Monday greetings, y’all! Hope you’re all well and flu season behind us. Easter bunnies on the horizon …
Today’s easy continuous-line Swimz tangle is from Australian CZT Sandra McKenny and it’s her first on the site. Sandra is from the 19th CZT certification class.
She writes,
I hadn’t tangled much during 2017 so decided to use the 12 days of Zentangle® challenge to become re-inspired.
By day 4, and Rick’s great variation on Diva Dance (one of my favourite tangles), I was back to tangling every day.
I live in the beautiful Northern Rivers region of New South Wales [near Brisbane] in Australia. A year ago, at the end of March, cyclone Debbie caused widespread flooding in our area. We were very lucky compared to many and our house weathered the storm. However our 8 acre property and gardens didn’t fare so well and our dam was almost completely filled with flood-mud (along with an amazing assortment of other things!).
Months later, when we were finally able to have the dam dredged, I became fascinated by the creatures that swim on the surface of the water. They are so fast and create wonderful swirls and ripples.
These little swirls started to appear in my Diva Dance. I have named my tangle “Swimz” in recognition of the talent of these tiny creatures and to celebrate the rebuilding of our dam and gardens.
Cyclone Debbie reached landfall one year ago this Wednesday, on March 28th, 2017. The height of hurricane season in this part of the planet is at the end of Summer and the transition into Fall when the ocean’s had all that Summer heat warming it up. And its about that time of year “down under”, will their Fall just underway. Fingers crossed, no more cyclones in 2018. Or hurricanes for that matter.
Swimz starts with a springy-Printemps in the center and works outwards from there. It’s quite addictive to tangle and (you’ll notice) I found it tempting to add the loops everywhere. Surprisingly Swimz turns out different every time and it’s also fun to use orb shapes in place of the teardrop loops for a little change of pace. Swimz is a really good tangle for getting us to slow down and enjoy each stroke as the ink flows from the nib of the Micron. It can fill any shaped section in your Zentangle tile as the auras flow in waves out to the edges.
Sandra illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Swimz below and she features it in a Zentangle tile with the Zentangle-original Florz.
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Well, this is a fun one! I love ‘diva dancing’ and this is a wonderful variation. Amazing to read your story too. I hope this year goes well for you. Best wishes from Ontario!
Very pleasant to draw and looks good, thank you for sharing!
Ooooo. I like this tangle. It looks like it will be very relaxing to do this one. Thank you for sharing it with us.
I love this tangle! Wouldn’t it be pretty to do dew drops in the teardrop sections? Just drawing this would seem to be so meditative. Hey, how come I didn’t meet you, Sandra, at CZT 19? It was all so exciting and I wish it could have gone on longer!
Beautiful! I just did this on my daily Tangle calender!
Thank you…???
Do I detect tadpoles? Gr8 tangle.
I will try this asap. I’ve been waiting for a new one that I would enjoy, and I think this is it. Thank you!
I love this tangle and the story of your inspiration. As we slowly enter spring in Canada, I hope you have calm winds and a peaceful fall season.
This will be a fun one to play with. Thanks and my your fall season be a nice one with on dramatic weather play!
Thank you Sandra for sharing Swimz with us. I just finished my first attempt and love it. I can see this will become one of my ‘mac N cheese’ tangles.
This new tangle looks like a fun one. I never would have guessed how it was drawn! Lots of inviting variations to try too. Thanks!
I love the fluidity of this tangle.
I can’t wait to play around with this one. Big loops, little loops, wonky loops, double loops, and silly loops. Lots of zen time. Thank you!
Swimz could become a firm favourite. Lovely tangle.
Very meditative..thank you.Glad your house survived That storm. Here in Houston, Texas we Endured a horrific storm August 2017.
Our house survived..but over 100,000 homes were not So lucky. I appreciate you sharing your story