Repeating Patterns

Repeating Patterns. They're so rewarding to make and to see the negative space created by them. While it involves A LOT of tracing and painting with guache, it's worth it. I am taking a second year course in repeating patterns to have the time to do more of them, even though I learned the ropes in intro screeprinting.

A repeat made on the computer out of a photograph of a piece of fabric I dyed. It's available on Spoonflower (more to come!) and here it is in the fabric sample!

 Some ink and pencil studies

 

 A repeat painted with water colour (above)
colour ways of that pattern painted in guache (below)

working on making it digitally reproducible, still needs work!

 

 drawing leaves at varying states in the fall (above), the pencil and tracing paper all over repeat (below)