Happy Monday, everyone! As always, I’m so pleased to have your company 🙂
Today we’re continuing to add another of the early Zentangle®-original tangles, Avreal.
As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2018 Edition series, several of these “old” tangles that haven’t been publicly published before are being included in the series and being added to TanglePatterns. “Linda’s List of Official Tangle Patterns” is getting pinker by the day as more and more of the Zentangle-original tangles now have online instructions and active links to them.
In Day 7’s video, Zentangle co-founder Rick Roberts demonstrates how to tangle Avreal, starting at about 08:03 and accompanying him, Maria adds her commentary:
NOTE: For future reference, the video segment for the other tangles included in the “Twelve Days of Zentangle” series can be located on the tangle’s page on TanglePatterns.
Day 7 tangles include Printemps, Rain, Fracas, and Avreal.
As you enjoy any of the tangles on the site, please leave a comment of thanks and encouragement to show the artists you appreciate them for sharing their creativity to inspire yours. Your thanks helps motivate them to continue to share!
Check out the tag zentangle for all of the Zentangle®-original tangles with authorized online instructions.
Related Links
- 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.
- What is a Zentangle? — if you are new to the Zentangle Method, start here for the fundamentals.
- Zentangle terminology — a glossary of terms used in this art form.
- How to use the site — an excellent free video tutorial showing how to use the site as well as pointing out lots of useful features you might have missed.
- 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.
- Un motif n’est pas toujours un tangle — Qu’est-ce qu’un tangle ?
- Un diseño no es siempre un tangle — ¿Qué es un tangle?
- How to submit your pattern deconstruction to TanglePatterns
- For lots of great FREE tutorials on TanglePatterns, click on the TUTORIALS link in the pink alphabetic menu bar below the tangle images at the top of any page.
- Strings! Have we got STRINGS! Click on the STRINGS link in the pink alphabetic menu bar below the tangle images at the top of any page for 250 different (free) Zentangle-starters. More than enough for any lifetime!
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December 10, 2018 | 
More like this: 
How does one get that “spinner”, it looks like fun!
Hi Anna, the Zentangle Spinner is included in Project Pack #04 which you can purchase from your local CZT or from the store on Zentangle.com.
I’m having a fun play with all the official tangles and did not realize so many of them were not on your Tangle Patterns site. The spinner is fun and I think will be an awesome teaching tool for us CZT’s.
I always look forward to the patterns that I see on Linda Farmer’s page! This is a lovely pattern (great border)! Thank you for sharing!