Grids for Paintings: Concentric Circles

Video Transcript

"You can also do a grid as a radial pattern. In other words, start with a circle. And there are a lot of things happening with concentric circles and so on. So I'm going to show you how to do a basic one. You've got to have a compass for this and the first thing I've done is establish my circle. Now I'm going to keep this at the radius point. I'm going to go up to the top and I'm going to make a mark and just then take that as my base and put the next marks so what's happening is I'm dividing this evenly, we hope. OK, so let me mark those so that you can see where they are. I've marked those and I've divided this equally into six. And you can keep going with this so that you can end up with, this is basically a pie chart where we're at right now. You can keep going with this. You can sort of eyeball the middle between these two points and you can make your next group of marks and continue around the square that way so that we have this mark here and here and here and here and here and here. And you've divided it again and you start creating, this is the pizza pie and each of these, you can see that this one got a little off, so my eyeballing was bad on that one, but you can see that here is where you're going to put your motif. And who knows, maybe it's going to be a circle."