Greetings y’all!
We welcome this beautiful week with Sun, a beautiful tangle from CZT Hanna Shan.
Hanna is from Taiwan and a member of the CZT-Asia #2 class of November 2016, Sun is her first tangle on the site.
Hanna writes that her inspiration for Sun came from an image she saw online,
“This inspiration comes from photos of plants which look like the sun. This plant motivated me to deconstruct it.
Simple pattern elements using dots, arcs and curves.
I used my original intuition to call it Sun.”
Mother Nature has many, many glorious spiral-type plants as you can find doing a simple Google search. If I’m not mistaken Hanna’s inspiration is Costus afer, a type of spiral Ginger plant which luckily grows here in Florida where, it seems, virtually any plant will flourish and the more exotic and colorful, the better.
Hanna’s lovely tile featuring Sun, along with others including Icantoo and the Zentangle®-original Printemps:
Though it might look complicated, Sun is very easy to tangle and it’s a lovely addition to our resource. The “leaves” give it a bit of a Pokeroot vibe, which I seem to be into lately … They can be tangled slightly overlapping (“drawn behind”) as shown in Hanna’s tile or side-by-side as in her steps.
Hanna illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Sun below. Easy peasy, and pretty too!
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. 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 thanks helps motivate them to continue to share!
Check out the tag hannas for more of Hanna’s tangles on TanglePatterns.com.
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.
In case you missed it ...
Zentangle is "not just the latest buzzword for ‘that thing I was already doing years ago in the margins of notebooks’."
So if that's what you've been thinking, you don't know Zentangle yet.
For enlightenment on this subject please read CZT Sandy Hunter's eloquent article On Understanding Zentangle.
|
.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. |
|
January 13, 2020 | 
More like this: 
I definitely am into the organic tangles. This one is outstanding and will be making it’s way into my “default” tangles 😀
Nice tangle – it makes me think that this is what would happen if Javik grew a bit more!
Easy organic tangle. Thanks for sharing
Hello, I absolutely do not understand why and how the Zentangles get their names. The Zentangles never look like and or resemble the names they are given. This makes no senses to me at all. Please can you explain how the Zentangles get their names? Thank you so very much.
Hi Debra, there is a deliberate reason for naming tangles in the Zentangle Method. This is from the SUBMIT YOUR PATTERN page, look for the subheading “Naming your pattern”:
Rick and Maria explain: “we describe Zentangle’s method as ‘non-representational.’ It’s also why (for the most part) we give our tangles names that have little relationship with what a tangle looks like. … We usually choose names that don’t create a preconception of how a tangle should look.”
We are encouraged to choose a “non representational” name for our tangles, but in the end the choice is up to the person who deconstructed the pattern.
Lovely
I love organic tangles and this is definitely one of them. It’s so lovely and gives lots of movement to a tile. This will definitely be one of my go to tangles. Thank you Hanna!
Lovely! Another plant/leaf/tree/vine thing I can use on my eco-dyedpapers. 😀
This is a great tangle. Thanks for sharing it, Hanna.
Lovely, easy tangle! Just finished the tile with this pattern – love it. Thank you for the ray of Sun, Hanna!
Such a lovely Tangle. Thank you.
Hanna,
Thank you for this beautiful tangle. Leaves are some of my favorite shapes to make.
I’ve always loved ferns as they unfurl. This tangle reminds me of young ferns. I will definitely use this tangle. Thank you for sharing.
This is such a beautiful Tangle! Thank you for allowing people to try it! I did 8 tangle designs today, and this one is my grandsons favourite of all.
I’m very big on organic patterns and this one is gorgeous in it’s simplicity. It also lends itself to as much or as little complexity as one wishes to add. I LOVE IT and have placed it among my very favorites. Thanks so much Hanna!