How to draw WEDGE

Wedge is a new grid-based tangle from Canadian tangler, Rosemary Turpin and it’s her first on the site.

Rosemary is from Montreal, Quebec, and first became enthralled with Zentangle® early this summer.

She writes,

The City of Montreal is full of artistic people and opportunities to do, see and buy art of all kinds and I’ve lived there for most of my life. But there are no CZTs here yet, they all live off the Island of Montreal so far.

So I’ve been learning Zentangle patterns from the Internet and various books. I’m retired now, so I’m probably a little late to consider teaching Zentangle as a career (always assuming I got my CZT!) but I’m enjoying so many aspects of its practice.

So far, I’ve drawn over 60 tiles and twelve ZIAs. Recently I was offered a month-long show in a small but trendy local restaurant (in September 2016) and I’m thrilled about that!

To share one’s excitement about Zentangle one-on-one with a friend or two, non-commercially, is a natural. But to TEACH Zentangle, it’s never too late to become a CZT! In fact, I’d venture a conservative guess that more than half of all CZTs are in the retirement “generation”. This page explains more from Zentangle HQ on the difference between sharing and teaching. And this page explains much about what is involved in becoming a CZT.

Information about training seminars for 2016 can be found on the ZENTANGLES > TEACHING ZENTANGLE menu on the top of any page on TanglePatterns.com.

For my example of Wedge, I didn’t add all the auras in Rosemary’s Step 4 because I liked what it looked like at the stage where I stopped with a little white space left. 🙂 But as you’ll see in the examples that follow, choosing which areas to aura or fill in will produce many varied looks to Wedge.

Rosemary illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Wedge here and features it in a simple monotangle.

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In this example, Rosemary shows another simple variation.

Check out the tag rosemaryt for more of Rosemary’s tangles on TanglePatterns.com.

String Suggestions

It’s often possible to enlarge a basic tangle and use it for a String.

For example a single grid tangle square (or “seed”, or "fragment") can be penciled on your tile then you can tangle in the sections created. As Bijou says, “Sometimes I even leave a section blank; which is occasionally my best choice!”

This simple idea makes all kinds of Strings possible.

And remember, in Zentangle there’s no right-side-up!

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