Today we travel all the way to the west coast of Canada, to Surrey, British Columbia.
The lovely Pamela tangle is from Canadian artist and CZT Margaret Bremner.
Margaret has loads of great tangles on the site, be sure to check them out — more on how to do that below, but first … today’s tangle.
Pamela shares DNA with several other spiral-based tangles on the site including the recent Irice, and also Appease, Earjool, Mei, Butter and Rosé.
I liked Molly Hollibaugh’s description of this type of tangle in Project Pack #07. Pamela is one of those tangles “that blossom, radiate or in many cases create their own space rather than fill a predefined space. These tangles or tangling techniques are exciting and often become the star of the show.”
Margaret explains the source of inspiration for her tangle and its name:
When Pam, a friend of ours, moved from a house to an apartment several years ago, we purchased a matching coffee table and end table from her. I really like the metal rod pattern in the centers and have finally taken time to deconstruct it. …
It’s what I call a ‘vessel tangle’, a tangle with a lot of empty spaces that you can add to as you please.
Margaret illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Pamela here on her blog where she includes a Zentangle® tile and several ZIA tiles demonstrating ways of exploring it especially as a “vessel” for other tangle fragments. You’ll also see a photo of her coffee table inspiration.
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Check out the tag margaretb for more of Margaret’s tangles on TanglePatterns.com.
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TAGS & How to locate tangles by artist or type on TanglePatterns
Did you know you can easily find TANGLES BY ARTIST and TANGLES BY TYPE on TanglePatterns?
Every tangle has tags listed as live links in the date bar just above the comments section on its page. The date bar looks like this screen capture where I've highlighted the Tag section in aqua:
Scroll down on any tangle's page and click on those live links in the date bar to get to similar types of tangles and to find tangles by the same artist.
For detailed instructions on how to use these features and more, on the top menu bar on any page on the site go to the ABOUT > HOW TO FIND TANGLES BY ARTIST OR TYPE page.
Related Links
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- 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 ?
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April 15, 2020 | 
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Hi,
I have always enjoyed seeing and drawing Margaret’s designs. This one, Pamela is easy and pretty.
Thank you to Margaret. I wish I lived near you, so I could have classes with you.
Thank you, sincerely,
Bonnie
This is a beautiful tangle Margaret. I will be playing with it today. Thank you!
Thanks for Pamela, Had to stop and play with this one. Very fun.
Where is the how-to? Too much bother to search and then end up back at the page I began with.
“Patience you must have, my young padawan.”
The whole idea of me going to all this work to share information and help you learn is for you to actually READ it.
Seek and ye shall find – your efforts will be rewarded.
Love everything Margaret Bremner and Pamela is no exception. Beautiful and graceful.