How to draw N-MESHED

This week we’re starting out with a tangle pattern that while simple to draw, can be just a little tricky.

N-Meshed is by fellow Floridian Linda Rainsford, and it’s her first on the site.

She writes, “I saw  two intersecting diamonds on a tattoo on a TV show and started playing around with it and came up with this pattern. I enjoy using it because it is just four strokes repeated.“

“I first saw Zentangle® on an episode of ‘Scrapbook Memories’ about three years ago, and as they say, ‘the rest is history.’  I was instantly hooked!

I am retired and living in Ormond Beach, Florida.  I spend a lot of my time caring for my 89 year old mom. Zentangle has been such a blessing to me because it can fit into any little corner of time and be done anywhere—not to mention the stress relief it provides.“

The challenge for me in drawing N-Meshed is keeping the diamond shapes consistent in size. Linda also offers tips on how to keep them aligned because the whole works can go wonky if you don’t. I added the little dot in my example just for fun (and to restrain myself from adding shading).

Once again a reminder to be mindful and be deliberate with each stroke. If you rush, you’ll end up with N-Mushed 😉

Here are Linda’s step-by-step instructions for drawing N-Meshed and two very nice Zentangles 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.

Check out the tag lindar for more of Linda’s patterns on TanglePatterns.com.

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