Day Twentyseven

Today we were in the computer suite doing tessellations and I came up with some stunning designs! Very happy.

Then we began our animation class, which consisted of a lot of research on youtube watching really cool videos. Animations with post-it notes and rubix cubes and graffiti. Stunning stuff!

Day Twentyfive

Today we were given a piece of brown paper, which we taped down. Then we were asked to choose a paint, choose a stamp, and fill the brown paper with rows and rows of prints. Then wash the brush and the stamp and start again with a different colour and a different stamp. It was long winded, and a little boring, like a production line, but in the end it was worth it. I wish we had a radio or stereo to listen to, but with the variety of people on the course we would never be able to choose what to listen to... Although a healthy conversation about Rob Zombie Vs White Zombie was sufficient to have me humming Dragula for the rest of the day.

We also scanned in our now unwrapped and dyed pieces of cloth into the computer as we are going to be making digital patterns from them in our own time, unfortunately they are currently too big and in a format Blogger is unable to support so I will have to upload those later.

Day Twentytwo

New project. 2D Pattern Design.

At first I was thinking how the hell am I supposed to make a repeating pattern? They're all so complicated. Turn's out that's not necessarily true. After spending about an hour trying to come up with a few design ideas I could work on later we were given a fat black pen and told to just do a doodle.

Then we had to cut the page into four even pieces and rearrange them.

Then add another doodle in the middle, I chose to mirror the main image.

Then we had to duplicate the pattern.

And so on...this time adding an extra element, I chose to mirror the image again and make it lighter.

Finally we were to add colour. The first simply has a blue background, but the second I spent more time on and tried to give it the British Flag colours.

I am very proud of myself. We will be doing a number of different types of pattern design during this project. This is the hand drawn one, next week I will have photos of the tie-dye patterns we started making today, and homework tonight is to start on the tessellation pattern design, so best get cracking.

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