How to draw PAMPA

By Linda Farmer, CZT ~ April 13th, 2022

Greetings friends, great to enjoy your company again!

Today’s Pampa tangle is from Dutch CZT Petra Blonk and it’s her first on the site.

Pampa is a ribbon-style tangle based on a continuous line “spine” composed of the letters X and Y that you can then embellish in a host of ways and Petra includes more than enough ideas to get you going.

Pampa was inspired by a photograph Petra saw on a tangling group, as she explains after she introduces herself:

My name is Petra Blonk from the Netherlands. I first learned about Zentangle® in March 2018 when I was at a scrapbooking weekend.

A friend started drawing beautiful patterns on a paper napkin at dinner. Doodling I thought. But she said “No not doodles, they are Zentangles. And you can easily draw these too!”

Later I enjoyed several Zentangle lessons by 2 different CZTs; Anoeska and Stefanie. It gave me so much pleasure as I had not been drawing since high school.

When the first CZT seminar was to take place in Europe I immediately signed up! I took the train to Frankfurt (Germany) and became an CZT EU 1 in May 2019.

Zentangle is truly universal. I love the positive atmosphere of the Zentangle community. So much creativity and inspiration.

I am still discovering new things about tangling almost every day. You can find tangles everywhere around you.

It gives me real zenflow in this hectic world full of uncertainty and stress.

Just breathe, sit and draw. At home, at the busstop, at the trainstation, at the airport, at the dentist, at the hospital, on holiday ..….

Pampa is named after a photograph of a beautiful patterned ceiling in a post office in Pampa (US). … Between all the beautiful painted patterns a tiny golden painted border got my eye. This gave me inspiration for Pampa. It is a very simple tangle.

Reminds me a bit of Eke. You can draw it completely without even lifting your pen off the paper. Just an X and a V and repeat and repeat…..

Don’t forget to keep interchanging X and V. That can happen if you are on autopilot (LOL) as it is so flowing out of your pen.

You can make a lot of variations by adding stripes, triangles and circles. Or use curves instead of straight lines. And hearts instead of triangles.

Petra illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Pampa below where she includes a pretty monotangle with several ideas for varying and embellishing, as well as a few margin notes with more ideas 🙂

How to draw the Zentangle pattern Pampa, tangle and deconstruction by Petra Blonk. Image copyright the artist and used with permission, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

reference only. Please feel free to refer to the images to recreate this tangle in your personal Zentangles and ZIAs. However the artist and TanglePatterns.com reserve all rights to the images and they must not be publicly pinned, altered, reproduced or republished. (Small side note: if you look at the legalese in Pinterest, you are legally responsible for obtaining permission to post every photo that gets ‘Pinned’. Giving credit or sharing the source link doesn’t count.) Thank you for respecting these rights. “We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.” ~ Albus Dumbledore

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We don’t teach complex elements such as hearts, stars or flowers. Tangles are also non-representational.”

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