Chapter 4 - Drawing patterns

I chose several of my animal patterns from my initial research, trying to choose a range of different types rather than limit myself to just one section of the animal world. I enlarged these on the computer, printed them out in grey-scale and then picked out interesting sections of the images to draw.

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Fig. 4.5

 

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Fig. 4.7

 

Fig. 4.8

 

Fig. 4.9

I have to say that the lizard in Fig. 4.8 is by far my favourite and I couldn't resist stitching a piece of needle-lace from the drawing I made of his cheek - just a couronne with lots of picots worked in perle 8 thread. Very quick to do but effective and great fun.