Here’s a first draft of one I’m working on. DNA meets CPU.
Archive for February, 2008
2.11.08
February 11, 20082.10.08
February 10, 2008I’ve done a bunch of new drawings for my patterns, but haven’t had the chance to scan/trace/manipulate them to my satisfaction. I’ll try to get that done tomorrow.
I’ve been kinda into helices lately. (The answer to my question posed yesterday, “Is ‘helixes’ even a word?” is no, for those of you who care.)
Pattern of the Day 2.9.08: herringbone
February 9, 2008Once again I take my inspiration from Henry’s doodling on his school papers. Here is his drawing, which is not exactly a classic herringbone, but certainly looks like it. He didn’t know what herringbone was until I told him.
And here is my digitized, re-drawn, less interesting rendition of his sketch. When I studied how he had done it, I realized that it is the same color combination in every 3 line square, with every other one rotated 90 degrees. I used the same colors in my versions, and did some different things with the outline. Interesting how the pattern changes depending on the outline colors, and when the outline is eliminated it looks different again
I also took the liberty of scanning the front of Henry’s schoolwork page, because I thought it was quite amusing. Especially the last answer. He gave me permission to use it, although he didn’t really understand why I would want to. It was an assignment in which the class was considering the themes in Hamlet.
2.8.08
February 8, 2008I did a new version of the A pattern.
2.7.08
February 7, 2008Berries, cherries, trees, whatever.
2.6.08
February 6, 2008This one is based on a design that I painted on the wall of my secret closet hideout when I was a kid. My wall was painted in bright primary colors. It wasn’t until college, when I had a job doing art at Slo-Bird Studios, that I became aware of more subtle colors. I was working on a watercolor for a poster contest, and I had done the whole thing in primaries. My boss, Michael, who was (and is) an incredible artist, looked at my work and said something like, “Why don’t you try colors that are slightly off primary?” I had never thought to do anything like that before…so I tried a yellow-orange instead of yellow, a red-orange in place of red, and a bright purpley-blue instead of the primary blue. And it looked much more interesting. I don’t think I’ve used straight primary colors since.
2.5.08
February 5, 2008
2.4.08
February 4, 2008Little boxes.
2.3.08
February 3, 2008This pattern is a remake of an illustration I did in college, for the cover of the alt monthly newspaper. The story was called “The Puzzling Problem of Pet Overpopulation” and was written by Liesl Schillinger, who is now a writer for the New York Times Book Review. Oh, the talent that came out of Stillwater, Oklahoma.
I haven’t quite worked out the best way to treat this pattern. But I think it has potential.
2.2.08
February 2, 2008
