Project 6- Patterns

A pattern is a regularity in the natural world, in human-made design, or in abstract ideas. As such, the elements of a pattern repeat in a predictable manner. A geometric pattern is a kind of pattern formed of geometric shapes and typically repeated like a wallpaper design or leaves of a plant.

Preferably your patterns should come from NATURE but I understand if you can't get 10 from nature but try. Also, patterns principle concept is that it REPEATS. If it does not repeat it is NOT a pattern.

 

I am also okay with you taking everyday items like forks, knives and spoons and creating patterns. Go to https://www.pinterest.com/lsocha0927/photography-different-views-silverware/ for more ideas.

Items by Jamie Dudding, Natalie Kinnear and Marco Moroni. Click on the images to see more by that artist.

Jamie Dudding

Natalie Kinnear

Marco Moroni

You can use other items (like food) and create patterns yourself. Caroline South and Emily Blincoe use found objects. 

Caroline South

Emily Blincoe

For this Project you will:
Be aware how all your patterns look together

Find or create 9 different PATTERNS and take pictures of them

You will edit them in LR or PS 

You will POST 9 different pattern with titles for each and choose one pattern to write an artist statement about (why did you choose that pattern, did you find it, search for it,  make it etc) to your new Weebly page Patterns. 

Any series of lines creates a pattern. Look above your head, down at the ground, as well as straight ahead. Try to find subjects that are primarily patterns, not just objects that have patterns on them. So far as possible, have the pattern fill the frame of the photograph.

Try to have nothing in the photograph except the pattern. Remember you can isolate the noise with the lasso tool and use the filter- blur- guassian blur to soften it. Though your assignment is to shoot patterns, you may want to consider some of the other qualities of line as well, such as direction or structure. See if you can add them into a photograph without losing sight of your primary goal. Use these other qualities like shadows and reflections to strengthen the pattern, not to detract from it. 

For example, you may want to use perspective so your pattern recedes into the distance (leading line, depth and vanishing point), suggesting direction. Or you may find a series of small patterns contained in a large one, creating structure. See video below for more subtle patterns found in nature.