How to draw PAPERMINT

Congratulations to the CZT30 certification graduating class! Another fine group of Zentangle® enthusiasts can venture forth around the world to share the Zentangle love …

Texas CZT Sandy Hunter’s sweet Papermint tangle is the subject of our explorations today.

Sandy writes that she discovered Papermint …

while I tagged along with various members of my family to Chuck E Cheese.

I did, I’m sure, what most normal people do… pretended I was tangling on the beach with a mai tai and not surrounded on all sides by a riot of screaming children. ;o)

Zentangle is so great for that… temporary mental relocation for the cost of a pen and a tile!

Papermint is an absorbing tangle to draw, and as Sandy notes “it is not a fast pattern to draw“. It starts with orbs of various sizes which are then subdivided into sections around the edges. Varying the number of strokes around the circumference of each orb gives a different end result as you can see in my example where I used 6, 8 and 10. Those little strokes are then connected with a “swoop” and I really enjoyed that part of the Papermint construction.

A touch of shading in the centers gives dimension to Papermint, “A little shading adds some oomph… do you see innies or outies?” I see tasty Papermints!

Sandy illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Papermint here on her blog and she gives lots of detailed tips to guide you with some lovely examples to inspire your Papermint efforts.

Sandy’s post also includes a Zentangle tile featuring Papermint together with Zentangle’s dewdrop tangle-enhancer, and a link to CZT Lynn Mead’s Dew Drop tutorial. (You can also find this tutorial link on the ZENTANGLE TERMINOLOGY page.) Dewdrop is one of six Zentangle enhancers which include auras, perfs, rounding, shading and sparkle.

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