….the word for Word of the Day Challenge is patterns
Patterns are everywhere. Some are man-made and others occur naturally in nature.
Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion
Totem Pole at the ROM
Budda Head
Grid platform on the climbers
Fireworks – Random Pattern
Pattern in Nature
Symmetrical Pattern
Asymetrical Pattern
Artistic Pattern by Kenojuak Ashevak
Persian Rug
Horizontal and Vertical Line Patterns
Diagonal Patterns
Brick Work
…..day 10…playing with patterns
I’ve subscribed to Creative Bug for a few years now and I love the variety of classes you can take. There are knitting, quilting, watercolour, acrylic, sketching, photography, weaving and sewing classes, just to name a few. You can try it out for free and if you like it you can subscribe for about $6.00 a month. Classes that you really like you can hold in your own personal library to pull up whenever you want.
The latest class that I’m following is demonstrated by Lisa Congdon and I love her work. Every day for a month she is filming a video challenge on pattern drawing using watercolours or gauche. Yesterday I worked on a chevron pattern and a harlequin pattern.
https://www.creativebug.com/classseries/single/daily-painting-challenge-31-patterns-to-paint?auto=1
….another great on-line art class with Carla Sonnheim and Lynn Whipple
In December I signed up for a year long on-line art class with two great artists, Carla Sonheim and Lynn Whipple. The class is called Year of the Spark and twice a month each teacher presents a lesson and several fun assignments. So far the assignments have been designed to get our hands moving and look at art and drawing in new ways.
Carla’s first class had us drawing dozens of one line sketches of animals, flowers, and houses and then choosing one favourite and drawing it again using many different types of drawing tools. We had to choose one finished piece in the end and frame it. Here are some of my one liners and my framed piece.
As much as I liked my dog drawings I decided to elaborate on my birds.
As you can see these drawings are intended to be fun and whimsical.
This week Lynn introduced us to pattern drawing and creating cards using people from old photos and a multitude of shapes of cut up papers. I’ve played with the pattern portion of the assignment but I haven’t yet started the card assignment.
The pattern assignment is a warm-up activity but I’m so addicted to this random doodling that it’s taking me hours to finish one page. Tomorrow I’m going to have to try to work faster and maybe use only watercolours to create my patterns. Keep it simple.
Mama Cormier 