How to draw ZIGOLI

Greetings my friends on this Good Friday Easter weekend, and our first tangle in April.

Zigoli is from Canadian CZT Deb Bowyer and it’s her first on the site.

A tangleation of the Zentangle®-original Tripoli, Zigoli is a fun and easy ribbon-style tangle.

Deb writes,

I am Deb Bowyer, CZT23, held in April of 2016 in Providence, Rhode Island. I live in Fort St. John, British Columbia – Canada – which is a very rural and remote area in the northeast of our beautiful province.

I discovered Zentangle in 2013 in the summer at a family French camp. A young adult was sitting in the camping area with a large piece of poster board and a big Sharpie. She was drawing patterns. When I asked her what she was doing she explained it was Zentangle and to “Google it”. I watched her finish that project over the week. It was a beautiful – but very representational – piece of art depicting a cityscape.

I didn’t “Google” it until the following year when I was laid off from my career with our local school district after twenty five years of service. I was in a dark place emotionally and I didn’t know what I was going to do with myself. Work defined me in a way. So I went online and searched out Zentangle. I joined some Facebook groups; I ordered some inexpensive supplies – not very nice ones mind you – and I bought a few books.

I started to tangle. I found that it was helping me to emotionally heal and that I was feeling less stress. Things I truly needed in my life. I quickly decided that this was what I was looking for and that I wanted to teach others. I signed up for the spring session of CZT training. I was hooked. The rest, they say, is history!

I’ve been teaching since May of 2016 and went online last year during Covid. I haven’t looked back. I love sharing this art method with people and meeting new friends all over the world.

I’m a huge lover of “fragments” and have taught several classes using them. This border pattern came from the love of the Tripoli themed fragment. It starts with a “zigzag” and incorporates Tripoli – hence the name of “Zigoli”.

Deb illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Zigoli below where it stars as the focal in a Zentangle® tile with the Zentangle-originals Diva Dance, Flux and Hollis.

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Happy Easter!

With love and gratitude xx

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