How to draw EDIE

Today’s Edie tangle is from New York CZT Laurel Davis, and it’s her first on the site.

Laurel introduces herself and her Edie tangle.

I’m a retired educator from Troy, New York. I have been tangling since Dec. 2014 when my sister brought home the book The Joy Of Zentangle. I was immediately hooked and was lucky enough to become a CZT in June 2017 (CZT#28).

I’m also a proud member of Tucker’s Tanglers, a group in St. Augustine, FL that I get to tangle with during the winter months. I recently attended Maria and Rick’s Zentomology class and was inspired to look for patterns.

On a late summer trip with friends, I saw a sculpture that I thought I could deconstruct into a tangle. As it was displayed on the Edith Wharton estate, I named it Edie.

Laurel shares this photo of the inspiration for her tangle, a sculpture from the gardens at The Mount, “Edith Wharton’s Beloved Home” in Lenox, Massachusetts:

From Wikipedia:

Edith Wharton was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider’s knowledge of the upper class New York “aristocracy” to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age.

She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature (for The Age of Innocence), in 1921. She was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1996.

From edithwharton.org:

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was born into a tightly controlled society at a time when women were discouraged from achieving anything beyond a proper marriage. Wharton broke through these strictures to become one of America’s greatest writers.

Author of The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, and The House of Mirth, she wrote over 40 books in 40 years, including authoritative works on architecture, gardens, interior design, and travel.

She was the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Yale University, and a full membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Edith Wharton’s impressive range of works include over a dozen novels as well as novellas, poetry, short story collections and the authoritative non-fiction mentioned above. Several of her fictional works have been adapted for film, TV and theatre.

Edie, Laurel’s tangle, is an absorbing one that makes use of Zentangle’s tangle enhancer called rounding for its overall sculptural effect.

Laurel illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Edie below where she features it in a monotangle demonstrating several possible variations. Any number of fills can be used (or not) to embellish Edie.

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