How to draw MARNIE

Marnie is a tangle from UK tangler Chrissie Frampton who’s traveled to the US to become a CZT since her last tangle (Midnight) on the site. As with many people who become CZTs, Chrissie is not actively teaching currently but she is actively tangling. 🙂

Here in the US, the ABC TV show Dancing With the Stars is wildly popular and it’s a spin off of the UK’s BBC program Strictly Come Dancing, a Saturday night program that started in 2004. In fact “Strictly” has “DWTS” spin offs in many countries around the world, as I learned from reading about it on Wikipedia.

Strictly Come Dancing is responsible for today’s tangle pattern because Chrissie spotted this backdrop in one of the numbers on a recent broadcast and she’s deconstructed it for us to enjoy.

Here Chrissie describes how she arrived at her tangle’s name.

We have a judge on the contest called Darcey Bussell and when I was researching a name for this tangle, I used Wikipedia. 

Darcey is not her first birth name, it is Marnie. In fact she has several wonderful birth names. [She was born Marnie Mercedes Darcey Pemberton Crittle.]

Darcey Bussell’s biography is interesting to read as she’s had a wide and varied career in dance and entertainment. She was a professional ballerina who has made several guest appearances with the New York City Ballet; she is the author of a series of children’s books and is also a model. In 2012, she “performed at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics, descending from the roof of the Olympic stadium, in the role ‘spirit of the flame’, leading a troupe of 200 ballerinas.” She was awarded the OBE in 1995 and the CBE in 2006.

And now she has a tangle named after her.

When I was drawing Marnie, I found that it wasn’t always easy to get the two triangles of Steps 1 and 2 to meet up creating an evenly shaped diamond in the middle. So then I started simply drawing the small diamond at the center of each grid square, then adding the smaller triangles from the points of the diamond.

Chrissie illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Marnie here and she shows several ways to play with Marnie to create some very different variations.

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Check out the tag chrissief for more of Chrissie’s tangles on TanglePatterns.com.

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Tangle or Zentangle?

Often Zentangle newbies describe their drawings containing several patterns as "a tangle". Or conversely, refer to a tangle as "a Zentangle". Not so.

A tangle is one (1) single pattern. And there are guidelines about what qualifies as a tangle. For details visit ZENTANGLES > A PATTERN IS NOT ALWAYS A TANGLE on the top menu bar of any page.

A Zentangle is the finished art on a tile containing one or more tangles. A Zentangle containing just one tangle is called a monotangle.

And while we're on the subject of using this wonderful art form's terminology correctly, as for "Zentangling" or "Zentangled" the terms to use are tangling or tangled. 🙂

As described on zentangle.com, "In its verb form 'tangle' means to draw a tangle. You tangle a tangle, and in that process create Zentangle art."

Learn more by visiting the ZENTANGLES > ZENTANGLE TERMINOLOGY page on the top menu bar of any page.

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