First tangle for May 2020!
May the prolific April showers soon bring you fields of May flowers 🙂
Today’s Moonrice tangle comes to us from Dutch tangler Ilonka Weerts and it’s her first on the site.
Ilonka writes,
My niece Olivia has introduced me to Zentangle® in December 2014. She started drawing at Christmas and when I asked her what she was drawing, she told me it was Zentangle. I have been tangling ever since!
This tangle just showed up when I was playing with different shapes. I called it Moonrice.
You start with a series of half moons, turn the page and repeat. That way you created the rice shapes in the middle, hence Moonrice. And yes, you create a diamond shape in there as well, but couldn’t think of a pun that consists of all the shapes. 🙂
It’s an easy tangle, and versatile as well! If you divide the tangle in two, you can use it as a fragment as well!
In all three of her lovely sample tiles Ilonka has shown a variety of ways to embellish and play with Moonrice. In addition to her gorgeous shading Ilonka includes auras, rounding, perfs, orbs and Scena, a Zentangle-original tangle to fill some of the spaces. BTW, don’t you love Ilonka’s clever chop?
As I’ve noted in the past, most ribbon-style tangles can create really interesting all-over patterns when you place rows (or columns) of them side-by-side as Ilonka has done with this tile that also includes a little TransluZENce:
Ilonka illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Moonrice and demonstrates it in a beautiful monotangle tile. LOTS of fun ways to play with this one!
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Congratulations my dear friend! This looks like such a fun pattern. I can’t wait to try it. Thank you for sharing.
I love this! It’s so easy but elegant and versatile. Thank you, Linda and Ilonka, for sharing!
Happy May and a happy tangle too. Thanks for a fun share.
This great little pattern looks like a winner for sure……thanks Ilonka and Linda for sharing….
.where would all the Tanglers be without the happy sharing that goes on all over the world??????
Oh my goodness. This one is simple but looks hard. Great tangle for beginners. Thank you for sharing Moonrice.
Hi, it looks so pretty and versatile; easy as well. I can’t wait to try this tangle. Thank you. Everyone stay safe and take care.
A pretty new one to bring more variations on our tiles. Thank you very mutch for sharing!
Love Moonrice! This is definitely a happy tangle for me.
I don’t know if it was your intention but when I took a second look at the second sample tile, I saw two owls staring back at me from the right border. After I saw that, I couldn’t see anything else! Oh, what fun.
I have been Zentangling for 5 years. Today, Election Day, it is helping me get through the day waiting for election results. I am maintaining an aura of calm. Thank you!