Repeating Patterns (M6 Chpt 5)

 I looked at encaustic floor tiles in my last chapter and decided to continue with this theme for chapter 5, this may not have been the best idea as I think it interfered with my creative thought process. However.....

I worked with four different patterns: a) a diagonally meeting tile, b) a tile corner pattern, c) a tessellated pattern, d) two elements of a tile. 

Repeat 1

This is a very simple repeating pattern but the crossing point gave the tile interest:

1) Using an irregular grid, painting in brusho powder. This gave a faintly arabic effect:

2) Using a square grid with pastels and pencil

3) Keeping the pattern but using colour and resist: sorry no working pictures

Pattern 2

This was the corner piece of a medieval encaustic tile.

I painted a sheet of newspaper in black gesso and made numerous repeats of this detail:

The original pattern:

And playing with pattern ideas:

Pattern 3)

Tesselation

I used this pattern first in conjunction with the patterns above, to create a double layer of repeating patterns:

Laying the grid over some of the ideas for activity 2:

I decided to work with  pattern below:

The design transferred and cleaned up:

I forgot to take working pictures: the piece was worked in crayon, brusho and lumitec fine gold paints, dropped into wet brusho:

Second and third pieces for this were worked in black ink on white paper. Firstly alternating squares and secondly rectangles of varying width:

Fourth pattern

Tile details:

I worked two ideas for this piece. Firstly painting on book pages:

Creating a circular pattern. I started this with the notion of a circular stained glass window going round my head. I changed tack after the first go and re thought the idea:

Claire Gordon

26/07/21