Sunday 21 July 2013

T for Tessellated

It's letter T this week in the Craft Barn's alpha challenge

Had a look through the dictionary and decided on Tessellated.....now what to actually tessellate......well I thought of Escher but decided fish etc. were a little too ambitious......and then I had a brainwave to use the letter T itself.

I cut out some little letter T's using some graph paper and experimented in getting them to tessellate, then I used one as a template to draw them on to the page, I had painted the page with Cool Peri paint dabber as a base to start off with as well.

Anyway getting the letter T to tessellate isn't as easy as you might imagine, I tried to copy the pattern I had made with my graph paper T's but then ran into a few problems which resulted in a lot of rubbing out and rearranging, finally I just about managed to fill up both pages - phew!!

I then drew over my pencil lines with a fineliner. I then drew and coloured a few of the T's and then I used a black OHP pen on the ones around the edge.



13 comments:

  1. "T" tessellated, fabulous - BJ

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  2. What a fabulous way to fill your dictionary page, I love it - and I bet no-one else does this word!! Really like this a lot.

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  3. Wow, amazing, before I saw your word I thought it was T for Tetris!!! :)

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  4. such a clever idea...love your word and what an excellant way to interpret the word

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  5. Cool page and I can imagine even after planning how frustrating it was to still have to adapt the design once you laid it down on the pages. Still you have done a teriffic job on this one with all you 'T' tessellations.

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  6. Great idea to tessellate the T - lovely!!

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  7. Fab choice of word and such clever pages!

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  8. Brilliant word, so original! So much work but your pages look amazing:)
    Val x

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  9. How creative! Love the piece you created.

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  10. May be I'm a sad case but I used to LOVE colouring tessellated patterns when I was a girl. Your fab T page has taken me right back... MMx

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  11. Excellent word, fabulous page.

    Sylv xx

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  12. Another new word for me (thank you) and a great interpretation. Well done
    Thanks for playing with us at the Craft Barn
    Izzy

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