Sunday, June 28, 2015

Swings Asunder

I'm working on my homework backstage while volunteering for Swings Asunder. Go see it if you are in Austin, we have three more shows. I'm drawing inspiration from all the aerialists and masked turtle people in wigs. Here's today's pattern:




Saturday, June 27, 2015

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Henna party

Tonight I invited some girlfriends over to practice henna. It's a wonderfully stringy henna from Rajasthan. It was so easy to draw nice lines, and I added a little cosmetic glitter just for fun. Missed out? I have frozen the rest, and need more practice, so let's get together and I'll draw on you.

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Monday, June 22, 2015

Lemon Blossom

I made a lemonade inspired print for this week's Spoonflower contest. I named it "Lemon Party" because I'm a horrible person (don't google that. I'm serious.).  It's now entitled "Lemon Blossom," and apologies for my horrible internet humor.






Sunday, June 21, 2015

Razors

Here's another pattern from Wallpaper Group p2gg. It kinda looks like a razor blade.



Friday, June 19, 2015

Just add imagery...

I recently experimented with adding my Mona Bear imagery to the p3m1 template, and look, a six-headed Maine Coon:


Imagine how bitey and hungry that would be. What a monster!

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Wallpaper Group p4mm

The final wallpaper group! p4mm


Here's the structure:


Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation2.svga centre of rotation of order two (180°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation3.svga centre of rotation of order three (120°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation4.svga centre of rotation of order four (90°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation6.svga centre of rotation of order six (60°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend reflection.svgan axis of reflection.
Wallpaper group diagram legend glide reflection.svgan axis of glide reflection.
 Image and Key: Source: Wikipedia

Check out the Pinterest board

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Wallpaper Group c2mm (cmm)

Weekly pattern Wednesday! It's c2mm:





Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation2.svga centre of rotation of order two (180°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation3.svga centre of rotation of order three (120°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation4.svga centre of rotation of order four (90°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation6.svga centre of rotation of order six (60°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend reflection.svgan axis of reflection.
Wallpaper group diagram legend glide reflection.svgan axis of glide reflection.
 Image and Key: Source: Wikipedia


Here's the related Pinterest board.

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Wallpaper Group p4mg

There's no better way to learn than to get your hands dirty and do it yourself! Making my own wallpaper groups is really helping me understand each group. Today's is p4mg, which has a neat woven quality:


The structure:


Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation2.svga centre of rotation of order two (180°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation3.svga centre of rotation of order three (120°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation4.svga centre of rotation of order four (90°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation6.svga centre of rotation of order six (60°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend reflection.svgan axis of reflection.
Wallpaper group diagram legend glide reflection.svgan axis of glide reflection.
 Image and Key: Source: Wikipedia


Here's a pinboard of group p4mg.

Monday, June 15, 2015

Wallpaper Group p4

P4 is such a fun wallpaper group because it has this spiraling nature:




Fun fact: the Sun Microsystems Logo is also in this group. RIP Sun.
.

OMG, it even spells SUN as it rotates. I love it so much. :(


Here's the structure:


Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation2.svga centre of rotation of order two (180°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation3.svga centre of rotation of order three (120°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation4.svga centre of rotation of order four (90°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation6.svga centre of rotation of order six (60°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend reflection.svgan axis of reflection.
Wallpaper group diagram legend glide reflection.svgan axis of glide reflection.
 Image and Key: Source: Wikipedia


Here's the corresponding Pinterest board.

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Wallpaper Group p3m1


Here's a wallpaper group that I haven't found much of in the wild (and by wild I mean Pinterest): p3m1:


The structure is shown here:




Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation2.svga centre of rotation of order two (180°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation3.svga centre of rotation of order three (120°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation4.svga centre of rotation of order four (90°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation6.svga centre of rotation of order six (60°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend reflection.svgan axis of reflection.
Wallpaper group diagram legend glide reflection.svgan axis of glide reflection.
 Image and Key: Source: Wikipedia

Here's the corresponding Pinterest board.

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Wallpaper Group p6

This is so easy. I can't believe I didn't try MadPattern sooner. Now I can make my own Islamic inspired designs! Here's wallpaper group p6. Note the overlapping lines which distinguish it from p31m.






Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation2.svga centre of rotation of order two (180°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation3.svga centre of rotation of order three (120°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation4.svga centre of rotation of order four (90°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation6.svga centre of rotation of order six (60°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend reflection.svgan axis of reflection.
Wallpaper group diagram legend glide reflection.svgan axis of glide reflection.
 Image and Key: Source: Wikipedia


Here's the corresponding Pinterest Board.

Friday, June 12, 2015

Wallpaper Group P3

More exploration of wallpaper groups:


Here's the structure, nerds:


Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation2.svga centre of rotation of order two (180°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation3.svga centre of rotation of order three (120°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation4.svga centre of rotation of order four (90°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation6.svga centre of rotation of order six (60°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend reflection.svgan axis of reflection.
Wallpaper group diagram legend glide reflection.svgan axis of glide reflection.
 Image and Key: Source: Wikipedia


Thursday, June 11, 2015

Wallpaper Group P31M

I'm still having lots of fun with the MadPattern templates.



For you math nerds out there, here's the underlying structure: 


Key
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation2.svga centre of rotation of order two (180°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation3.svga centre of rotation of order three (120°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation4.svga centre of rotation of order four (90°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation6.svga centre of rotation of order six (60°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend reflection.svgan axis of reflection.
Wallpaper group diagram legend glide reflection.svgan axis of glide reflection.
 Image and Key: Source: Wikipedia


Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Wallpaper Group p6mm


Tonight's pattern is in Wallpaper Group p6mm:




Group p6mm has the following structure:



Key
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation2.svga centre of rotation of order two (180°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation3.svga centre of rotation of order three (120°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation4.svga centre of rotation of order four (90°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend rotation6.svga centre of rotation of order six (60°).
Wallpaper group diagram legend reflection.svgan axis of reflection.
Wallpaper group diagram legend glide reflection.svgan axis of glide reflection.
 Image and Key: Source: Wikipedia

I found this wonderful resource for generating wallpaper group patterns in Illustrator called MadPattern. It's a set of free templates for the 17 groups. It makes pattern generation so easy. I honestly spent more time working on the color scheme than coming up with the design.

I'm also joining a fun artists movement called #weeklypatternwednesday, organized by Smudged Textiles Studio. It's a great blog, go check it out! :)

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Exploring Shiva Paintstiks

Today I experimented with a neat way to decorate fabric: Shiva Paintstiks. This is an oil paint crayon that becomes permanent on fabric. I used some fabric swatches that I dyed over the weekend. You can draw directly on the fabric, just like the coathangers in copper:


You can also create rubbings. I found my wooden block printing stamps from India worked really well for this: