Directional
“Directional” is a Tangled Line Art piece based on an outline of Tessellating Arrows.
Along with all things ‘pattern’ and ‘geometrical’, I am also fascinated by Tessellations, geometric or otherwise. A tessellation is “an arrangement of shapes fitted together to create a repeating pattern without gaps or overlapping”. The most well known component of Tessellations is M. C. Escher. To look into M.C. Escher artworks further, do a Google search for M.C. Escher. This will result in a myriad of sites well worth spending some time on.
After all, the housework will still be there tomorrow 🙂
I first started looking at Tessellation from a quilting point of view. I wanted to create a tessellating design in a quilt. Jinny Beyer is a world renown and talented quilter who has written a book on creating tessellations specifically in relation to Quilting. If you are interested in this book, you can preview and or purchase it from Amazon at this address. Quilting Designing Tessellations – The secrets of Interlocking Patterns. Please note that I am not affiliated with Jinny Beyer nor Amazon in any way, I simply love her work and her books and cannot recommend Jinny and her books highly enough. After reading Jinny’s book from cover to cover, I completed the quilt ‘Horses Heads’ from one Jinny Beyer’s patterns. It was quite an intricate quilt to piece however I am really happy with the results. The completed quilt is approximately 35″ x 35″.
“Tessellations” in Tangled Line Art
Tessellations typically begin with a shape that can be drawn side by side without any gaps or overlaps. As an example a square, a rectangle, a triangle etc. would be considered tessellating shapes. A circle would not be a tessellating shape. That shape is then manipulated in various ways to create more detailed/intricate ‘tessellating shapes’. Jinny’s book goes into great detail about how to create tessellating patterns. There are multiple examples and illustrations to make it easy to understand and follow along.
I took this concept to create a ‘geometric tessellation’, “tessellating arrows”. The tessellating arrows began as a simple square. I was then able to use this comparatively simple outline (pictured right) and use it a basis to create ‘Directional’.
Yes, I know I was going to do the next piece in my ‘Clock Face’ series :). I haven’t forgotten about that! Really, I haven’t… I just had to finish this piece because, well, that’s just what I had to do 🙂