Canadian CZT Bunny Wright has a lovely “summery” tangle she’s named Dayzee-Mae for us today.
Dayzee-Mae is a pretty, non-objective “floral” tangle that comes together without actually drawing a flower. As Zentangle® co-founder Maria Thomas notes, “keep the tangles as little like ‘drawing something’ as possible. One simple stroke in many places, then a different stroke next to the others…etc.”
Dayzee-Mae came to Bunny in her early morning sleep, as she writes,
I ‘dreamed’ up this little pattern early the other morning before i rose and I just got up and drew the whole thing.
As I have shown it makes a nice summery border as well as a regular pattern and I’m sure there could be lots of variations found as well.
Since it is ‘daisy-like’ the name ‘Daisy-Mae’ came to mind from the old cartoon Li’l Abner fame, so I have named it ‘Dayzee-Mae’.
I suspect you have to be of a certain age to remember Li’l Abner, Daisy Mae Yokum, Mammy and Pappy Yokum, Marryin’ Sam and the rest of the comic strip’s satirical characters, and I’m right there!
According to the very detailed entry in Wikipedia, Li’l Abner paved the way “for Pogo, Feiffer, Doonesbury and MAD.”
Li’l Abner is a satirical American comic strip that appeared in many newspapers in the United States, Canada and Europe, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the impoverished mountain village of Dogpatch, USA.
Written and drawn by Al Capp (1909–1979), the strip ran for 43 years, from August 13, 1934 through November 13, 1977.
It was distributed by United Feature Syndicate. Comic strips typically dealt with northern urban experiences before Capp introduced Li’l Abner, the first strip based in the South.
The comic strip had 60 million readers in over 900 American newspapers and 100 foreign papers in 28 countries. Author M. Thomas Inge says Capp “had a profound influence on the way the world viewed the American South.”
… Sadie Hawkins Day and Sadie Hawkins dance are two of several terms attributed to Al Capp that have entered the English language.”
If you check out Li’l Abner a little more on Wikipedia, don’t miss the description of the character “Senator Jack S. Phogbound: His name was a thinly disguised variant on ‘jackass’.” Couldn’t be more appropriate for politicians today. Capp was indeed a genius satirist. And a great cartoonist.
And now after that delightful diversion, here’s Bunny’s Dayzee-Mae tangle.
Dayzee-Mae is an easy tangle to do, the hardest part is creating the ogee grid lines. But if you bear in mind “shallow S shapes” (see my ogee grid guide here) instead of doing one continuous wavy line (unless you can do that!), I think you’ll find it a breeze. For my example of Dayzee-Mae I used one of Bunny’s variations, an all-over filler type of tangle.
Bunny illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Dayzee-Mae below where she demonstrates it as a pretty border tangle and also shows some variations. In her lovely Zentangle tile featuring Dayzee-Mae, Bunny includes the Zentangle-originals Mooka, Knightbridge, Fescu with auras, and Scena, along with Adam Rhoades’s Ovy, and how fun to see my very own Chard too 🙂
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Crystals for a Cause Update – Order by midnight tonight to be entered in a drawing for a $50 TCS Gift Certificate
If you missed yesterday’s Crystals for a Cause: “To Infinity and Beyond!” A Fundraiser to support the TanglePatterns website announcement from CZT Jenny Perruzzi, here’s an update from Jenny.
“FUNdraising CHALLENGE: If 25 bracelets have been ordered by midnight tonight (Eastern, Monday June 11th) all names will be entered into a drawing for a $50 TCS Gift Certificate!
With more than half of the product line priced under $50, there will be plenty of Swarovski Swag for the winner to choose from!
Together, the tangling community can DO this! Ready … set … sparkle!”
See Jenny’s post here for the details.
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- 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.
- "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.
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I think it’s rather unusual to see a 10-point tangle. Well done.
Linda
oh, I LOVE this one!
Jenny Peruzzi’s infinity bracelet in black and with white Swarovski crystals, with her commission all going to Tangle patterns.com, it is a big reward for Linda’s hard work over the last eight years and counting. Spoil yourselves and help the site as well!
I have ordered mine already and can’t wait to receive it. Being black and white and in that lovely Infinity shape, it could well become a recognisable symbol for Tangling!and a lovely way of saying Thank you to Linda!!