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Coloured Tiles
Continuing my fascination with the tiles used to decorate Islamic buildings, I find that my curiosity has got the better of me! You see, in nearly every case these tiles seem to be mainly blue in colour – whether for practical or aesthetic reasons I am not sure – so I decided to see what…
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Weave
So, this is an example of what happens when I really doodle. It starts out as a perfect pattern, but then somehow it screws up – in this case literally! I’m not sure whether this image offers a window into the dark recesses of my psyche or whether instead it is merely the result of…
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Tiles
I have always been rather taken with these symmetrical patterned tiles. I first became aware of them in Morocco, so initially thought of them as “Moroccan” tiles, but then I saw them in Spain as well, so switched to the adjective “Moorish”. More recently I have seen similar tiles in many other countries bordering the…
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Bouncing Ball
I’m not sure that I pushed too many boundaries with this one, but I find it quite relaxing to look at! This image is a doodle in every sense of the word, created as I was exploring what I could do with a new drawing app on the iPad.
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Art Deco III
Having created an Art Deco image for the first time a few weeks ago, and having discovered how satisfying these patterns are to create, it seems pretty inevitable that I will be creating more from time to time. This one is a slightly different format to the last two, both in shape but more importantly…
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Art Deco II
Just as I had expected, having discovered how well suited the vector graphics app is to producing Art Deco patterns, there is no stopping me! Here is a second one, somewhat similar to the first in tone, albeit with an expanded colour palette. I also think I have managed to get a few more of…
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Art Deco
Given how much I like Art Deco, it is surprising that I haven’t tried something like this before. Well in fact I did try something like this a few days ago using paint, but I currently lack either the skill or the technique to get the lines anywhere near straight enough. On the other hand,…
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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…
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Mondrian-esque Family Tree
Another activity with which I while away my hours is genealogy. So it is that, during a moment when my mind was idling (there are of course many such moments!), I came up with the idea of a colour based family tree – that is a relationship chart where the colour of a child would…
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