a little lime

My experimentation with  Knyt Pattern  created by Lyndel Churchill I found that whilst working on the first drawing, I struggled a little bit in making Knyt flow like I wanted it to and had to change my approach. I ended up drawing it in the same way that I work with Mi2- which is to draw a single directional greylead line and then freehand from there. Much easier for me to draw it like this, and as maybe there are others whose brain works like mine (a little dysfunctional!), Lyndel has kindly given me the o.k. to post this alternative method for drawing her pattern, so here it is:

Video for scrolled feather - the sound quality is not good (I do not lisp, and I'm sure my voice does not sound like that!) Hopefully you can understand me and my very Aussie accent. I also had a bit of a play with the pattern and came up with a few variations of the theme. Also, along the way, created a new pattern from the basic structure.

I often use Finery on the more graphic drawings that I do, it works so well for long skinny shapes like leaves. When I was drawing "Growing Tube" I changed it around a bit by adding a curved, blacked out bit under every 2nd line. On "Pinwheel3" I played around a bit more by alternating the s-shapes, and adding the curved black shape under every line to round them off more. Really liked how it looks like petals on a strip of ribbon. Here's the steps if you would like to do something similar, just click on the image to enlarge :) hx

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Feather instructions: Note: direction of the curly brackets and scrolls, as well as giving the feather centre a good curve are important for this one to look right, so it is a little fiddly. I prefer it in greyscale rather than colour.