A bit more excavated from the journal:
After this I think (hope, please, please make it so!) that I have curly brackets out of my system.
Bracketed Pattern: This one forms bracket flower shapes in the negative space.
Two ways to draw this pattern..............
First, with a grid. I love me a grid. I like to make/use patterns that don't need pencil lines (that I have to later erase) to keep them on track. If a pattern needs some kind of structure, I want ones where the grid/guide lines form part of the finished design.
Second, freehand. I find some patterns very easy to get into the flow of without a grid. This one works like that for me - I just form the lines in a continuous flowing motion. I have to approach the structure of the pattern differently when working freehand so that the size of the boxes doesn't get all cattywampus. And, oh yeah - don't you just know I've been waiting for ages to find a way to slip that word into a sentence. Hope I used it right because: I. love. it.
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After this I think (hope, please, please make it so!) that I have curly brackets out of my system.
Bracketed Pattern: This one forms bracket flower shapes in the negative space.
Two ways to draw this pattern..............
First, with a grid. I love me a grid. I like to make/use patterns that don't need pencil lines (that I have to later erase) to keep them on track. If a pattern needs some kind of structure, I want ones where the grid/guide lines form part of the finished design.
Some fill ideas, and how it looks with streamlined, skinny brackets and all that lovely negative space just left alone. The negative space........it calls to me, you know?
