Stripes and beads

What about combining the stripes, with the beads? Maybe in a print? 

Stripey patterns

Intrigued by the stripey patterns, and on the leaves... 

scorpion

Close up of the dead scorpion, being cleaned up by ant's. 

Look at the way the legs are folding up... 

Whip scorpions

Found in the bath downstairs, and released after portraits were taken. Some yummy patterns here, to be used in prints, I hope

spider

Almost interesting... See the whip scorpions

Pattern

Looking out of the aeroplane I realised that there were very interesting found patterns down there that I could probably use for prints or jewellery

Pattern

Reminds me of the kiepersol and the Stellenbosch logo. I feel I can use this for my foil prints

Patterns ... like elephant tracks

White Stinkwood in the morning - like elephant tracks

Elephant track in Imfolozi

First describe then explain ... first the 'what' then the 'why'. Does this mean that each blog post must have 2 paragraphs?

The White Stinkwood tree in front of the house provides perches and food for the birds and our early morning entertainment. We always have coffee and watch the sun rise and how the world wakes up. Staring at the stinkwood I noticed the twigs and the patterns that they make, and like when one stares at clouds and imagines all sorts of creatures, I see all sorts of things in these branches. I once saw a scorpion and it has now disappeared.

I think I knew that elephant tracks are like fingerprints, in that no two are the same and can be used to identify individuals, and Nunu confirmed it. I realised that these track patterns could be used as a reference when designing indigenous jewellery. A way of using elephants without being too explicit, which is one of the aims when trying to develop creative design; go beyond the obvious, beyond the cliche. Nunu then pointed out, to my delight, that the students have their own unique pattern references in the palm of their hands. 

Leaf patterns

Remember the mesopotamian trees



writing this on 20 March 2013... and I can't remember what I meant by the Mesopotamian trees... I think it had to do with carved relief slabs...

mezzotint

My first one.. A bit pale.. And the last one.. Which is bordering on the beautiful.. Thanks to the thicker paper from Jan..