Trencadís(h)

Here is something slightly different, inspired by a recent visit to the Park Güell and various modernist buildings in Barcelona, where Gaudi created a lot of mosaics using ceramic shards. This drawing is not exactly a piece of “trencadís” however, as no physical shards of glazed ceramic were used. Rather it was simply drawn as a whole series of triangles using a new (to me) iPad app for vector drawing called Inkpad. In fact this is not even a drawing as such – rather it is an abstract doodle which I hope is nothing more nor less than pleasing to the eye.

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  1. […] pun in the title – here is a further development of the technique that was used for the Trencadís(h) post. Here it is used to depict a type of “tree of life” image. In keeping with the style of […]

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  2. […] of triangles. This follows on from previous attempts at “triangle” pictures Treeangle and Trencadis(h), which is an absorbing (i.e. takes a long time!) approach that gives interesting […]

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