Zentangle Untangled (8 page)

Authors: Kass Hall

BOOK: Zentangle Untangled

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Step 2: Draw evenly spaced lines across the tile—about 5 should fit nicely, but this will depend on how big you want your honeycomb to be.

Then turn your tile 90 degrees and draw lines across to give your tile a “square brick” appearance.

Step 3: Across each row, connect the bottom third of each vertical line to the corners of the square beneath it. The pattern will begin to look like roofs on houses. Do this to all of the squares.

Step 4: Turn the tile 180 degrees. Repeat step 3. You’ll see a zigzag effect take shape across your tile.

Step 5: Fill in the zigzag effect as desired. My suggestion is to solidly color one direction and put a pattern (I’ve used fine lines) in the other.

Step 6: Shade as desired. I suggest choosing one part of each shape (for example, the left-hand side) and shade that area in each hexagon.

Tip

This tangle really comes to life with shading. See more details about shading in
Shading Zentangles
.

HONEYTREE

Sakura Pigma Micron pen, graphite pencil

Frippery
Melissa Hoopes, CZT

I remember the day I got the email from my friend Melissa saying she had a tangle for this book. I opened the attachment and thought, “Uh-oh.” It looked difficult. So I had a try—and it isn’t difficult. In fact, I love it.
Frippery
just takes some practice.

Note: About ten Zentangle tiles went to the big paper mill in the sky as I practiced this tangle. May I suggest you try it first on something a little more economical when practicing this tangle!

Materials

Sakura Pigma Micron pen (.01 Black)

Graphite pencil

Fabriano Tiepolo printmaking paper (3
¹⁄
₂″ [8.9cm] tile)

Step 1: Draw 2 curved, parallel lines with your pencil. With your pen, starting in the middle of the 2 pencil lines, draw a diagonal line to the top line. Change direction and draw a diagonal line to the lower pencil line. In a continuous pen stroke, create a loop under the lower line and take it back up to the middle to the same level you began.

Step 2: Return to the original starting point, and draw 2 lines to complete the diamond. This leads to repeating the pattern created in step 1.

Step 3: Continue to repeat the pattern and completing the diamonds until it reaches the desired length.

Step 4: On the inside of each diamond draw a smaller diamond.

Step 5: Decorate as desired. Melissa drew a circle inside the inner diamond. Then she added a cross in the middle of the circle and filled in around the circle.

Here you can see some variations that Melissa provided, as well as a few of my own.

Tip

If you find the curved lines a bit of a stretch to begin with, use straight lines like I have in the variations tile. This may help you get the feel for
Frippery
.

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