TWELVE DAYS OF ZENTANGLE HOLIDAY PROJECTS

A Zentangle Christmas Tradition: "Twelve Days of Zentangle" Holiday Project Inspiration

The Twelve Days of Zentangle is an annual holiday tradition from Zentangle HQ begun in 2013 where Rick and Maria and the HQ crew lead us through twelve consecutive days of tangling together. In 2017 this series was combined with Zentangle's Project Packs.

In December of each year shown in the following list Zentangle HQ have published a 12-day themed series of posts or videos with cool project ideas for the holiday season. Check out the links for the "Twelve Day" series for HQ's creative inspiration to get your holiday projects underway.

1. December 2013: Ideas using ATC tiles (Zentangle ATC tiles are no longer available but the ideas can easily be adapted)
2. December 2014: [No series this year]
3. December 2015: Bijou and His Wise Bijouisms (Exploring a few of the 24 Bijouisms and "creating something fun with them")
4. December 2016: Introducing Zentangle's 3Z Tiles
5. December 2017: Project Pack #2 – A Stroll Down Memory Lane (Reminiscing about the tiles, tangles, and techniques of Zentangle's past)
6. December 2018: Project Pack #4 – Making a Zentangle Spinner (Making a tool to help choose tangles)
7. December 2019: Project Pack #7 – Light and Shadow (Introducing Zentangle's new Gray tiles)
8. December 2020: Project Pack #12 – Zentangle Renaissance (Exploring Zentangle's Renaissance tiles)
9. December 2021: Project Pack #16 – Keeping Score (Using an embossing stylus on Zentangle tiles)
10. December 2022: Project Pack #19 – Zentomology
11. December 2023: Project Pack #22 – Exploring the Spiral (Introducing Zentangle's new pre-strung 5xPhive and Phi tiles)
12. December 2024: Stay tuned.

Related Links

1. Looking for tangles by Artist or Type? For details visit the ABOUT > HOW TO FIND TANGLES BY ARTIST OR TYPE page on the top menu bar of any page on the site.
2. What is a Zentangle? — if you are new to the Zentangle Method, start here for the fundamentals.
3. Zentangle terminology — a glossary of terms used in this art form.
4. How to use the site — an excellent free video tutorial showing how to use the site as well as pointing out lots of useful features you might have missed.
5. Linda's List of Zentangle-Original Patterns — here is the complete list of original tangles (aka "official tangles") created and introduced by founders Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas, including those not published online. If you are new to the Zentangle Method I highly recommend learning a few of the published Zentangle classics first.
6. "A Zentangle has no up or down and is not a picture of something, so you have no worries about whether you can draw a hand, or a duck. You always succeed in creating a Zentangle." Thus patterns that are drawings of a recognizable naturalistic or actual object, figure, or scene, are not tangles. A pattern is not always a tangle — here's what makes a tangle. TIP: tangles never start with pencil planning.
   • Un motif n’est pas toujours un tangle — Qu’est-ce qu’un tangle ?
   • Un diseño no es siempre un tangle — ¿Qué es un tangle?
7. How to submit your pattern deconstruction to TanglePatterns
8. For lots of great FREE tutorials on TanglePatterns, click on the TUTORIALS link in the pink alphabetic menu bar below the tangle images at the top of any page.
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