The Swallow Kingdom
3015 North 31st Street
Tacoma, WA 98407
ph: 253 212 0218
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Patterns
Patterns are creations I love to make because I can apply them to almost everything I make.
Tessellated patterns are my favorite type of pattern. I have started playing with my swallow muse and creating a variety of patterns that I can print on paper or fabric and stamp into clay.
The starting point for me in creating these patterns is to select a triangle type or a square or rectangle and create a drawing that I know will tessellate. Tessellate means, creating a pattern that will not overlap or have gaps in it and will most likely repeat endlessly. and on a 2D shape or a 3D form.
I love patterns because they are everywhere, which makes them a great tool to connect a lot of the art mediums I like to work with.
This is a Swallow Pattern
that I drew out on paper that I wanted to tessellate
inside the boundaries of a rectangle.
This is what the above pattern looks like
repeated four times.
Just think of this repeated 8 times
and each multiple repeat sometimes
creates new shapes and patterns!
This pattern can be layed out in a
grid pattern, brick pattern or
a half drop pattern that I prefer to call my
vertical brick layout.
Grid vertical
Swallow Pattern
Grid Horizontal
Swallow Pattern
Brick Vertical or Half Drop
Swallow Pattern
Brick Horizontal or simply Brick
Swallow Pattern
3015 North 31st Street
Tacoma, WA 98407
ph: 253 212 0218
artkingd