Wallpaper Groups: Part Five

The final wallpaper groups allow for rotations of 120° (a third of a circle) or 60° (a sixth of a…

Wallpaper Groups: Part Four

This blog post will cover wallpaper groups that have 90° rotational symmetry. They differ in what kinds of reflections and…

One thing I love about patterns is they are not limited to one medium. You can create patterns in almost…

In the summer and fall of 2020 I participated in The Creative’s Workshop offered by Seth Godin and Akimbo, a…

I’ve got three more wallpaper groups for you today! Catch up on Part One and Part Two if you’d like!…

1. Super vibrant colors. Some colors just make me so happy to look at as I paint with them —…

Welcome back! In Part One of this blog series, I described how any 2D repeat pattern can be mapped to…

Georgia O’Keeffe is quoted as describing the New Mexico landscape, where she lived for several decades, as “a painter’s country,”…

Where it all started… In 2009 I was a math major in college trying to find an interesting summer research…

William Justema writes in The Pleasures of Pattern that each pattern designer develops their own shorthand for illustrating flowers, what…