Mintea is a delicate and pretty new tangle from Indian CZT Vandana Krishna, and it’s her first on the site.
Vandana, one of 21 CZTs in India, introduces herself:
I come from Bengaluru, the capital city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
I have been practicing Zentangle® art for the past 4 years and I became a CZT in 2017 graduating from Class #29.
It has been a great journey learning and teaching Zentangle!
This is Vandana’s lovely tile featuring her tangle on a large scale.
Vandana was enjoying a cup of green tea, Typhoo’s Moroccan Mint, and was attracted to the design on the tea’s packaging.
The pattern is a simple one placed in a nice grid format…. The tangler in me immediately started deconstructing it!!
So here’s presenting MINTEA (MINT+TEA).
The pattern can be used as a single-strand or mirroring double-strand border or even as organically growing individual elements as demonstrated in my example.
As you’ll observe, Vandana didn’t duplicate the packaging’s pattern exactly, she adapted it in such a nice way for us to enjoy.
Vandana illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Mintea below where she features it in three pretty tiles showing a variety of ways you could use Mintea in your Zentangles. The duotangle tile at the bottom shows Mintea as a pretty cluster of individual elements together with the Zentangle-original Florz.
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You can learn more about Vandana — “An engineer by qualification and an artist by passion” — here and visit her website here.
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January 16, 2019 | 
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This is just beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing.
Congratulations on a beautiful pattern!!! LOVE IT!! I’d like to welcome you to our amazing CZT Family!!!! Philly Area Zentangle
I like this immediately, lovely tangle, thank you for sharing!
That is such a pretty pattern. I particularly like the large scale version. The shading is beautiful. Thank you for sharing Vandana.
Wow, I can already tell that I’m going to like this one! Thank you so much for sharing it, Vandana and Linda!
Congratulations! It’s an amazing tangle and sort of reminds me of the fab Taj Mahal. I loved t!
This is so cute! I’m going to play with it for sure!
Beautiful! I have often admired art and architecture from India! Thank you Vandana and Linda for sharing this lovely drawing!
looks like fun. Will have a play with it
Thank you Vandana for your beautiful tangle!!
This is a lovely tangle…it reminds me of quilling…I will play with it for sure…thanks for sharing!
Dear Vandana, How interesting! This is just the type of pattern I love, a bit floral and a bit architectural. I can see the influence of your heritage reflected, so nice! I particularly love the bold squares balancing the lacy mintea. Good name too! Mary
Thank you, Vandana, for this beautiful tangle. I had fun playing with it last night and will use it more I am sure.
Just lovely! I’ve enjoyed playing around with this tangle. Thank you for sharing and a big congratulations on your first tangle. It’s a good one.
That’s neat how it can be used as a single, a line or on a box grid. So revertible. Thanks so much for sharing it with us.
Hi Vandana, I am Indian-American living in India. Thanks for sharing the beautiful tangle.
I love it! Thank you!
Thank you for Mintea. I really like it and will try it out later today. It really is beautiful.