Video: Grids for Paintings: Alternating Patterns

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Alternate painting grid patterns to create interesting designs. Learn how to use alternating grid patterns to create images in this free art lesson video from an art instructor.

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Then in my next row I can do one of two things. I can keep doing negative or I can go back to positive. Well, if I go back to positive where my triangle is the black, my big triangle is the black, if I keep doing that I'm just alternating. And that's OK, you know, alternating's good. But I might just shake it up a little bit more by not doing it even. So instead of alternating, I've alternated a couple of times. But I would decide that the rest of these are going to be where the big triangle is the positive space or the black. And I'm just going to have these two rows of negative. And all of a sudden I have a sort of an interesting design. And you know that's how we get these things, we play around with the different ideas. So here it is a smaller version finished where I've just changed these two rows. I've flipped them around. I've got the white big triangles instead of the black big triangles and I have something more interesting going on and it's still working within the grid. It gives you a place to be but then you start fiddling around inside.

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Grids for Paintings: Alternating Patterns

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