How to draw ABUKAS

California CZT Charlotte Carpentier’s pretty Abukas tangle was inspired by CZT Lynn Mead’s Abeko and CZT Molly Hollibaugh’s Arukas.

Abukas looks festive with its simple auras around the teardrop shapes and some orb embellishments. Perfect for your holiday greeting cards, place cards, gift tags and so on.

Charlotte resides south of Los Angeles in Temecula, California. She writes that she’s “been making ‘stuff’ for a very long time. She started drawing and sewing at a very young age, and after the Navy trained her as a micro-miniature repair tech (circuit board repair, soldering) she fell in love with playing with metal. And…being ADD, she keeps finding other cool things. In 2013, she found Zentangle® and changed her stars.”

Abukas starts with a large orb in the middle of the Zentangle tile section, then as many tear drops as you desire to balance around its circumference while leaving enough space between them to add the Arukas effect. I chose four tear drops for my example because I love the overall star look of it. Larger spaces and a larger central orb allow for more drops, of course.

Abukas is Charlotte’s first tangle on the site, in fact it’s her first tangle as she notes,

“It is my VERY FIRST tangle. I call it Abukas, and it is influenced by Lynn Mead’s tangle Abeko and the original Zentangle® tangle Arukas.

I rather stumbled on to it while I was working on some smaller Bijou tiles for a project I am working on. …

I like how art deco it looks, and I think it has a lot of potential.“

Charlotte’s first is a good one! She illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Abukas here on her blog where she shows several examples of Abukas in a Zentangle® tile and together with CZT Suzanne Fluhr’s Aloha tangle on a colorful alcohol ink monoprint ZIA piece.

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Check out the tag charlottec for more of Charlotte’s tangles on TanglePatterns.com.

Warm wishes for a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Tomorrow we will be enjoying Thanksgiving Day traditions in the U.S.A., giving special thanks for all the blessings we have to be grateful for every single day of the year.

Whether you are celebrating this occasion or not, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for being such an important part of this wonderful, caring, sharing Zentangle® community. You keep me going with your love and support and I am so very grateful to have you in my life.

With much love and gratitude not just today, but every day.

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