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Sally Sets Forth

Sally Sets Forth is my personal blog about new artwork, textile and surface design, creative inspiration, work in progress, travel, nature, and life.

Cityscape pattern, painted in gouache

Daily pattern painting challenge (part 3)

Sally Cummings February 26, 2019

Just a little flashback to last year, when I was taking part in a daily pattern painting challenge on Creativebug. I've previously posted about the work I created during the first two weeks, which consisted of traditional and botanical themed patterns. The third week was shape-based patterns, and I wanted to share some of the patterns that I painted here on my blog.

Geometric shapes pattern, painted in gouache

Painting shapes is a great way to improve your painting technique - you can go with a fun, relaxed style, or choose to ramp up your perfectionist tendencies and aim for straight lines and perfect curves. I did a bit of both I think :)

I really enjoyed this daily painting challenge. It pushed me to explore gouache in more detail than I had before, and I was very happy for that because it's now one of my favourite mediums. It also boosted my portfolio of work - several of the patterns I painted during this challenge have already become designs in my Society6 store, and others have provided starting points for further work.

Rainbow pattern, painted in gouache

I love a good daily creative challenge, and have taken part in several more since finishing this one. You can see what I'm up to on a regular basis on my Instagram account, and I'll be writing more blog posts about it in future too.

In new work, creative life Tags creative challenge, new work, painting, gouache, pattern
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