Here’s another simple and lovely tangle pattern from South Africa’s Carla du Preez. She’s named this one Aura-Leah. You may recall that Carla recently added the fun Pop-Cloud tangle to our repertoire.
Carla writes “I love the flow and simplicity of the lines. It feels as if I am breathing deeply when I draw it. I learnt shading from Marizaan van Beek, CZT (a master shader!!!) The pattern is great as a monotangle or background.”
Here are Carla’s steps for drawing Aura-Leah and some written instructions to guide you.
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September 17, 2012 | 
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Love this new tangle. Flowers, leaves and flowing tangles are my favorite and the ones I find hardest to draw. This breakdown really makes it look easy. Thanks for sharing.
Wonderful!!!
That’s nice. That’s really, REALLY nice. The lines have such a lovely flow, and the resulting pattern is really beautiful. Thank you,Carla! I’m really going to enjoy using it.
Wow love it! It looks great to use it like a border or something, will try this one out! Thanks for creating it and sharing it with us!
Thank you so much for a graceful but easy leaf pattern. I think it will be good to fill up space or something to lead from one major tangle to another.
This pattern just flows out of my pen! Love it when that happens!
I love this tangle and especially because I was borm in South Africa.
Thank you for this pattern as Cali says born is SA. I live in Randburg. xxx
Am new to Zentangle and this is great.
This is a beautiful tangle. I will be using it often.
Thankyou
I love to add a leafy pattern to my Zentangles as it seems to add life and flow to the tangle. You have made it so easy and yet so beautiful. Thank you for the lovely pattern.
I really like the leafy pattern i think it is cool.
This is such a beautiful tangle….I love it! ??
There are so many ways you can take this tangle and flow with it.Very relaxing art to create .Just let your creativity take over and see where it goes.Thank you for this great idea!!!!
Me gusto mucho!!!!
Ya lo apliqué.
Muchas gracias.
Esto me encanta
Gra
Carla I had never tried this before. It is a great tangle! So relaxing and beautiful the way it can curl around itself..will definitely be using this one a lot!