How to draw SUNSUN

Sunsun is a new ribbon or border style tangle from Moze Wu who’s from the city of Shantou in the Guangdong province of China. This is her first tangle on the site.

Moze introduces herself and explains how she learned about Zentangle® as well as the origins of her Sunsun tangle:

I am a 29-year-old woman who is looking forward to play a wonderful melody with Zentangle 🙂 I learned Zentangle about 10 months ago in the instruction of Damy Teng and Shin-ya CZT#17. 

Sunsun comes from decorative pattern in a beautiful balcony I saw in Thailand, on a wonderful sunny day. The Number 3 in Chinese is pronounced exactly like sun in English. So I name it Sunsun (33).

I used the number 3 (with its mirrored image) and connected them with straight lines. And it is also interesting to find that other numbers (I tried 2, 5, 6) can also be used for variations.“

It is fun to come up with tangles based on using numbers or letters of the alphabet and we have quite a few examples on the site already. For my example I stuck with a simple graphite fill between the columns but in her Zentangle tile below Moze demonstrates some pretty tangle-y ways of embellishing Sunsun.

Moze illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Sunsun below. In her first tile she has included her experiment with the numbers 3, 5 and 6 which all produce graphically interesting designs.

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This is Moze’s pretty tile using the Zentangle-original tangles Printemps and Shattuck within the Sunsun bands drawn in a Hollibaugh-fashion with a delicate and interesting result.

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5. 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.
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Armchair Sports Update

Robert and I’ve been following Barclay’s Premier League soccer broadcasts the last couple of years on TV, and Leicester City Football Club (LCFC) is his favorite childhood sports team – we’re talking 50+ years or so ago. (BTW, Leicester is pronounced “Less-ter”, accent on first syllable.) So guess what? At 5,000-to-1 odds, they’ve just won the Championship for the first time in their 100+ year history!! Enjoy this hilarious song …

And next up for our armchair viewing (after the NBA Playoffs and Finals of course) … Le Tour de France!

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