With Valentine’s Day coming up this Saturday, it seems fitting to focus on some could-be-related tangles this week. Heart patterns aren’t just for Valentine’s, they’d be great on any type of Zentangle®inspired greeting card you might be creating. Or on a traditional Zentangle any old time.
Did you know you can find TANGLES BY TYPE on the site? I’ve just added the new tag hearts and if you look for the TANGLES BY TYPE heading in the left sidebar, you can click the tag you’re interested in and be taken to a page containing that collection of tangles.
Australian Helen Williams has a lovely touch with her drawings and although she doesn’t normally use Zentangle® terminology or techniques, she creates some lovely “drawing patterns” that often qualify as tangle patterns. (For more on that see “A pattern is not always a tangle“.) Last year Helen posted some Valentine’s-related patterns and Heartfully is one of those.
A grid with four simple conjoined hearts in each square, Heartfully is a very easy tangle to draw. It invites a variety of fills in the positive and negative spaces as well as shading, and auras and additional strokes as you’ll see in her pretty examples.
Helen illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Heartfully here on her blog.
Check out the tag helenw for more of Helen’s tangles on TanglePatterns.com.
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When I see your name, Helen, I know I will be looking at something beautiful! I’m making a valentine for my sweetheart and this is just perfect! Thanks for sharing your beautiful art.