Yeah, I have to say that this is pretty cool.Here, to my left, is an example of what you call a tessellation. A guy that made this famous was named Mauritus Cornelius Escher (M.C. Escher). You can learn more about him in one of my videos posted beloowww (at the end of this blog).
Let's say... How do you make this? Whaaat?
1. Get a square pieces of paper. Fold one of the papers into 4 small squares.
2. On one of the squares (folded), draw a pattern of some sort. On the lightbox, unfold half of it, and turn it so that the pattern you just drew is facing down. Trace the pattern again.
3. Unfold and repeat. I think. Just trace it so that all four sides of the paper have the exact same pattern on it.
I was happy to make this project, I thought it was fun and all that stuff. Making the pattern is the coolest part for me, but I regretted it the next 4 replicas I made after the original one. It's good to have a really cool but then intricate and challenging pattern, but you HAVE to HAVE the patience to make all 6 of them. Unfortunately, I'm not really the most patient person you've met. :( I'm a perfectionist like my mom (sadly.) so I sweat through ALL those tiny details getting the barcode pattern right, coloring in the right places (which I have failed at doing. If you notice, the bottom left tessellation has the red and green coloring switched around.) but the whole process was fun and I would want to do it again. Maybe. I don't know.
It's cool actually, how the reds in the tessellation brighten up with the orange background. (Maybe that's just because of the size of the picture... Hm.) And with the black background, everything kind of lightens up, even just a little.
IF I had to do it ALL OVER AGAIN, I would change:
-The pattern. It looks tile-y to me and it's too hard to make it over and over again.
-Pay more attention to the coloring
ELEMENT OF ART USED:
Harmony(it can be put together), Unity (all connected together), Repetition (the squiggly things in the middle went throuhout most of the tessellation and everything was repeated on each side), Balance (every side had equal amount of shapes and designs), E...
A skill learned in the making of this project was the accuracy and precision of the patterns so everything woudl be good and identical. A job that would use this skill would be a scientist or a mathematician. Another skill was imagination and using a lot of ideas to design the pattern. A job that uses this skill would be a designer of any type, an artist, or a painter.
Since the sound recording isn't uploading or working, what I learned in the making of the tessellation project was the meaning of the word 'tessellation.' It means a collection of figures that fills a plane without overlaps and gaps. Other things I leanred were how to make them and more about M.C. (Maurits Cornelis) Escher, the famous graphic artist who made tessellations famous.
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