How to draw CANTEBANO

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Cantebano is from Spanish CZT Carmen Menchón and it’s her first on the site.

Carmen introduces herself,

My name is Carmen Menchón and I live in Madrid, Spain. Because of my old work in graphic design and my love of painting (lately watercolours) and fine arts in general, I have always had an “artistic radar”.

I discovered that there was some kind of drawing called Zentangle® in 2006-2007 while I was living in Mexico, but I did not delve into the method. It just seemed cool to me, similar to mandalas or drawing with textures … I suppose that in my own designs and works there were already patterns, grids … elements that Zentangle uses as well.

Many years later, during the lock down of 2020 and completely by chance, I learned that there was a method associated with that graphic expression that had caught my attention in its day. And above all, that it was not so much about the drawing as about the process.

I felt very attracted to the maxims “one step at a time” and “no mistakes” so I realized that, to understand the Zentangle philosophy in depth, the best thing I could do was to became CZT even though I didn’t have teaching classes in mind. It was a gift that I wanted to give myself.

Fortunately, I found out about the CZT-EU4 online seminar in March 2021, a year after my rediscovery, and I signed up! And you can’t imagine how grateful I am to have done it.

About her Cantebano tangle Carmen writes,

I’ve deconstructed this pattern based on a tile from a Lebanese restaurant in Las Canteras Beach (Canary Islands) this summer. I called it Cantebano. 

Cantebano is a lovely tangle that can be a little challenging but Carmen includes helpful tips. I found it useful to think of the motif being built more or less on curved Y shapes and used a very light dot grid to help me with proportions. Just make sure the legs of the curvy Y are long enough to accommodate the leaf/pod shape. You’ll notice in some cases Carmen alternates/mirrors their direction, I’ve done mine in the same orientation.

Carmen illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Cantebano below and she offers three tips for making the connections to grow the tangle, I’ve added an enlargement of that section below. Her lovely tiles show a host of ways to use it and to embellish the little leaves/pods.

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Here’s an enlargement of Carmen’s tips showing three ways of connecting the motifs of Cantebano:

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Enjoy your weekend exploring Cantebano and we’ll see you back here again next week!

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