Happy Friday!
And pffft! goes July, am I right? Back-to-school ads are already rampant. Gad.
Today’s fun Jax tangle is the second named Jax on the site. The first Jax by tangler Vera Giesbrecht was from WAY in the early days of TanglePatterns, be sure to check out hers too.
However today’s Jax (Jax II?) is from California CZT Kim Kohler and it’s her first on the site.
Kim is from the CZT16 (2014) class and she writes, “I’m pleased to say that I have finally created a new tangle pattern!”
Kim introduces herself and shares how Zentangle® helped her through a traumatic health challenge,
I live in Elk Grove, California which is just south of Sacramento (so Northern California).
I heard about Zentangle when I was going through treatment for breast cancer in 2012. My doctors misdiagnosed me for over a year, so when they finally diagnosed me, I was stage 3c. Treatment was horrific, so when I found Zentangle, I was happy that I could distract myself and also get back to drawing, which I had loved to do as a kid.
Once I recovered from treatment, I traveled to RI to become a CZT. Best decision of my life (besides marrying my wife of course). Zentangle gives me calm when my body reminds me of the trauma it has been through. Zentangle has also brought me a whole community and some very close friends that I never would have known.
As you’ll no doubt observe, Jax shares DNA with the Zentangle-originals Rixty and Pokeroot/Pokeleaf.
Kim illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Jax below and she shows us how it can also be used as a ribbon or border/frame around a tile as well on its own or combined with other tangles, in this case with Pokeroot. My example is a bit of a wild garden 🙂
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- 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.
- "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.
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July 28, 2023 | 
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Congratulations Kim well done. Darla Rae Duffy
I am enjoying JAX not only as a fun memory of my childhood, but as a playmate to rixty.
Fun one Kim and I had to go look up Vera’s too. Both fun, but so different So JAX 1 and JAX 2
So fun Kim! Congratulations on pattern number 1..I’m sure more to come! Thanks for sharing.
I just discovered your lovely tangle, Kim, after reading about you on the CZT Family Tree. Congratulations for being a CZT that zentangle.com chose to highlight! Also … Congratulations on being a survivor! You’ve made a difference to others in your teachings!