How to draw A-FRAME

Greetings y’all, dee-lighted to have you here again with me for another new week.

This morning in Providence, RI, the last CZT certification class of 2018 got underway. CZT#32, wow. My CZT#7 class seems so long ago and now so many more CZTs are sharing the Zentangle Method™ around the world. It’s a good thing. (See below for the 2019 seminar dates, just announced.)

Today’s A-Frame tangle is from Bel Air, Maryland CZT, Angie Gittles from the CZT29 class, it’s her fourth tangle on the site.

Angie writes,

“A-Frame came about when I was playing around with my initial ‘A’ in a grid, turning it and twisting it various ways, and using various fills. Once I filled the outer sections with auras, I knew that was the one I wanted to use.

I particularly like the variation of turning every other one 180 degrees.”

From the ZENTANGLES > ZENTANGLE TERMINOLOGY page: A Dingsplatz is a technique introduced by the Zentangle folks at 1440 Multiversity in Santa Cruz, CA in September 2018. It starts with a large roundish frame using an Eke-shaped looping line. It is further embellished with auras and filled with other tangles. (Visit the terminology page to see Maria’s example.)

A-Frame is so simple and yet it produces a complex-looking overall effect, especially as Angie demonstrates below when you flip or rotate adjacent squares (fragments!) in the grid.

A-Frame is the kind of tangle my Mom loves, she calls them “over-unders” and I have them grouped together under the tag weave.  A touch of shading makes a huge difference to the overall effect in this type of tangle.

Angie illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing A-Frame below where she uses it as a string for her Zentangle tile then fills it with A-Frame variations by rotating or mirroring the fragment. Cool!

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Check out the tag angieg for more of Angie’s tangles on TanglePatterns.com.

CZT certification seminar dates for 2019 announced

Save these dates! Zentangle HQ just announced the dates for CZT teacher certification seminars for 2019. Registration is not open yet but the dates have been given so those who are interested can begin their planning to make it happen.

• CZT 33 – March 31 – April 3, 2019
• CZT 34 – June 16 – 19, 2019

When registration opens I will let you know, and further details can always be found on the ZENTANGLES > TEACHING ZENTANGLE page on the top menu bar of the site.

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