out just one of the ways the practice of Zentangle is so different from doodles. 🙂
Here are Rose’s step-by-step instructions for drawing Rouche and her Zentangle featuring her tangle.
Image copyright the artist 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.
Thanks for sharing a great tangle with us, Rose.
Check out the tag roseb for more of Rose’s patterns on TanglePatterns.com.
A word about naming patterns
Excerpt from “Submit Your Pattern” …
As Rick and Maria have written, “we describe Zentangle’s method as ‘non-representational.’ It’s also why (for the most part) we give our tangles names that have little relationship with what a tangle looks like.”
See if you can come up with a great “non-representational” name for your tangle too. Be creative!
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May 7, 2012 | 
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Love this one, thanks for sharing, can’t wait to give it a go.
This is lovely, Rose. A true Zentangle pattern….thoughtful, yet repetitive… No graph paper, rulers or trigonometry required :-)… BRAVA! And Thank You!
Super good tangle, Rose. Thank you for the tangle & the great example, too.
Very beautiful. Love it!
Rose,
Thank you very much for your wonderful step by step
instructions.
Kay
This is a fun one to do, very nice!
Thank you for this pattern. I have tried it following your great diagrams and found it easy.
I’d like to thank Rose for a lovely pattern and instructions that make it so easy to understand.At first glance I was a bit worried I’d get lost in the details but you walked me thrown this in a quick and easy way. I’ve always had a problem will a reading disablity and I sometimes get a little lost with some of the patterns at first but this was a joy to learn. Thanks again Rose! Thank Linda for putting all these great patterns and insturctions all in one place!
What a gorgeous pattern! I just tried it and I love it… Instead of drawing the last strokes behind the first (diagonal ones), I just overlapped them. Really fun to draw, and it looks much more difficult than it was. Thanks for sharing!