Hello there my tangling friends, welcome to another week of fresh tangle inspiration. I’m honored you choose to keep me company this fine Monday 🙂
That was quite a weekend for we sports fans with COPA América and UEFA Euro2024 quarterfinals in the football world, dazzling Tour de France stages, and wrapping up the activities was Sir Lewis Hamilton‘s fantastic and historic victory in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in Formula 1. This is shaping up to be a great week of top flight semifinal football matches starting tomorrow …
Oh, right!! You’re here for the tangles …
Our super easy one to start the week is Zenyata from Canadian tangler Cyndi Knapp. Regulars will recognize Cyndi’s name right away for her large collection of tangles and tutorials on the site. Be sure to check them out!
Cyndi introduces her latest:
Zenyata started off with the ZIA string and its simplistic elements evolved from there. The name is just one that popped into my head and stuck no matter what other names I came up with. Sometimes the first idea is the best!
Zenyata with Arrowheads (v)
It’s a very easy rice type pattern. Like Kazique, it works well as a stand alone, a ribbon or in a grid. Its versatility doesn’t stop there…if tangled large enough, fill is easily changed as shown in the Zentangle below. Having said that, the pattern’s most striking look (I think) is as shown in the Steps and other illustrations.
Step 3 is optional as you still get the look without the aura line. It just accentuates that element of the pattern and allows for small embellishments between the two lines if desired.
Cyndi illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Zenyata below and demonstrates it in a duotangle tile with the Zentangle-original Tipple. Here Cyndi’s shading adds an interesting dimension to her tile.
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Gorgeous tangle!!!Thank you!
Very nice work, thanks for sharing, like this new tangle very much.
I love it, Cyndi! Your imagination seems limitless! Thanks for continuing to submit your amazing tangle decompositions to Linda for publication.
This is great! I would never have thought to use C-Stem as a leaf-fill! I’m always looking for new & interesting leaf-fill patterns. Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful and so relaxing to draw! I love the little “african” feeling it has and the various possibilities I can guess to use it. You are very talented. Thank you!
Super beautiful tangle! Thank you very much!
Amazing pattern! Thank you so much!
Beautiful pattern! Thank you for sharing!