Swooshi is such a fun new tangle from CZT Lucy Farran who recently shared her Essence tangle with us.
As you’ll see from Lucy’s steps and her Zentangle® tile examples, Swooshi is a really versatile tangle whether drawn randomly or in “a more orderly arrangement” and offers lots of opportunity for fills, or not.
Lucy explains how Swooshi evolved:
Swooshi developed because I wanted to see what would happen if I replaced the ‘C’ lines of Molygon with ‘S’ lines.
It didn’t really fit together like Molygon does and it seemed different enough to warrant its own step out.
It fits together in many different random or more uniform ways and the finished tangle offers many fill options from simple 2D or 3D shading to being used as a reticulum for other tangles or fragments.
The name ‘Swooshi’ comes from the fact that one end of each shape looks a little like the Nike ‘swoosh’, hence, it is a bit ‘swooshi’.
For my example I used Lucy’s first tile with the radial version of Swooshi as a model and her second tile for the fill. I love those S curves, even if my brain/pen connection goes a little wonky at times!
Lucy illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Swooshi below. “The other tangles included in the examples are: on the tan tile, Fescu and Zinger, with a Crescent Moon/Bunzo fragment fill, and on the grey tile, Crescent Moon and Diva Dance, with a Shattuck fill.”
Image copyright the artist and used with permission, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. These images are for your personal offline reference only. Please feel free to refer to the images to recreate this tangle in your personal Zentangles and ZIAs. However the artist and TanglePatterns.com reserve all rights to the images and they must not be publicly pinned, altered, reproduced or republished. Thank you for respecting these rights. For more information, click on the image for a discussion entitled “Artists for Respect” by several prominent artists. “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” ~ C.S. Lewis
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 lucyf for more of Lucy’s tangles on TanglePatterns.com.
.oOo.
Zentangle's Elemental Strokes
For those who aren't familiar with Zentangle's elemental strokes for deconstructing a pattern to be drawn as a tangle,
“Usually the number of elemental strokes needed are 3 or less. Often, you only need one or two.
By ‘elemental strokes’ we mean a dot, a straight(-ish) line, a curve (like a parenthesis), a reverse curve (like an ‘S’), and an orb or circle.“ ~ from the Zentangle blog
For an ingenious example of these elemental strokes used together as a tangle, be sure to check out CZT® Mina Hsiao’s Dicso. (Note: not disco!)
.oOo.
Related Links
- 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.
- What is a Zentangle? — if you are new to the Zentangle Method, start here for the fundamentals.
- Zentangle terminology — a glossary of terms used in this art form.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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?
- How to submit your pattern deconstruction to TanglePatterns
- 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.
- 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!
- 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. |
|
October 2, 2019 | 
More like this: 
Oh yes, I like this one a lot. I know it will be very meditative to tangle as well as looking good. So versatile too. Thank you Lucy and Linda!
Perfect timing and pattern! I was looking for a tangle to fill in a large open space on a ZIA “doodle” I’m doing, but nothing quite did the trick–and then this showed up in my Inbox a short time ago, and it fits the space perfectly. Much like Linda, I have a disconnect between my hand and brain, so my pattern isn’t turning out precisely like the original, but very close, and it’s fitting into the “nooks and crannies” very well 😀
Lovin’ It!!
I love this one – so versatile. Thanks!
This will be a fun play on a rainy day. Thanks for sharing.
Make a beautiful flower or ponds of water or waves. This is a beautiful and so many ways to use it.
Thank you