Video: Grids for Paintings: Pattern Increments

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Modify a design by changing up a grid. Learn how to offset grid patterns to create images in this free art lesson video from an art instructor.

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Another way to modify your design is to offset the grid. You can think of it basically as building a brick wall where you have each line and we can do this for this way for the brick wall. You don't want, you want to offset the next row of bricks. So that's what we're going to construct. I'm going to show you first how you do that. You've got, here we've got the verticals are all even. It's the horizontal lines that we want to offset. So what I have done is I've marked this off not into these, I've marked them off into these increments so that I have my squares. So I'll just mark those so I have this. However, on some of them I want to offset so I also have the square. What I'm going to do is on every other one I'm going to emphasize that. So I've marked them actually into, rather than having one, two, three, four, five spaces, I'm going to end up with ten, marking off ten along the side. So then the next one is going to make this square here, and the next one will make this square here. OK, and then when you do your triangle motif, you're going to end up with a line of triangles going down the row like this. And another line of triangles that are sort of in a different place, so you can get this rhythm of sort of up and down in a way. So it kind of goes up and down.

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Grids for Paintings: Pattern Increments

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