Apologies for the gap between blog posts, I've got so much to catch up on! I've been continuing to work on my portfolio, but haven't managed to write about it here for a while. Let's go back to where I last left off :)
My previous blog post was about a pattern painting challenge I took part in earlier this year through Creativebug. In the first week we focused on traditional patterns. The second week was all about botanical and floral patterns.
This was probably my favourite week of the challenge, and it was tough to pick out my top three for this blog post :) I love drawing flowers, but this exercise in painting them was really enjoyable. It was a delight to work in brightly coloured shapes instead of concentrating on linework, and I definitely want to explore it further!
One of the tricky things about taking part in a class-led creative challenge is finding a way to put your own stamp on the designs. For some patterns I didn't stray too far from the example provided, but in others I really enjoyed exploring my own take on the pattern.
The third week went into shape-based patterns, which I'll write about in a (not too distant) future blog post. Talk soon :)