Inspiration Avenue: Patterns

This week, Maggie (Magpie) asked us to use patterns in our Inspiration Avenue art. I got to thinking a lot about how I would interpret that challenge.


At first I considered repeating or recurring patterns, like in the wood piece above. Then I thumbed through some magazines and stumbled on more recurring images that displayed patterns of their own. This was like having a two-fold pattern. Next, I even considered repeating a single image on a block of wood, like a heart that was colored differently for each image.

But in the end, I did a tongue-in-cheek play on words entry.



Yes, this is on a 12 X 12 X 1 inch block of wood. I started by laying down gesso, over which I laid dress patterns in the still wet gesso. When the flimsy dress patterns were dry, I added the photos from the front and back of the pattern package. The front is above, shot in my craft room in natural light.


The back of this piece is also shot in my craft room in natural light.


And here it is scanned. The colors are much truer in natural light, but the resolution is better in the scan.

Don't forget to drop by Inspiration Avenue and see how others interpreted this fun challenge.