How to draw OODLES

Quite the jam-packed viewing over the last few days in the sports world Robert and I enjoy following from our armchairs.

In the NBA and played at a torrid pace, the Toronto Raptors are leading the Golden State Warriors 3 games to 1 in the breathless 2018-2019 basketball season finals — happy delirium across Canada! Tonight Game 5 is a home game in Toronto for the Raptors with a chance for them to make history should they win the game and take the series. Fingers crossed for NBA Champions from Canada!

In the UEFA Nations League finals yesterday host country Portugal defeated the Netherlands to win the new tournament’s first trophy after last week’s playoff matches.

And the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 began group stage play in France. There are some great women’s teams from all over the world competing so cheer your country’s team on! These World Cup matches go through the rest of the month with the final in Lyon on July 7th. A day after the Tour de France begins 🙂

And that’s it for my weekend update sports report. You should be able to guess where we’ll be for the best part of the next two months!

CZT Mary Van Deman is back today with her loopy Oodles tangle, it’s her second on the site. Around Valentine’s Day she shared her Shearts tangle with us.

About her Oodles tangle Mary writes,

It is pretty simple and can be used as a single line or border, or as fill if multiple lines are added. When adding more lines of this pattern it is easier to keep turning the tile matching the loops and curves together as you go.

In my sample tile I drew a line of Oodles along my string in a gentle curve, varying the size of the upper curves and adding extra lines, more fill, and shading for a free-form look.

In the section where I used it for fill I filled the diamond shapes completely with black because I needed more black in my design.

Oodles is similar to Cyndi Knapp’s Bekk loopy tangle and although it looks complicated, it’s very easy to tangle. I’ve shown my example turned “sideways”, no up or down. There are many ways to add ink and graphite fills and shading to embellish Oodles. Mary includes an unusual ribbon style version in her tile as she just described.

Mary illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Oodles below where her sample tile includes the Zentangle®-original tangles Tripoli, Knightsbridge, Florz, Msst, and Fescu.

Image copyright the artist and used with permission, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Please feel free to refer to the steps images to recreate this tangle in your personal Zentangles and ZIAs, or to link back to this page. However the artist and TanglePatterns.com reserve all rights to these images and they must not be publicly pinned, altered, reproduced or republished. They are for your personal offline reference only. Thank you for respecting these rights. Click the image for an article explaining what copyright means in plain English. “Always let your conscience be your guide.” ~ Jiminy Cricket

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 comment helps motivate them to continue to share!

Check out the tag maryvd for more of Mary’s tangles on TanglePatterns.com.

Related Links

1. 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.
2. What is a Zentangle? — if you are new to the Zentangle Method, start here for the fundamentals.
3. Zentangle terminology — a glossary of terms used in this art form.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. "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?
7. How to submit your pattern deconstruction to TanglePatterns
8. 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.
9. 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!
10. Never miss a tangle! FREE eMAIL NEWSLETTER - visit the SUBSCRIBE page on the top menu bar of any page on the site and sign up to get notices delivered free to your inbox.

.oOo.
Enhance your Zentangle experience while supporting TanglePatterns:
CURRENT EDITION! TanglePatterns.com TANGLE GUIDE, 2024 Edition
	The 13th Edition of the TanglePatterns.com TANGLE GUIDE is an instant-download 109-page interactive digital eBook/PDF containing approximately 2,000 tangles on the site from May 2010 through December 31, 2023. It's a great resource and a must-have digital tool for using the site. Visit the STORE > E-BOOKS page and help keep TanglePatterns.com going by getting your copy now!
	"Linda, Thank you! I was relying on too few and getting stuck after 3 years of daily working with Zentangle. This has inspired me to ‘begin again’ with renewed excitement." ~ Barbara R.
See the BOOK REVIEWS page for more details on its features and view a sample page. Note: this is a digital product you download immediately when you place your order, nothing will be physically mailed to you.
GIFT ORDERS FOR ANOTHER PERSON: To give the TANGLE GUIDE as a gift, visit this page to place your gift order.
If you're new to Zentangle® and tangling, my TanglePatterns.com BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO ZENTANGLE is just what you need to get started. Also available en Français and en Español.
	This is the only Zentangle book you'll ever need: the fabulous Zentangle PRIMER Vol 1. It's your CZT-in-a-book by the founders of Zentangle®. Visit the STORE tab on the top menu bar or click on the image. For more about the content and to read the rave reviews, visit the BOOK REVIEWS tab.
NEW! Now available in KINDLE format for $9.99. Spanish Edition here. Japanese Edition here.
"Absolutely the best Zentangle Book yet! As an accomplished artist I used to think I did not need instruction on this art form. How wrong I was! My tangling improved by leaps and bounds after reading this book. If you think you have Zentangle down then you need this book more than ever!" ~ Kris H
.oOo.