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How to draw WELL

Zentangle pattern: Well. Image © Linda Farmer and TanglePatterns.com. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. You may use this image for your personal non-commercial reference only. The unauthorized pinning, reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal.Well is a new original tangle pattern from Zentangle HQ and for the record, my example here is Well at its very basic bones, wait until you see what can be done with this.

The inspiration for Well comes from a trip to a local museum,

Near our home is the Higgins Armory Museum, which specializes in medieval armor and weaponry. On a recent pattern search there, I saw a small box covered with what look like wrought metal patterns,” writes Zentangle® co-founder Rick Roberts.

This box looked like a treasure chest that would hold jewels. How about jewel for a name? We didn’t go with that because it’s potentially too descriptive of an expected outcome. However it was a good enough inspiration to give us well. This name has an added benefit of offering opportunities for fun word play, which we love.

Well is actually very similar to two very popular tangles from earlier this year by CZTs. The first is Peg Farmer’s Yew-Dee drawn without the curved lines in her Step 2. The second is Jana Rogers’ Fiore with the exception that Well begins with a circle in the middle of the grid “seed” in place of Jana’s square. Jana’s Fiore was inspired by the article about using grid seeds to develop tangles.

In the illustrations for Well, Rick also reminds us how turning the seed in various directions within the basic grid produces a variety of results from the same pattern.

Zentangle pattern: Well. Image © Linda Farmer and TanglePatterns.com. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. You may use this image for your personal non-commercial reference only. The unauthorized pinning, reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal.Maria illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Well here in the recent Zentangle newsletter along with several Zentangles by Rick and Maria showing some possibilities with this tangle. (You can view larger images of their Zentangles featuring Well here on the blog.) In my second example here on the right, I’ve done a riff on Maria’s interpretation Zentangle with her cool trompe l’oeil. Both links include a photo of the box inspiring the tangle. Well, that’s it for today! 😉

UPDATE December 3, 2018 – Project Pack #4. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2018 Edition series, in this Day 1 video starting at 13:45 Martha Huggins demonstrates how to tangle Well.

UPDATE March 2, 2020 – Project Pack #8. As part of the Dancing in the Moonlight project pack, Rick tangles Well using the new Sakura Moonlight Gelly Roll Pens:

UPDATE March 4, 2020 – Project Pack #8. As part of the Dancing in the Moonlight project pack, with Rick keeping her company, Maria tangles Well, Mooka, Tripoli, a “Kite on a String” motif, Printemps, Gourdgeous, and Fife on several different black prestrung Zendala tiles:

UPDATE March 7, 2020 – Project Pack #8. As part of the Dancing in the Moonlight project pack, Maria tangles Well on six Renaissance Tan 3Z tiles using the new Sakura Moonlight Gelly Roll Pens:

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UPDATE July 24, 2020 – Project Pack #10. As part of The Legend of Zentangle project pack series, Martha tangles Well at 39:40.

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UPDATE September 24, 2020 – Project Pack #11. As part of the Fee-PHI-Fo-Fun! project pack, Molly and Martha use Ing as a reticulum on the new Phi tiles and each fills their tile with a different fragment. Martha uses Well on her tile.

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UPDATE September 25, 2020 – Project Pack #11. As part of the Fee-PHI-Fo-Fun! project pack, Maria tangles Well as one of two fragments on her Phi tile.

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UPDATE December 13, 2020 – Project Pack #12. As part of the 12 Days of Zentangle, 2020 Zentangle Renaissance project pack, Rick tangles Well on a square Renaissance tan tile.

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UPDATE May 26, 2021 – Project Pack #14. As part of the Accessing the Artist Within project pack, Rick tangles Well on the spread with the Nietzsche quote “The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

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UPDATE May 29, 2021 – Project Pack #14. As part of the Accessing the Artist Within project pack, Maria tangles tangles Tripoli filled with Well, and “Feathered Fescu” on a square white Zentangle tile instead of in the Tangle Musings booklet.

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UPDATE March 23, 2022 – Project Pack #17. As part of the The Kaleidoscope of Our Lives project pack, Maria tangles tiles with three different versions of Well in this video:

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UPDATE March 25, 2022 – Project Pack #17. As part of the The Kaleidoscope of Our Lives project pack, Rick tangles Well in this video as Maria did above on the previous day, “same tangle, totally different style, totally different approach.

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UPDATE May 6, 2022Mental Health Awareness Month #WELLBeing

Zentangle HQ writes:

In honor of #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth and improving our overall wellbeing, we are going to set out on an exploration of the tangle well. These short tutorials are meant to provide small burst of inspiration to relax and focus your mind. Join us throughout the month as we put pen to paper with intention and take small, yet powerful, steps towards our own #WELLbeing.

#WELLBeing: Part 1

In the first short video (06:45) in this special series, Maria tangles Well on a Renaissance Tan Zentangle tile. And BTW, the video is intentionally silent so you can focus on your tangling without distracting voices or music. (Perfect for OCD types like … me! #WELLbeing)

#WELLBeing: Part 2 – May 13

In the second short video (07:16) in this special series, Maria tangles Well on a White Zentangle tile.

#WELLBeing: Part 3, May 20

In the third short video (06:32) in this special series, Maria tangles Well on a white Zentangle tile.

#WELLBeing: Part 4, May 27

In the fourth short video (07:22) “More Well-ness“, in this special series, Maria tangles Well on a white Zentangle tile.

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#WELLbeing: Part 5 – May 31

In the fifth and final short video (07:47) “Being Well“, in this special series, Maria tangles Well on a Zentangle tile.

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UPDATE December 5, 2023 – Project Pack #22. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2023 Edition project pack, Rick tangles Well and Printemps (29:31) in this video:

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11 comments to How to draw WELL

  • Hi, I am totally new and totally hooked, so much so that I am busy finalising my flights from South Africa to attend the November CZT, just too many questions in my head!
    I love this new pattern, wow! And what an awesome job Rick & Maria have done to showcase how to draw it and offer prompts for creating variations.
    As I am sitting here playing with it though, I wondered, at what point would it no longer be called WELL, you know what I mean? For example, I love the one variation with the “swirls” going in the same direction, before the “petals” are added. So my question, if one omits the petals, is it no longer called “WELL”? (Now I am showing you my total ignorance I know, but it can only get better). (Thank you for all your wonderful work Linda!).

  • Sue Agnew

    I just love the heading: “how to draw well” 🙂

  • Josie

    Omg! This is my new favriote pattern! In school for dorm work we learned zentangles and now were doing a project called “Cats in the Attick” Where we make cats and put them in an attick themed backround! Im so gonna use it!

  • Karen Carriere

    I would really like to learn this saw it on the view

  • This one is fantastic! So versatile and really easy to draw. I love it! Thank you!

  • Beautiful pattern to be used for Reticula and Fragments.

  • Linda Farmer, CZT

    Follow Zentangle’s Mental Health Awareness Month project #WELLbeing on this page throughout the month of May. Each of the videos are being added as they are released so you can easily find them and follow along. #WELLBeing: Part 1 and #WELLBeing: Part 2 have already been added above.

  • Linda Farmer, CZT

    Added the new video #WELLbeing: Part 3 to the page today.

  • Linda Farmer, CZT

    Added the new video #WELLbeing: Part 4 to the page today.

  • Linda Farmer, CZT

    Added the “fifth and final” installment of the #WELLbeing series to the page today.

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