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How to draw KALANCHOE

How to draw the Zentangle pattern Kalanchoe, tangle and deconstruction by Emiko Kaneko. Image copyright the artist and used with permission, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.Greetings everyone, thanks for keeping me company once again and welcome to another week of fun tangle inspiration.

Today’s Kalanchoe grid-based tangle is from Japanese CZT Emiko Kaneko and it’s her fifth on the site.

Emiko writes,

It’s like a fragment, so if you draw it with a grid, you can feel a simple and beautiful connection.

And you can enjoy a different atmosphere by changing various arrangements and shadows.

I’ve been very attracted to succulents lately. One of the pleasures of my daily routine is to watch the plants that change their facial expressions every day.

So it has nothing to do with the tangle, but I named this tangle the summer-type succulent’s “Kalanchoe”.

So even though “it has nothing to do with the tangle“, what can we learn about Kalanchoe? From trusty old Wikipedia:

Kalanchoe, also written Kalanchöe or Kalanchoë, is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae, mainly native to Madagascar and tropical Africa.

Kalanchoe was one of the first plants to be sent into space, sent on a resupply to the Soviet Salyut 1 space station in 1979.

When you search Google and check out the images tab, there are many beautiful colors and shapes and sizes of Kalanchoe, this is the one most familiar to me.

While Kalanchoe the tangle looks complicated, it’s an easy grid-based tangle with a cool woven appearance and lots of interesting options for variations. As with most grid-based tangles they also make great ribbon-style tangles that also work well as a frame for a tile.

Emiko illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Kalanchoe below where she includes some creative variations to explore.

How to draw the Zentangle pattern Kalanchoe, tangle and deconstruction by Emiko Kaneko. Image copyright the artist and used with permission, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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4 comments to How to draw KALANCHOE

  • Merci beaucoup Emiko!
    C’est comme toujours un plaisir de découvrir l’originalité de tes
    Motifs! Merci également pour ton inspiration!
    Diana from Switzerland

  • Ann

    A lovely pattern and a joy to draw. Thank you! ?

  • Rita Miller

    Yet another wonderful tangle Emiko! This is so beautiful and I can’t wait to use it. Thank you so much for your generosity in sharing it!

  • JeannineR

    I will file this in my Complex Tangles list. At many points in this creation, I take a look and see that THIS can be a tangle in and by itself, and then, we add another line, and it gets more detailed. It really reminds me of the stamped metal ceiling tiles that I’ve seen in beautiful restaurants or hotels!

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