Pattern Pulp

Start Creating Patterns: Your First Exercise




Pattern Studio is divided into sections – experimental mark making, workbook prompts and an artist resource library. The section pictured above is all about rolling your sleeves up, getting off of your phone, and exploring your surroundings with a new set of eyes and a mark-making tool in hand.

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Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing some prompts on Pattern Pulp’s design feed. Today we’ll kick off with this early morning exercise:

Every time you take a shower, new condensation patterns appear in the form of drips and droplets on the bathroom tiles and door. Once you’ve dried off, grab your camera and snap a shot before it fogs up and evaporates. Copy the intricate pattern onto a piece of paper – or into your Pattern Studio book.

Once you’re done, we’d love to see it! Take a picture and share it with us on instagram via #mypatternstudio!

 

October 14, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

Do It: Sketching while Traveling




Next time you’re a passenger in a car, on the train, in an plane, or simply walking about, take a sketchbook and a fat black marker along with you. Carve out some time to focus on something spectacularly ordinary – a broken brick, an awkward divot in the sidewalk, a beautiful asymmetrical flower, the window grid of the office building across the street…the clouds in the sky.

Draw it. Draw it again. One more time.

Keep at it, until you’ve filled the page and have a few angles that look interesting. Before you know it, you’ll have enough material to weave a themed pattern together from your sketch.

When you’re done, we’d love to see it…share on #mypatternstudio. Also…for more prompt ideas, please do visit My Pattern Studio where you can pick up a book and challenge yourself to 49 more exercises!

 

October 14, 2016 | By: Shayna Kulik

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