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How to draw THEREFORE

Zentangle pattern: Therefore. Image © Linda Farmer and TanglePatterns.com. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. You may use this image for your personal non-commercial reference only. The unauthorized pinning, reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal.My personal recollection of this embellishment is from American artist Mary Engelbreit‘s colorful, whimsical art.

Mary herself was inspired by the illustrations in children’s storybooks from the early 1900’s. She writes:

I taught myself by copying old illustrations from my mother’s storybooks, and if you do that long enough, you start developing your own style, which for me happened slowly but surely.”

For those who may not be familiar with Mary, one of her first greeting cards and later a book “Life Is Just a Chair of Bowlies” is probably her most iconic piece. Once you’ve seen Mary’s work, her style is instantly recognizable. Colorful patterns of all sorts fill every piece of her art.

Suffice it to say this pattern of three solid dots or hollow orbs arranged like the math symbol Therefore, has been around for many years. When I first began TanglePatterns in 2010 I used the Mary-inspired three dots background in my example of Ahh.

On January 12, 2018, Zentangle co-founder Maria posted a tile in the Zentangle Mosaic app using this embellishment and gave it a Zentangle name – Therefore.

For my Therefore example I decided to give it some order, rather than it being a free-form, random type of fill. Therefore, I placed it in a grid pattern 🙂

UPDATE March 4, 2020 – Project Pack #8. As part of the Dancing in the Moonlight project pack, with Rick keeping her company, at 18:21 Maria tangles Therefore on one of several different black prestrung Zendala tiles during this video:

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UPDATE December 22, 2020 – Project Pack #12. As part of the 12 Days of Zentangle, 2020 Zentangle Renaissance project pack, Maria tangles Mi2, Mooka and Therefore on a regular square Renaissance tan tile.

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Check out the tag zentangle for more Zentangle-original (aka “official”) tangles on TanglePatterns.com.

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Zentangle Project Pack Summaries on TanglePatterns

For your convenience here are the links to all of my Zentangle Project Pack summaries:
  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. August 2022: Introducing Zentangle's new Translucen-Z Tiles
  19. December 2022: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2022 Edition - Zentomology
  20. March 17, 2023: Blossoming Tangles
  21. August 4, 2023: Organic Tangles: Tangles of a Botanical Nature
  22. December 2023: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2023 Edition - Exploring the Spiral
  23. March 15, 2024: The Birth of the Zentangle Method
  24. August 9, 2024: Crescent Moon & Aura
  25.  December 2024: The Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2024 Edition

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These are the links to my Zentangle Apprentice Project Pack summaries:
  1. January - February 2021: The Basics of the Zentangle Method
NOTE: You can always find the Project Pack Summaries by clicking on PROJECT PACKS on the pink alphabetic tangle menu bar. OR by looking in the left sidebar under TANGLES BY TYPE for the tag projectpack. OR on the ZENTANGLE PROJECT PACKS page on the ZENTANGLES tab on the top menu bar of any page on the site.

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