Den Long - a Vietnamese Lantern

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Have you ever been to Berlin for the Whit long weekend?

You could easily end up around the Carnival of the World Cultures. Different kind of music and food and parades all around.

A feast of colors, of people, of happiness.

This year it was the first time I saw it with Zentangle eyes. I see patterns everywhere,

On the last day I was checking the stands, to eat and drink new stuff, and maybe buy some clothes.

And right there I was struck by the colors of the lanterns at a Vietnamese stand.

After having walked some kilometres to check each and every stand around, I stopped and started drawing. I just saw some patterns in the tanglepatterns mailing list, and started to draw also a tree-of-life-like pendant and the lanterns.

Den Long, F-Clawin, Cirque, Orciolo, Dark Busters, Yumemi, Harmoony. 9 June 2025

The lanterns decorating the stand. Arent they cute?
Two of them made it to my messy place. One of the best souvenirs I ever bought.

The first tea bags.
Den Long. 10 June 2025

Here Den Long did not come out so nice, but mixing it with Printemps in a doodle way helped somehow.
Den Long, Printemps. 10 June 2025

Probably time for the deconstruction, right?
This is the first version. The last example is far from optimal, but this is why I understood that I have to do another version. The first deconstruction is a study, then after some time I can do better.
Den Long, 10-11 June 2025

And then a more refined version, with less text.
Den Long, Mooka, Yumemi, Hollibaugh, Membranart, Essessesse. 16-18 July 2025

And another couple of examples.
Den Long, Tanbrella, Sez. 20-21 July 2025

And a missing part of the deconstruction, that makes it easier to do the ribbon.
Den Long, Ribbon Deconstruction. 24 July 2025

I did my best to do a nice composition here, and I think it worked. Consider I started tangling only a couple of weeks before.

Den Long, Trelina, Borbz, Crescent Moon, Cruffle, Flux. 10 June 2025

This is one of the nicest tangles, inspired by the headquarters deconstruction for Sez.
Den Long, Sez. 20 July 2025

And here the last tea bags. I usually train here a bit to find something that could go in the deconstruction page as a good example.
Den Long, Hokusai, Essessesse, Fünf, Lotus Pods 18 July 2025

Den Long, Yumemi, Essessesse,Mooka, Hollibaugh, Membranart. 17 July 2025

Last but not least, another page inspired from the Carnival. It looks more like a doodle, but it is also fine.
Pots-N-Pans, Bakery, Winflo. 7 June 2025

My patterns
Den Long


Zentangle Original Patterns

Other Patterns
Bakery, Aida Rico, CZT
Borbz, Rita Nikolajeva CZT
Cirque, Chris Gerstner, CZT
Cruffle, Sandy Hunter, CZT
Dark Busters, Diana Marshall.
F-Clawin, Alla Leonidova
Fünf, Denise Rudd CZT
Harmoony, Kaori Nagasaku, CZT
Hokusai, Sayomi Koike, CZT
Lotus Pods, Margaret Bremner, CZT
Membranart, Tomàs Padrós, CZT
Orciolo, Susanna Redaelli, CZT
Pots-N-Pans, Sayantika Ray
Tanbrella, Yoko Kaga, CZT
Trelina, Eni Oken
Winflo, Nadine Roller, CZT
Yumemi, Shie Naritomi, CZT

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