How to draw SCALLOPS

Scallops is a tangle pattern that first appears in CZT® Suzanne McNeill’s Zentangle 3 and again later in Julie Eakes’ Clay Classics book.

I get easily confused when drawing some repeating shapes. My brain wants to make the shapes meet up in odd places.

For me it helped here to visualize the rows of Scallops on a diagonal when drawing the initial curves – in other words in this small square and starting in the lower left corner, the first row has one scallop, the second row has 2, the third has 3, and so on. I wish I had more time to practice all these tangles because I do know that the more I do, the better they get. And the more fun they are to draw once I get the hang of them.

Suzanne illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing her Scallops, here. UPDATE: Early in the Summer of 2014 Suzanne McNeill’s blog was removed and all the posts and images were lost. The site is being reconstructed as much as possible but the links will no longer be the same. Many of her patterns on TanglePatterns can quite easily be figured out. For those that might be a little more difficult, Suzanne has graciously given me permission to post her copyright-protected images on TanglePatterns for your convenience.

Image © DESIGN ORIGINALS by Suzanne McNeill and used with permission, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Please feel free to refer to the step outs to recreate this tangle in your Zentangles and ZIAs, or link back to this page. However the artist and TanglePatterns.com reserve all rights to these images and they should not be pinned, reproduced or republished. Thank you for respecting these rights.

Check out the tag suzannem for more of Suzanne’s patterns on TanglePatterns.com.

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