How to draw ALEUBA

In honor of Mother’s Day this Sunday, our tangle today actually honors Grandmothers. And after all, Grandmas were Moms first!

Aleuba is from Spanish CZT Jaxeline Blanco Ruiz and it’s her first on the site.

For my example I used the simplest of Jaxeline’s versions, there’s more to Aleuba than first meets the eye. I guess that could be said of most grandmothers.

Those of you who enjoy word games may have already figured out Jaxeline’s tribute to grandmothers, but I’ll let her explain …

I’m from Mijas in Malaga, Spain and I’m a Zentangle® lover since March 2020.

I fell so in love with the Method that I decided to become a CZT in November 2020.

I called it “Aleuba” which means grandmother in Spanish if you read it backwards (Abuela) and I wanted to dedicate this tangle to all the grandmothers and especially to mine.

Before we learn how to tangle Aleuba, how about we take a quick trip to Spain. Courtesy of Wikipedia, this is a street scene in Mijas.

Mijas, located in the Costa del Sol, is an ancient town with fascinating history:

Mijas was founded in prehistoric times by the Tartessians. The remains of the original fortification are still visible on parts of the exterior wall of the city. The area’s mineral wealth attracted ancient Greeks and Phoenicians to the village.

The Romans, who kept up a lively commerce with Mijas, knew it as Tamisa. Roman domination was later replaced with the Visigoths’ rule after 714 AD. The Visigoths, in turn, were succeeded by the Moors. The Moors allowed the village inhabitants to preserve their property, religion, and customs in exchange for a third of their goods from agriculture, livestock, and farming. It was also the Moors who abbreviated the name of Tamisa to Mixa, which later became modern day Mijas.

… into the 19th century, Mijas suffered from intense pirate activity along the coast. It was this pirate activity that motivated the construction of the watchtowers that still stand today. ~ Wikipedia

Amazing the places tangles take us!

Jaxeline illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Aleuba below where she features it with variations in some lovely ribbons with a clever little bit of trompe l’oeil of a couple of the ribbons escaping her tile.

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Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful Moms and Moms-to-be, and especially mine!

Have a beautiful weekend y’all and we’ll see you back here again on Monday with another fun and creative tangle to explore.

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