How to draw DESERT FLOWER (2024)

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Welcome back my tangling friends!

Lovely to see you again for another week of creative inspiration 🙂

Recognizing all our tangling friends and CZTs in India the Far East and around the world, today we celebrate the first day of the Diwali festival for 2022.

When you learn what is being honored in this important festival of lights holiday — it “transcends religious lines” — it sure seems like we all could use a little Diwali in our lives:

Diwali is a Hindu religious festival of lights and is one of the most important festivals within Hinduism. The festival usually lasts five days, or six in some regions of India, and is celebrated during the Hindu lunisolar month Kartika (between mid-October and mid-November).

Originally a Hindu festival, Diwali has transcended religious lines and is also celebrated by Jains and Sikhs. It is a major cultural event for the Hindu, Sikh, and Jain diaspora.

One of the most popular festivals of Hinduism, Diwali symbolizes the spiritual “victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance”. ~ Wikipedia

In the lead-up to Deepavali, celebrants prepare by cleaning, renovating, and decorating their homes and workplaces with diyas (oil lamps) and rangolis (colorful art circle patterns). During Diwali, people wear their finest clothes, illuminate the interior and exterior of their homes with diyas and rangoli, perform worship ceremonies of Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity and wealth, light fireworks, and partake in family feasts, where mithai (sweets) and gifts are shared.

So yes, celebrating the spiritual “victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance” seems a very worthy practice for everyone.

Okay, so what do we have for our first tangle of the week …

Desert Flower is from Australian CZT Sue Bailey and it’s her fourth tangle on the site. Sue became a CZT since her previous tangles were introduced.

Sue writes that Desert Flower came about as follows:

[Some time ago] I commented on my friend Anita Weston CZT’s mixed media artwork that it looked like she had added a Sturt’s Desert Pea to one of her pieces. She naturally then wanted to know what that was, and when I sent her a picture, commented that she could see a tangle waiting for deconstruction.

Sturt’s Desert Pea is one of my favourite flowers and it has a lot of emotional connections for me. It reminds me of where I grew up (a town in outback New South Wales called Broken Hill) and the wonder and hope of such an extravagantly beautiful flower appearing in the dry arid outback after winter rains.

Desert Flower is largely composed of orbs and S strokes and has some interesting configurations as Sue demonstrates.

Sue illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Desert Flower below. Sue includes three Zentangle® tiles showing several ways to explore her tangle including “in the round” and ribbon-style versions.

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