How to draw MYSEALIAM

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I’m back today with a Christmas Bonus, a new Zentangle®-original tangle.

The Zentangle®-original Mysealiam tangle created by co-founder Maria Thomas was one of six new tangles first introduced at the CZT-only zenAgain annual conference last month.

Yesterday in Day 4 of Project Pack 19 — the 2022 edition of Zentangle’s traditional Twelve Days of Zentangle — Maria adds the new Mysealiam tangle to our project thus publicly releasing the first of the six new tangles. (As the others are introduced publicly by Zentangle, they too will be added to the site.)

Note: We’re a few days into the Twelve Days of Zentangle, 2022 Edition and if you’ve missed it or simply don’t have time for it right now, I’ve got your back.

Next week when the series wraps up I’ll be posting my traditional TanglePatterns Project Pack Summary with links to all the video tutorials AND a detailed summary of each.

Maria explains how this tangle came by its name: “Mysealiam was named for our grandson Liam, who is all about the ocean.”

Maria demonstrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Mysealiam in this video:

For Maria’s printable step-by-step illustration showing how to tangle Mysealiam, see this page on the Zentangle blog.

Mysealiam is a tangle that really enjoys some elbow room for its manta-ray-like wings to float around, I found my example size “tile” a very tight fit indeed! I recommend tangling large …

Tutorial for Embedded Letter Technique

At 10:20 in the video above Maria adds an embedded letter. Zentangle HQ included a video tutorial demonstrating this technique as part of their Kitchen Table Tangles series.

You can find that entire video tutorial and the story behind it here: Kitchen Table Tangles – Zentangle video exploring the Embedded Letters technique.

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UPDATE March 27, 2023 – Project Pack #20. As part of the Blossoming Tangles project pack, Maria tangles Mysealiam in this video:

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Related Links

1. Looking for tangles by Artist or Type? For details visit the ABOUT > HOW TO FIND TANGLES BY ARTIST OR TYPE page on the top menu bar of any page on the site.
2. What is a Zentangle? — if you are new to the Zentangle Method, start here for the fundamentals.
3. Zentangle terminology — a glossary of terms used in this art form.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. "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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7. How to submit your pattern deconstruction to TanglePatterns
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