How to draw DOODAH

Doodah! It’s a super easy ribbon-style tangle for you to play with …

Doodah is the latest Zentangle®-original tangle published by co-founders Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas.

This fun tangle was first released to CZTs attending the zenAgain event last November (2018) and has since appeared in the Zentangle Mosaic app. And now it’s also available to “the rest of us”! 😉

Rick writes,

Exciting things happen at zenAgain events. At our last zenAgain, we introduced some new tangles. One of them is doodah.

This tangle is super-simple to tangle, yet it offers a lovely texture.

It is well suited to use as a border tangle and you can distort it to your heart’s content.

Maria had been playing with this architecturally inspired pattern for some time and, at the last minute, we decided to introduce it at zenAgain.

Maria explains its name:

This tangle was called Doodah because I thought it looked like a zipper and I thought zippity-doo-dah.

... you see it a lot on borders on frames and in buildings … so effective and almost Egyptian looking.

Maria illustrates the step-by-step instructions for tangling Doodah here in the Zentangle newsletter. The newsletter includes beautiful inspiring Zendala examples featuring Doodah. “As you can see, you can distort it to your heart’s content.”

BTW – in both the CZT newsletter and on the Mosaic app this tangle is spelled as all one word – Doodah – therefore a priori I’m sticking with the original spelling.

Those who participated in Project Pack #5, Zentangle Cartouches, might recall that Maria uses Doodah in the Day 7 video as part of this cartouche.

UPDATE March 4, 2020 – Project Pack #8. As part of the Dancing in the Moonlight project pack, with Rick keeping her company, at 15:40 Maria tangles Doodah on one of several different black prestrung Zendala tiles during this video:

UPDATE March 6, 2020 – Project Pack #8. As part of the Dancing in the Moonlight project pack, Rick tangles Mi2, Shattuck, Knightsbridge and Doodah on a white prestrung Zendala tile using a black Micron 01 and the new Sakura Moonlight Gelly Roll Pens:

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UPDATE July 26, 2020 – Project Pack #10. As part of The Legend of Zentangle project pack series, starting at 02:14 Maria shows her tile where she combined Doodah, Mooka, and Huggins.

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UPDATE September 27, 2020 – Project Pack #11. As part of the Fee-PHI-Fo-Fun! project pack, Maria tangles Doodah on her Phi tile.

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UPDATE December 12, 2020 – Project Pack #12. As part of the 12 Days of Zentangle, 2020 Zentangle Renaissance project pack, Martha tangles Doodah on a Renaissance tan tile beginning at 33:56.

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UPDATE December 13, 2022 – Project Pack #19. As part of the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2022 Edition project pack, Maria tangles Doodah with a Black Micron 08 beginning at 09:25 in this video:

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UPDATE March 23, 2023 – Project Pack #20. As part of the Blossoming Tangles project pack, Maria tangles Ellish with Crescent Moon and Doodah in this video:

UPDATE May 10, 2024 – As part of Zentangle’s 21-Day project honoring Mental Health Awareness Month this year, on Day 1 Julie tangles Doodah in this video.

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UPDATE August 23, 2024 – Project Pack #24. As part of the Crescent Moon and Aura project pack, Maria tangles Crescent Moon, Bronx Cheer, Hurry and Doodah in this video:

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For a complete list of Zentangle’s Project Packs click the PROJECT PACKS link in the pink alphabetic tangle menu bar.

Check out the tag zentangle for more Zentangle-original (aka “official”) 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.
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