How to draw MARASU

Today’s Marasu tangle is a Zentangle®-original from the group of “102 Tangles” from oh-so-long-ago when CZT certification training first began.

As of today we’re up to 158 “official tangles” and counting …

The name of this tangle MaRaSu comes from the names of Maria’s sisters Madeline, Rachel and Sue, if my deductions are spot on. Here’s a peek at Maria’s beautiful hint:

In recent years Rick and Maria and Zentangle HQ have published a “12 Days of Christmas” series and now it’s back for the third time.

Maria created a fabulously gorgeous illuminated letter “O” on a tile for the series. Each day the tile is featured in a different “frame” with that day’s tangle and the Zentangle blog post includes a sweet tale to go with. When you visit each “day”, be sure to click on the images to view the larger version. And take a moment or two to enjoy Maria’s beautiful illuminated letter and her calligraphy up close and almost-personal.

The tangle to be used on the Fourth Day was Marasu and the steps for tangling Marasu were included here.

Update 10/25/2017: CZT Margaret Bremner adds directions for tangling a “Double Marasu“.

For those interested in participating, here is the link to the beginning of Zentangle’s now traditional “12 Days of Zentangle Christmas” series which contains this year’s “rules”.

Thus far for 2016 the 12 Days’ tangles have included the following. Links to the original Zentangle blog post are first, second link to the how-to-draw instructions.

“On the x day of 3Zs, Bijou tangled me … ”

1. A tile full of tripoli! – Tripoli steps here
2. A fetching diva dancing –  Diva Dance steps here
3. Some winsome bits of shattuck – Shattuck steps here
4. Some marasu encircling – Marasu steps on this page
5. Gold, glowing tipples – Tipple steps here
6. Swirling molygon-ings – Molygon steps here
7. Dark and naughty knightsbridge – Knightsbridge steps here
8. Perky pokeleafs peeking – Pokeleaf steps here

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UPDATE December 10, 2018 – Project Pack #04. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2018 Edition series, in this Day 8 video starting at 10:43 CZT Julie Willand of Zentangle HQ demonstrates how to tangle Marasu.

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UPDATE April 19, 2020 – Project Pack #09. As part of the Spring has Sprung project pack, Julie Willand tangles Marasu on a Zendala tile and fills it with a fragment and with ‘Nzeppel.

UPDATE May 24, 2021 – Project Pack #14. As part of the Accessing the Artist Within project pack, Julie Willand tangles Pokeroot, Purk, Diva Dance, Cubine, and Marasu.

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Check out the tag zentangle for all of the Zentangle®-original tangles with online instructions.

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Zentangle Project Pack Summaries on TanglePatterns

1. November 2017: Introducing Sakura’s White Gelly Roll Pens
2. December 2017: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2017 Edition - A Stroll Down Memory Lane
3. June 2018: A Zentangle Ensemble
4. December 2018: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2018 Edition – Making a Zentangle Spinner
5. April 2019: Zentangle Cartouches
6. August 2019: No Mistakes
7. December 2019: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2019 Edition – Light and Shade
8. March 2020: Dancing in the Moonlight
9. April 2020: Spring has Sprung
10. July 2020: The Legend of Zentangle
11. September 2020: Fee-PHI-Fo-Fun!
12. December 2020: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2020 Edition - Zentangle Renaissance
13. April 2021: Layers and Transitions
14. May 2021: Accessing the Artist Within
15. September 2021: Alphaborders, Letter Forms, Alphabets and the Birth of Zentangle
16. December 2021: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2021 Edition - Keeping Score
17. March 2022: The Kaleidoscope of Our Lives
18. Coming August 2022: Uncharted Zentangle Territories

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1. January - February 2021: The Basics of the Zentangle Method

Related Links

1. Looking for tangles by Artist or Type? For details visit the ABOUT > HOW TO FIND TANGLES BY ARTIST OR TYPE page on the top menu bar of any page on the site.
2. What is a Zentangle? — if you are new to the Zentangle Method, start here for the fundamentals.
3. Zentangle terminology — a glossary of terms used in this art form.
4. 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.
5. "A Zentangle has no up or down and is not a picture of something, so you have no worries about whether you can draw a hand, or a duck. You always succeed in creating a Zentangle." Thus patterns that are drawings of a recognizable naturalistic or actual object, figure, or scene, are not tangles. A pattern is not always a tangle — here's what makes a tangle. TIP: tangles never start with pencil planning.
   • Un motif n’est pas toujours un tangle — Qu’est-ce qu’un tangle ?
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6. How to submit your pattern deconstruction to TanglePatterns
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