How to draw LAZY LEAF

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Lazy Leaf is from Maryland CZT Angie Gittles and this makes her 29th tangle on the site.

Lazy Leaf is another in Angie’s series inspired by pottery of the American Southwest. Be sure to check out the rest of her series as well as all of her fun tangles. We’ll have more of Angie’s lovely Southwest pottery-inspired tangles coming in the new year.

Angie shares her inspiration for Lazy Leaf:

Lazy Leaf was inspired by motifs used on San Ildefonso and Acoma pottery. Lazy leaves are usually bold black shapes lying at an angle, often repeated in rhythmic patterns.

In my sample, you’ll see that Lazy Leaf can be used whole or in half. It can be anchored to a border or added to the end of a stem.

We learned a little about the San Ildefonoso Pueblo with Angie’s Farrow tangle. On Wikipedia we learn about the Acoma Pueblo:

Acoma Pueblo is a Native American pueblo approximately 60 miles (97 km) west of Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States.

Four communities make up the village of Acoma Pueblo: Sky City (Old Acoma), Acomita, Anzac, and McCartys. These communities are located near the expansive Albuquerque metropolitan area, which includes several large cities and towns, including neighboring Laguna Pueblo. The Acoma Pueblo tribe is a federally recognized tribal entity, whose historic land of Acoma Pueblo totaled roughly 5,000,000 acres (2,000,000 ha). Today, much of the Acoma community is primarily within the Acoma Indian Reservation. Acoma Pueblo is a National Historic Landmark.

… The Acoma have continuously occupied the area for over 2,000 years, making this one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States (along with Taos and Hopi pueblos). Acoma tribal traditions estimate that they have lived in the village for more than two thousand years.

Angie illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Lazy Leaf below and she features it in a tile where she used one of these graceful motifs as a string and filled it with the Zentangle®-original Shattuck which in turn was filled with Crescent Moon (Shattuck Moon?). They kind of have a life of their own, don’t they?

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