Here’s a fun new Zentangle®-original tangle named Diva Dance from Maria Thomas of Zentangle HQ, especially created to mark the occasion of this week’s 100th Weekly Challenge run by Canadian CZT Laura Harms, aka Diva.
Congratulations to Laura and all the CZTs who have helped her keep the weekly challenge going and reaching this impressive landmark!
What’s really great about Diva Dance is it comes in three variations based on the Waltz, the Foxtrot, and Rock ‘n’ Roll. They’re all dead simple to draw and are just plain fun to really get immersed in.
I’ve used the Foxtrot variation for my example above. Below are the Waltz variation on the left, and Rock ‘n’ Roll on the right.
The possibilities with all three variations are endless and I’ll bet this tangle will soon become a widely-used favorite.
Maria’s step-by-step instructions for drawing Diva Dance are here on Laura’s blog. There you’ll also find the complete background story on the new tangle. And for more beautiful examples of Diva Dance by Maria, visit this issue of the Zentangle newsletter.
Congratulations again to Laura, and here’s to the next 100!
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Update December 14, 2017 – Project Pack #02. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2017 Edition, in this Day 4 video (13:29) Rick tangles Diva Dance on a Zentangle Apprentice tile.
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UPDATE December 4, 2018 – Project Pack #04. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2018 Edition series, this Day 2 video begins with Rick demonstrating how to tangle Diva Dance.
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UPDATE April 23, 2020 – Project Pack #09. As part of the Spring has Sprung project pack, with Rick keeping her company, Maria tangles Diva Dance with some interesting add-ins.
Check out the tag zentangle for all of the Zentangle®-original tangles with online instructions.
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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 to date:
- November 2017: Introducing Sakura’s White Gelly Roll Pens
- December 2017: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2017 Edition - A Stroll Down Memory Lane
- June 2018: A Zentangle Ensemble
- December 2018: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2018 Edition – Making a Zentangle Spinner
- April 2019: Zentangle Cartouches
- August 2019: No Mistakes
- December 2019: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2019 Edition – Light and Shade
- March 2020: Dancing in the Moonlight
- April 2020: Spring has Sprung
- July 2020: The Legend of Zentangle
- September 2020: Fee-PHI-Fo-Fun!
- December 2020: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2020 Edition - Zentangle Renaissance
- January - February 2021: The basics of the Zentangle Method
NOTE: You can always find the Project Pack Summaries by looking under ZENTANGLES on the top menu bar for the ZENTANGLE PROJECT PACKS page. OR by looking in the left sidebar under TANGLES BY TYPE for the tag projectpack.
Related Links
- Linda's List of Zentangle-Original Patterns — here is the complete list of original tangles (aka "official tangles") created and introduced by founders Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas, including those not published online. If you are new to the Zentangle Method I highly recommend learning a few of the published Zentangle classics first.
- A pattern is not always a tangle — here's what makes a tangle.
- Un motif n’est pas toujours un tangle — Qu’est-ce qu’un tangle ?
- Un diseño no es siempre un tangle — ¿Qué es un tangle?
- How to submit your pattern deconstruction to TanglePatterns
- Zentangle terminology — a glossary of terms used in this art form
- For lots of great FREE tutorials on TanglePatterns, click on the TUTORIALS link in the pink alphabetic menu bar below the tangle images at the top of any page
- Strings! Have we got STRINGS! Click on the STRINGS link in the pink alphabetic menu bar below the tangle images at the top of any page for 250 different (free) Zentangle-starters. More than enough for any lifetime!
- What is a Zentangle? — if you are new to the Zentangle Method, start here for the fundamentals
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December 19, 2012 | 
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These two people are so wildly creative, my hat’s off to them.
Really like this one. Maria’s work is the best!
I can’t access LauraH’s website from my computer at work all of a sudden.
I will have to try from home. This is such a cute Tangle pattern. It looks simular to a wood grain.
A really versatile pattern. I like the Sproing from the Project Pack #02 video and did a Bijou tile with it.