Stripes and dots in pink and purple

 
 
















Stripes and spots

 

Spots, circles and polka dots.

Is it a coincidence that sibilance is in these words?

In reality this fabric is pink only,

but my camera made areas of the fabric appear purple.

This piece of fabric is one that I am working with at the moment; it is a particularly bold fabric piece. The pinks and the bold graphic patterns that consist of wild cat print patterns,

like the stripes of a tiger and spots of a cheetah, blend together wonderfully. The material itself is lightweight and fairly thin, though not really translucent. The print is very stripe orientated.

As with any other kind of fabric that is produced with saris or shalwar kameezs in mind there is another piece that matches this in terms of colour and print, I imagine this piece is meant to be made into the shalwar/trouser and this above piece as the tunic/dress/kameez.

Hopefully I can find the matching piece to it.    

 

Billboard - a collaged surface

The billboard has become a collage of papers, I just remembered these photos I took when today I saw the billboard that looked so amazing as it was below, now has another advert upon it, covering the lovely torn and worn and wet surface.
Lots of torn papers - segments and odd bits of imagery and words.

Books to go onto shelves

The covers of some books on the topics of business and management 

can have some beautiful book covers, 

a surprise to me as those areas are so complex and alien to me.
It shows pattern influences everyone, 

regardless of interests or abilities or knowledge banks.

 Obviously a book cover needs to be interesting,
but colourful too, well who knew?

Stars may be seen as unoriginal, but in this graphic blue and orange context it really works.
In my own experience I rarely see textbooks or 

non-fiction books that use graphic concepts for their covers. 

The whole what is written inside this book is real,

and so is the photo on the cover

thing has been put to one side here.

Above though is different, but the simple use of rows 

and an almost weave like appearance is taken, using labelled file dividers.
Simple sometimes is better than complex.
I'm sure I've said that before.
But I'm all about repetition, meh.

Next week starting Monday 28th November,
there is going to be a feature of coats all week right here.
Seen as recently I ventured into a charity shop 

with a brilliant collection of lovely woven coats,
makes me itch to paint.

Aztec like Patterns (plus a bit of shiny)

You can't really see the shiny, but trust me,
the material has silver thread running up the pattern.
Click on the images for a closer look.

I googled 'Aztec patterns'
and found various images.
The Aztecs were tribes of people in central Mexico,
their culture a colourful one.

The traditional Aztec patterns,
as found on artifacts and surviving works
show patterns that are angular,
straight backed and not very often curved.
No doubt these patterns would
translate into pixel art very well.