Over the past week I’ve been experimenting with doing more manipulation of the source image before transforming it geometrically — increasing the color saturation and using brush effects. It started with a series of English Setter pictures that I enhanced with a watercolor technique. Then, using similar techniques, I tried manipulating the color [...]
Coming back from vacation it has been hard to find time to make designs, but last night I was expecting to play table tennis, only to discover that they were sanding the floors. So having a free evening, I made this new design. It’s another attempt to deal with a fundamental quality of [...]
The colors, that is, not the fruit or the ground cover. I took this picture several years ago in Virginia. The bold bright line of the stick and the shadows, colors and curves in the leaves have been the basis for many patterns.
Here I’ve arranged it into a nine-sided pattern with six, four [...]
In an earlier post I alluded to the fact that source material with the highest connectivity tends to have a limited range of color. Here’s an excellent example. I took this picture of a pile of brush when we were camping in Maine. Neutral colors but lots of geometric possibilities provided by [...]
I keep discovering byproducts of my tools that allow new geometric effects. For this design I started with a black and white checkered design and transformed it into a pattern of eights in black and white. Then I went back and colored the checkered design, using dark colors for the black panels and lighter ones [...]
I’m very excited about this pattern. It comes from a photo of frosty cornstalks lying in a muddy field near Cooperstown, NY, early in the morning.
The details are stunning and I think they come together in an harmonious whole. I love the way you can keep taking different paths through the work and [...]
This weekend I’ve been developing a template for round patterns. Overall they are 16 sided, with three eight-sided designs along each “spoke”. For variety, alternate spokes have variations on the eight-sided designs. For the first time I explicitly set out to design a template that would be easy to trim around the edges, so the [...]
Lately I’ve been imagining what someone would like on their living room wall.
Large. Colorful. Beautiful. Intriguing, but not so demanding that it dominates the room. Something you find new beauty in as time goes on. Visitors point out aspects you’ve never noticed. With a story behind it, perhaps.
Then I thought about what kind of geometric [...]
Two thirds of the searches leading people to this blog lately have involved black and white patterns. Here’s a black and white pattern!
Clicking on it takes you to my Imagekind gallery.
Of course I couldn’t resist playing around with it. The variation I like best is rendered in a coppery metal, with a textured [...]
In this post I showed the underlying design of a pattern in two forms, a red outline of the panels
and a black and white pattern showing the reflected and non-reflected panels.
[Note: If you arrived at this page looking for black and white patterns, you may also be interested in Wearable Geometric Designs or free tiling [...]
