How to draw ZEPPO

Welcome to the first Monday tangle of 2019!

Holidays behind us, we happily return to whatever passes for “normal” in our lives and a brand new year of possibilities …

Belgian CZT Ria Matheussen gets our new year’s adventures underway with another sweet tangle inspired by tasty food. This has zero calories or carbs.

A few weeks ago we had QuaSahnt followed by Momo. Today we have Ria’s fun and easy Zeppo!

Zeppo is somewhat similar to CZT Suzanne McNeill’s Bubbles tangle but with a whole lot more personality. Tastier too 🙂

Ria introduces Zeppo:

Unexpectedly, the American Donut inspired me to create a new tangle.

Who doesn’t know this famous little pastry? In almost every country we can find some family: in Belgium and France, we call them “Beignets”. This variation is often filled with fruit, potatoes or meat. In the Netherlands it is a tradition to eat “oliebollen” on the last day of the year. In Berlin they have their “Berliner Bol” and in South Africa you can find “vetkoek”. I’m sure I have forgotten to mention several countries but the nicest name is given by the Italians: Zeppole and so I gave this new tangle the name Zeppo.

As you can see in the steps, I started with two circles, one big and one smaller inside. It is necessary to use a bit of black inside the inner circle to become a kind of “hole”, where you can look through. Zeppo can be drawn regular or irregular and you can draw something else behind like strokes, perfs or as in my example Nipa. On my composition you also see CO2 and Pebble Flowers.

I hope you like this “delicious” tangle with nice memories and thoughts of little guilty pleasures for lots of us.

Donut aficionados around the world are devotees of the Canadian hockey player Tim Horton’s famous now-international franchise, Tim Hortons Cafe and Bake Shop. The “holes” at Tim Hortons are the “bite size morsels” known as Timbits®. Mmmmmmm …

Ria illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Zeppo below where she includes both the regular and irregular forms she described above. For my example I used an irregular version – or maybe someone nibbled a few Zeppo from the plate 😉

Ria notes that “Every ‘donut’ is always surrounded by 6 little tipples, as well in the regular form as in the irregular version. The little tipples make the connections between the different ‘donuts’, they always are a lot smaller than the ‘donuts’ themselves.”

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