Pattern Play
February 05, 2015
Julie Fei-Fan Balzer plays with patterns....among so much more! She's one talented lady, and for February, she's created a pattern challenge. You can read about it on her blog. Julie's creating a pattern for each day of February, and while I know I'm not going to achieve that, she's encouraging everyone to play when they can.
So, yesterday, I grabbed a sheet of painted, stenciled, and splattered text left over from the previous day's explorations to use as my base. No rhyme or reason to it, just using up leftover bits from the day's work.
Using my very expensive...and wouldn't you want to own one as well?...art tool, I stamped some circles. This particular tool requires you to let go of perfection and embrace the wabi-sabi look, otherwise known as wonky circles in this case. Now, if I had been smart, I would have stamped, etc. before I glued the text to the page. Ah, well, lesson learned, I hope.
I grabbed some stamps...
...and some colored pencils, and used them both.
Vwah-lah! A pattern is born.
A wonky wonderful pattern that makes me smile.
Go check out Julie's site and check out Instagram as well. It's #28patterns.
Lots of eye candy to be sure!
Love it! I've been trying to complete a pattern a day - fun to just play.
Posted by: Bev | February 05, 2015 at 09:12 PM
Great idea to color in the part you stamped with colored pencils! I need to try that! :)
Posted by: Sara Torbett | February 26, 2015 at 09:32 PM