Creating Abstract Art: Designing Patterns

Video Transcript

"Another way to develop a non-objective design is to work with a pattern and then multiply it, cut it up, divide it, put it back together again. What I started with is I started with these two images which are both sort of takes on Kaleidoscope images. You know these might be something you'd see in Kaleidoscope which already is a pattern I mean we've got lots of pattern going on here. So there's all kinds of places I can go with this, what I chose to do and you know, you can do this on your computer really easily once you scan these things. I thought well I can reduce it or I can make the image much bigger and I can put it in colored paper. So I've got lots of sort of raw material to start my design with and then it's a matter of sort of cutting and pasting and moving things around. Now the reason why I do this here and not on a computer so much is because here you have more control of real size. And a computer it's going to look like the size of your screen no matter what you do and here you get more of a sense of the tactility of it and the actual scale of things. And I need that hands on, that hands on thinking so you know, I would be cutting these apart and mixing them back up. I would be putting them you know this for example is, comes in the center so I would be turning these around so that in fact let's see, so that we, we start to develop anther pattern. If these are turned around you get this shape here instead of this medallion shape you can have this shape here. Let me see if I can."