Outside Inspiration: Paisley Patterns

You know if your poor, over-worked brain ever wants to just play and not have to work, following patterns can be fun and lead to unexpected discoveries.

I ran into this embroidery site and was drawn to these abundantly-colorful paisley patterns. Of course, I couldn’ t help but wonder what they would look like ’embrodiered’ on polymer. We already have artists working in a technique often called by the same term using small bits of clay. So roll out a few snakes you can mince up, a few dots of clay in different colors and go wild. Be sure to share with us what you create.

 

Sage

1 Comment

  1. Ginger Davis Allman on August 31, 2012 at 5:44 pm

    Rather than surface detail, I was thinking how nicely these would work up into component canes. After all, paisley designs often have repeating motifs and sub-motifs.



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