Whenever I create a pattern or a texture, I always pay close attention to the smallest details. Whatever it may be – splash motive, spray can effect, floral pattern and so forth – I try to avoid obvious repetition and make it look as random and asymmetrical as possible.
This is one of the reasons of me preferring hands-on techniques to exclusive computer editing. The way the paint flows on the paper as I lift it, or how it gets soaked in by the texturised aquarell paper when I keep adding water just cannot be mimicked by a program.
As for my ‘Plant Power’ collection, I used organic leaf stencils. Each and every one of them was hand-made by me and I truly enjoyed every minute of the messy process. I am certain that without nature’s help I couldn’t do such a detailed and diverse pattern.
The last step in the process, however, was computer editing in order to tame a wild mess of leaves. For some designs I organised the pieces by colour and placed them next to each other accordingly. For the all-over pattern though I just tried to be non- repetitive even though I had a limited amount of pieces to cover a wide surface with. Despite the fact that I used every leaf more times, I placed all of them individually on my virtual art board avoiding repetitive coupling so the whole design appears to be random as I like it to be.
art from scratch 