WEEK #11 -IN CELEBRATION OF FLOWERS CONT.
Hello artists!
I googled 'patterns in art' and found this:
The ability to 'recognize patterns' is a baseline skill of humans and identifying patterns in paintings is a practice that tends to have a soothing psychological effect on the viewer.
Designing with 'pattern' in mind can help visually pull a painting together, and set up a rhythm to help guide the eye, and ultimately make for a strong composition. Patterns don’t need to be an identical repetition like checkerboard or zig zag…. they can be irregular, but repeated. Light/shadow, a repeated line, color or shape. How much or little of a pattern is up to you. I find simple is often times best. Editing your piece down to the strongest elements.
So, your art challenge as you paint your flower subject this week—design with ‘pattern in mind’...
Have fun and enjoy the flowers!
Artist Janet Filemyr:
"I spent a few days studying pansies. I sketched and did a painting study.
This painting was a journey of learning."
This painting was a journey of learning."
Artist Virginia Naughton: "Celebration of Flowers Continued- kept me busy. So easy to get lost in the incredible faces, patterns of pansies. Not the best flower pick for me who tends to get lost in detail as it is. I tried to stay loose and sketchy as in the foliage but..."
Artist Sarah Tanzer's watercolors of the Vale of Cashmere in Prospect Park.
In each, the branches are wonderful against the foliage and lead our gaze down the path.
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