It’s been almost a year since NY CZT Beatrice Aronas shared her Return and Jud tangles for us to explore.
Today she’s back with her Bellah tangle and together with some beautiful examples she has a sweet story about its origin.
Beatrice writes,
This tangle came into being unexpectedly almost a year ago.
My friend Bellah called, as always, for a long chat. Her world is full of special events, unusual meetings, magical stories, inspiring things. As if she were living a carefree life in paradise. But she is not. She just sees beauty and kindness wherever she turns. Always grateful and very giving and, no matter what, like a SunFlower, she always turns to the Light.
While I was enjoying her talk I was playing with my Micron pen in my notebook. A few days later after her call, I returned to my notebook to get the information she had given me, and took a closer look at my unconscious scribbles. A few things attracted my attention and this looked new to me.
Beatrice’s lovely tribute to her friend is beautifully done in her Zendala tile featuring Bellah flowing from a Printemps spiral at the center with Tipple bubbles here and there …
Compared to Beatrice’s puffy and gorgeous examples, I could definitely up my game on the shading for Bellah. Practice, practice, practice! (Back to the tangling board?)
Beatrice illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Bellah below. The accompanying tiles also feature the Zentangle-originals Rain and Crescent Moon.
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Kissing fortune cookies! This is a fun one.
Thank you!
What a lovely comparison, Joan .You made me smile! Thank you for both – your time and your cheerful words!
Ooh, it’s tricky putting more than one on a line. I found that I have to alternate between top- bottom moons and bottom- top moons so as to allow the single cord to run through all of them. If I don’t alternate, I end up with a double cord in the middle. Make sense?
Wonderful! Thank you!
Great description! Thank you again!
Many thanks, Jennifer!
Interesting! Will take some play to get this one. Thanks for the share.
Thank you very much for you comment ! I hope you will like it!
Very lovely tangle which can work well in some tight unusual spaces that I often end up with. thank you for sharing.
Very interesting!!i hope ,?Bellah will be useful there.Thank you for taking your time to comment!
Belllah reminds me of very soft pillows. I must try it. So beautiful. Thank you.
Looking forward to using this. I love your sample tiles, and I love it that you used the back of a tile for one of them! Waste not, want not! I’ve seen others do this recently, and it’s such a good idea. Yours was especially cute because the red square framed the Bellah! Thanks for sharing this with us!
What a beautiful tangle! Thanks, Beatrice.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Milde!
I like this pretty special one very much, thank you for sharing Beatrice!
I love this tangle! So simple, yet it looks complicated! This is going to be fun to learn! Thanks for sharing!
Dear Linda, thank you very much for this beautiful presentation of Bellah tangle on your app. Grateful for your time, your thoughtfulness and a gift of bringing our creations to live.
This is a fabulous tangle. I have enjoyed using it.
What an incredibly versatile tangle – thank you for sharing!
Love the front and back tile illustrations 🙂